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In addition to her dedication to her profession, Maggie has donated time as a pro bono Appellate Attorney in her capacity as Board member of FACDL-Miami. As co-chair of the Amicus Brief Committee, she was responsible to represent the FACDL-Miami lawyers’ and their clients’ interests when complex legal issues threatened due process rights and criminal procedure rules.

Maggie is a Past President of AILA-South Florida (the local American Immigration Lawyers Association).  She was a member of the Board from 2013 to 2021 and continues to hold leadership positions within the local South Florida Chapter as well as with AILA National.  She has spoken at various continuing legal education seminars on various topics including Post-Conviction Relief, Notario Fraud, Immigration Court Practices, The Categorical Approach, Immigration Bonds, Litigation of Asylum and Convention Against Torture cases, & Immigration Consequences of Criminal Conduct.

Maggie Arias specializes in criminal and immigration defense and represents a number of clients who face the possibility of deportation as an added consequence to their criminal charges; Maggie has been able to successfully negotiate plea agreements for many clients that have allowed them to remain in the United States in spite of their criminal conviction.

As an authority on criminal and immigration law, Maggie serves as a frequent panelist in Continuing Legal Education courses on Padilla-related motions, basic and complex immigration defenses and general immigration consequences of criminal activity. Maggie is available as a consultant to clients and attorneys seeking to understand how an arrest, plea, criminal conviction, or even the dismissal of a criminal charge or charges, impacts the immigration status stemming from criminal offense allegations.

Maggie brings her tenacious and aggressive style to defending the rights of the criminally accused and of immigrants facing deportation. It is Maggie’s personal and professional mission to provide quality legal representation so that clients may make informed decisions about their cases.

Apart from her life as a lawyer, advocate and representative, Maggie is married and has two children. She loves to read non-fiction (and some fiction, occasionally), exercise, and enjoys good, clean eating. Maggie also teaches yoga, a talent she discovered when she endeavored to learn everything she could about the practice of yoga and meditation in 2010.  She is a certified Vinyasa Yoga instructor and continues to study the practice of yoga regularly to maintain her certification and provide the latest in yoga trends.