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Fall 2009 In-House Clinics

All new Law Offices In-House clinic students must attend the orientation meeting on Monday, August 24, 2009 at 4:00 in room 510. Students who have taken the Law Offices before do not need to attend this meeting but must pick up a handbook from the receptionist in the Law Offices.

Here is the schedule of when you will meet with your supervising attorney for the first time.

Richard Gonzalez - after orientation, Room C35

Richard Kling - after orientation, Room 581

Jon Decatorsmith - after orientation, Room 601

Ed Kraus - after orientation, Room 627

Rhonda de Freitas - after orientation, Room 470

Dan Coyne - after orientation, room 635

Natalie Brouwer Potts - after orientation, room 370

Laurie Leader - Tuesay at noon, Room 635

Barrett/Engel (IP Clinic) - TBA

 
Externships

Please visit Chicago-Kent's Record website to view all available externship positions.

 

Law Offices Attorneys Help Free Innocent Man

On January 8th, 2008, Professor Richard Kling and his Law Offices Colleague, Susana Ortiz, saw victory in the case of their client, Herb Whitlock. Mr. Whitlock, of downstate Paris, Illinois, was wrongfully incarcerated on murder charges for over 20 years and thanks to the efforts of Professor Kling and Ms. Ortiz and teams of Law Offices clinic students who have been working on the case for the past 7 years, Mr. Whitlock saw freedom when the State dismissed the charges against him as a result of a new trial obtained for him by Kling and Ortiz. In the Appellate Court opinion which granted Mr. Whitlock a new trial, the Court cited the fact that favorable evidence was hidden from the defense and that Mr. Whitlock’s trial counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate key forensic evidence that would have shed serious doubt on the credibility of the State’s witnesses. After his release, Mr. Whitlock was reunited with his daughter, Brittany, who was 12 at the time of his original trial and he met his seven-year old grandson for the first time. Read the article from the Chicago Tribune. CBS television show 48 Hours Mystery ran a show about this case on March 1, 2008. For more information about this show, please visit the CBS 48 Hours Mystery webpage.


Law Offices Professor Admitted into U.S. Supreme Court

On January 7, 2008, Professor Daniel Coyne was admitted on motion in open court before all nine justices of the supreme court in a group admission ceremony. The admission was sponsored by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. There were ten admittees from various jurisdictions across the country. Immediately following the admission, the death penalty case of Baze v. Rees was argued. Baze challenges the propriety of the use of lethal injection to execute condemned inmates.



 

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