Adding and Dropping Classes.
You may add an open course without special permission until the end of the first
week of Spring classes; during the second week, however, you may add an open course
only with permission of the instructor. You may not add a course after the second
week of the semester. You may withdraw from any course except a required course,
a clinical course, Law Review, Moot Court, or Intensive Trial Advocacy at any
time prior to the date of the final exam or final paper (see §3.10(c) of the Student
Handbook). There is no tuition penalty if you drop a course during the first two
weeks of classes. You will not receive a tuition refund, however, if you drop
a course after the second week of classes.
U-Pass Distribution.
If you have not yet picked up your Spring U-Pass, you may do so from the Registrar's
office. For more information on the U-Pass program and which students qualify
for participation in the program, see the
U-Pass
FAQ. If there is no U-Pass for you but you believe you qualify for one, please
contact Jenna Moroney (jmoroney@kentlaw.edu).
Legal Writing Ethics Guidelines.
This is a reminder that the Chicago-Kent Legal Writing Ethics Guidelines apply
to all Chicago-Kent students, including students enrolled in upper-level writing
courses (Legal Writing 3, Legal Writing 4, and all seminars). The Guidelines,
which address a variety of issues, including plagiarism, are available by
clicking
here. If you have not reviewed the Guidelines recently, please do so.
Notice
to Students in Substance Abuse Recovery (or who want to be). If you are in
recovery for a substance abuse problem, or if you are not in recovery but would
like help with a substance abuse problem, consider contacting the Lawyers Assistance
Program. This confidential program exists to help lawyers, judges, and law students
with alcohol abuse, drug dependency, or mental health problems. If you are already
in recovery, there is a weekly A.A. meeting at LAP's Chicago office, Tuesdays
from 12:15-1:15 pm, at 20 S. Clark Street, Suite 1820. If you would like to be
put in contact with other members of the Chicago-Kent community who are in recovery,
call Janet Voss, the director of LAP, at 312/726-6607. If you are not in recovery
but would like to find out more about what LAP can do for you, call or stop by
LAP's office, or go to their web site at
http://www.illinoislap.org.
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 submitted by
March 1, 2008.
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 additional fees of $350 or
more if you apply to take the bar at any point after March 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 begin working on the materials sooner rather
than later. 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 2008 Illinois Bar Applications. Applications for the July 2008 bar
exam must be submitted by
February 1, 2008. You may file a late application
for the July bar up to May 31, but substantial penalty fees apply. 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. 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 December or May. Please be sure to file an Application
for Graduation so that we will know you plan to graduate in either December or
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 two-thirds of the credits
required for the J.D. degree (at Chicago-Kent, this means you must have completed
58 credits). You may register online by going to
http://www.ncbex.org/multistate-tests/mpre.
The deadline for applying for the March exam is January 29, 2008 (the late deadline
is February 14).
Academic Calendar for 2008-2009. The academic calendar
for next academic year (2008-2009) is
available
here.
Weather Closing Information. Flyers with information about
emergency weather closings are available on the table outside the third-floor
cafeteria. As explained in the flyer, you may find out whether the Law School
is closed due to severe weather in any of the ways listed below.
Please note:
Information for the Law School will be listed under "IIT-Chicago-Kent College
of Law."
Radio: WGN 720 AM; WBBM 780 AM.
TV: CBS 2,
NBC 5, ABC 7, WGN, Fox News Chicago, CLTV News.
Phone: 847-238-1234 (use Kent's
phone number, 312-906-5000, as the school ID).
Online: http://www.EmergencyClosings.com.
(You may also sign up for personalized e-mail notifications at this site.)