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The Program in Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (LADR) provides a
comprehensive legal education with a concentration in litigation and alternative methods
of resolving disputes. Both day and evening students may apply to the program in the
spring of their first year.
Students in the program learn traditional doctrinal and case analysis along with the
theoretical and ethical foundations of law, and receive comprehensive training in legal
research and writing, trial skills, negotiation and mediation, and clinical education.
To earn the Certificate in Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, students must
successfully complete a series of courses that includes alternative dispute resolution,
jurisprudence, evidence, pre-trial litigation, trial advocacy, and in-house clinic. Click here for specific details.
Students in the LADR program receive their in-house clinical education in the Law Offices of Chicago-Kent, the College of Law's acclaimed teaching law firm. Students may choose to intern in one of the in-house clinics under the supervision of a clinical
professor.
Thirty students are admitted to the program each year. Upon completion of the program,
students will be eligible to become research fellows at Chicago-Kent. Each year, no
more than three graduates of the LADR program will be selected as one-year research
fellows on the basis of their academic performance at Chicago-Kent. These research
fellows may be eligible to receive stipend support to spend an additional year at Chicago-Kent refining their skills as lawyers.
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