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Family and Friends Day. We will be offering a "Family
and Friends Day" program on Saturday, October 26, from
9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (registration and continental breakfast
from 9:00-9:30). The program is intended to give your spouses,
partners, parents, children, and other important people in
your lives the opportunity to visit the Law School and get
a taste of what you are experiencing as a law student. The
program will include a building tour, one or more mini-classes
showing what goes in in a law school class, and a mock trial.
If you would like to attend, please send an e-mail to Gina
Arquilla (GARQUILLA), our Assitant Director of Student Services,
by October 7, 2002. Please indicate how many people will be
attending with you.
CALI Award Winners for Summer 2002. The CALI Excellence
for the Future Award, sponsored by the Center for Computer-Assisted
Legal Instruction, is given to the student or students who
receive the highest grade in each section of each graded course.
The CALI Award winners for Summer 2002 courses are linked
to this page. Congratulations to all of you who received
the award -- you should be proud of your achievement.
Bar Registration for First-Year Students. First-year
students who plan to take the Illinois Bar Examination after
graduation should register with the Illinois bar examiners.
The registration materials must be postmarked by March
1, 2003. The forms and instructions are available on the
bar examiners' web site: http://www.ibaby.org/.
Although you are not required to register as a first-year
student, the advantage of doing so is that you will avoid
paying a late fee of $250 imposed on those who register at
any point after March 1 of their first year. If you are uncertain
whether you intend to practice in Illinois, you may want to
consider waiting to register and paying the late fee should
you eventually decide to take the Illinois bar exam. The application
form is very comprehensive and requires you to provide a significant
amount of background information, some of which may be difficult
to remember or obtain. I suggest that, if you do plan to register
by the March deadline, you pick up an application as soon
as they are available and begin working on it. If you have
any questions about the application materials, you may call
the Illinois Board of Admissions to the Bar at 217/522-5917.
All information you disclose on the bar registration application
should be consistent with answers to questions on your Application
for Admission to the law school. Please note, however, that
the bar registration application asks for a considerable amount
of information that you were not asked to provide on our Application
for Admission. You only need to be concerned about the consistency
of your answers for questions asked on both forms. You can
amend your Application for Admission, if necessary, by addressing
a letter to me setting forth the details of the omission or
misrepresentation and the reason for it.
First-year students who think they may practice in another
state should contact the bar examiners office in that
state as soon as possible to determine their registration
requirements. Booklets with the addresses and phone numbers
of state bar examiners offices are available for you to consult
in the Registrar’s office and in my office.
July 2003 Illinois Bar Application. Applications for
the July 2003 Illinois bar exam must be postmarked by February
1, 2003. The forms and instructions are available on the
bar examiners' web site: http://www.ibaby.org/.
Please note: Even if you registered with the
bar examiners as a first-year student, you must still file
a final application by February 1. If you did not register
during your first year, you will need a separate application
packet, which contains both the registration application and
the final application. Please be sure that you ask for the
correct application packet. If you have any questions about
the application materials, you may call the Illinois Board
of Admissions to the Bar at 217/522-5917.
The law school sends a “Certificate of Dean of Law School
Proof of Legal Education” to the Illinois bar examiners for
every student who graduates in May, so you may discard the
one included in the application materials. Please be sure
to file an Application for Graduation so that we will know
you plan to graduate in May.
All information you disclose on the bar application should
be consistent with answers to questions on your Application
for Admission to the law school. Please note, however, that
the bar application asks for a considerable amount of information
that you were not asked to provide on our Application for
Admission. You only need to be concerned about the consistency
of your answers for questions asked on both forms. You can
amend your Application for Admission, if necessary, by addressing
a letter to me setting forth the details of the omission or
misrepresentation and the reason for it.
Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE).
The MPRE is required for admission to the bars of most jurisdictions,
including Illinois. The exam is administered in March, August,
and November each year. You may take the exam after you have
completed the equivalent of two full academic years of law
school, i.e., after you have completed two-thirds of the academic
requirements for the J.D. degree. Applications for the next
exam, on November 8, 2002, are available in the Registrar's
office. The deadline for applying for the March exam is October
1, 2002 (the late deadline is October 17).
Joke of the week. Did you hear the one about the cross-eyed
teacher? She couldn't
straighten her pupils out!
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