2011 Schedule of Alumni Activities
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Any Day: "Take a Student to Work"
Invite a student to spend a day shadowing you in your work place, in court or doing what you do. It’s a great opportunity for students to experience different practice areas first-hand.
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Monday, October 10:
Resume Reviews
Sign-ups are currently closed.
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Tuesday, October 11:
Informational Interviews
Sign-ups are currently closed.
Remember My Name: How to Market and Grow a Legal Business
Speaker: Rafi Arbel ‘94, President of Market JD (www.marketjd.com)
12:00–1:00 p.m.
Room 370
Be competitive in the marketplace by learning how to market yourself and your firm or organization, and get tips on growing a business, whether as a solo practitioner or in an established firm.
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Wednesday, October 12:
Mock Interviews
Sign-ups are currently closed.
Making ConneKtions Work for You: Hiring @ Chicago-Kent
8:00–9:00 a.m.
Room 305
RSVP to alums@kentlaw.edu or (312) 906-5240 by Monday, October 10.
Alumni interested in obtaining Chicago-Kent students through the Access2Practice Externship Program or interested in hiring students as law clerks or interns can come and learn what to look for in a potential hire and how Chicago-Kent students can enhance your practice. Presented by the Career Services Office, Alumni Association, and the Access2Practice Legal Externship Program.
Chicago-Kent Alumni in Bar Association Leadership: A Speaking Panel
3:00–4:00 p.m.
Room 210
Meet and listen to Chicago-Kent alumni who are leaders in local, state and national Bar associations and how these associations can help you as a student and in the future.
Panelists:
John Locallo ’86, President of the Illinois State Bar Association
Gregg Garofalo ’99, ISBA Young Lawyers Division and Justinian Society
Catherine Battista ’05, Kane County Bar Association
Alumni-Student Networking Reception
5:30-7:30 p.m.
10th Floor Event Room
RSVP to alums@kentlaw.edu or (312) 906-5240 by Friday, October 7.
Help students hone their networking skills and give them practice in how to “work a room”!
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Thursday, October 13:
CANCELLED: Social Media, Doing Good and the Job Search
12:30–1:30 p.m.
Room 370
Hosted by the Chicago-Kent Young Alumni Council
This event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Symposium on Women's Legal History: A Global Perspective
Thursday-Friday, October 13-14, 2011
IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, 565 W. Adams St., Chicago, IL 60661
Professor Sarah Barringer Gordon of the University of Pennsylvania will deliver the keynote address on "Holy War: Women, Courts and Religion in the 1980s" at 5:00 p.m. on October 13. Panelists for the two-day symposium include legal scholars, historians, and women's studies scholars from the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom. The symposium is co-sponsored by Chicago-Kent’s Institute for Law and the Humanities and the Chicago-Kent Law Review.
For more information, contact Professor Felice Batlan at (312) 906-5341 or fbatlan@kentlaw.edu.
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Friday, October 14:
Cool Tools 2: Gadgets you can use for practice on the go
9:00-10:00 a.m.
10th Floor Reading Room
RSVP to alums@kentlaw.edu or (312) 906-5240 by Wednesday, October 12.
Chicago-Kent Librarians will show you the latest apps for productivity and legal research for Kindle, Android phones, iPhones, and iPads.
They will also demonstrate tools for computing in the cloud, specifically how you can use Google’s many services like Gmail and Google Apps to access your work and messages from anywhere.
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