Scholarship Support
Students enrolled in the Program in Labor and Employment Law are
eligible for scholarship support, based on academic performance,
prior experience in labor and employment relations, and financial
need. There are four types of scholarships:
- Named Scholarships, are supported by members of the Institute
for Law and the Workplace. Current named scholarships include:
- CNA Scholarship
- Franczek Radelet
- Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick, & Kohn Scholarship
- Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Scholarship
- Indiana, Illinois, Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting Scholarship
- Laner, Muchin, Dombrow, Becker, Levin, & Tominberg Scholarship
- Littler Mendelson Scholarship
- Louis Jackson Memorial Scholarships (funded by Jackson
Lewis, LLP)
- Management Association of Illinois Scholarships
- Motorola Scholarship
- Burton S. Odelson Fellowship
- Seyfarth Shaw Scholarship
- Stickler & Nelson Scholarship
Law and the Workplace Scholarships: are funded by Institute for Law and the Workplace members, alumnae/i and friends of Chicago-Kent's labor law programs.
Alumnae/i Labor Law Scholarships: are funded by Chicago-Kent
Alumnae/i and awarded to entering first year students with interests
and backgrounds in Labor and Employment Law.
Organized Labor Scholarships funded by labor unions and union
law firm members of the Institute for Law and the Workplace
for students who have ties to organized labor.
Externship Scholarships: are provided to students enrolled
in the labor/employment law externship and are awarded based
on financial need.
For the 2009-2010 academic year, the Institute awarded scholarships
totaling $145,500.
Alumnae/i Mentors
Chicago-Kent's leadership in labor and employment law education
pre-
dates the establishment of the formal certificate program. The
law school
is fortunate to have a strong network of senior alumnae/i and
more
recent graduates who practice in all areas of the law governing
the workplace. This network includes partners and associates in
law firms representing management, labor and employees; in house
labor/employment counsel with corporations, public employers,
and labor unions; employee benefits law specialists; workers compensation
law specialists; and federal and state governmental regulatory
agency staff and officials. Every interested student is matched
with an alumnae/i mentor in the field of the student's interest.
Furthermore, in its brief history, the program has established
a growing network of its graduates in all aspects of labor and
employment law practice.
A Sample of
Employers Who Have Hired Certificate Program Graduates (as of
spring 2001)
Ancel, Glink, Diamond, Bush, DiCianni & Rolek
Arnold and Kadjan
Baum Sigman Auerbach Neuman & Katsaros, Ltd.
Belofsky & Belofsky
Brady Connolly & Masuda
Bryan Cave (St. Louis, MO)
Carmell Charone Widmer Mathews & Moss, Ltd.
Chicago Board of Education
Doh Lones Albertson (Washington, D.C.)
D'Ancona & Pflaum
Edes & Rosen
Fox & Grove
Gardner, Carton & Douglas
G.E. Capital, Inc.
Gorsuch Kirgis (Denver, CO)
Illinois Appellate Court
Internation Union of Operating Engineers Local 150
Jackson Lewis, LLP
Jenner & Block
Katten, Muchin & Zavis
Kirkland & Ellis
Littler Mendelson
Masuda Funai Eifert & Mitchell
McGuire Woods Battle & Boothe
Meckler Bulger & Tilson
Miller, Johnson, Snell & Cummiskey (Grand Rapids, MI)
National Labor Relations Board
National Treasury Employees Union
Scariano Himes and Petrarca Attorneys at Law Chtd.
Seyfarth Shaw
Social Security Administration
Stickler & Nelson
United Airlines
United States Court of Appeals for the
Eleventh Circuit (Atlanta, GA)
VanBourg, Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld (Oakland, CA)
Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz
Walgreens Corporation
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Bentonville, AR)
Weissz & Michling (Woodstock, IL)
Resources In labor & Employment
Law
Endowment Funds
Lawrence Doppelt Endowment, established in memory of Lawrence
Doppelt, a labor law professor at Chicago-Kent, supports an annual
scholarship to a student who has excelled in labor law.
Masters Family Endowment, established by Hon. Edward Masters’72,
-provides support for Institute for Law and the Workplace programs.
Kenneth M. Piper Endowment, established by Mrs. Kenneth
M. Piper,
honors the memory of her husband who was a senior labor relations
executive with Motorola and Bausch & Lomb. The fund supports
the annual
Kenneth M. Piper Lecture.
Stickler & Nelson Endowment, established by the law
firm, Stickler &
Nelson, funds scholarships for students in the certificate program.
Louis
Jackson National Student Writing Competition in Employment and
Labor Law
This national law student writing competition in labor and employment
law is run by the Institute. The competition is sponsored by Jackson
Lewis, a national law firm representing management in the practice
of labor, employment and employee benefits law. The competition
honors the memory of Louis Jackson, a founder of the firm. Each
year, students from across the nation submit essays which are
blind judged by a national panel of law professors. Winning entries
will be published on the Institute for Law and the Workplace
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