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C-K LAW GROUP
SUMMER AND FALL 2021
The deadine for summer 2021 applications has passed but
you could still apply to get onto a waiting list or a potential
limited opening. Fall applications are available
online; the due date has not yet been set.
MEDIATION CLINIC RECOGNIZED
The National Jurist PreLaw Magazine listed Chicago-Kent
among the top schools for ADR Programs both last year and
again this year!
Students in the Mediation/ADR clinic continue to mediate
all types of legal disputes during the zoom court calls
and are becoming experts at navigating the challenges of
online mediation.
BLOG POST ON CHANGES TO
THE VACCINE INJURY PROGRAM
Staff attorney at the Vaccine Injury Law Project at C-K Law
Group, and Chicago-Kent alumna, Brynna Gang recently wrote
a blog on the growing national press coverage of proposed
changes impacting individuals filing claims in the Vaccine
Injury Compensation Program after suffering shoulder injuries
following vaccination. Brynna works with Clinical Professor
Ed Kraus in the Federal Health Litigation Clinic where they
represent vaccine injured petitioners in the Court of Federal
Claims. Brynna's blog can be found Vaccine Injury Law Project's
website.
BLOG POST ON VACCINE SAFETY
An Overview of Vaccine Safety During the Time of COVID-19:
Staff Attorney, Brynna Gang, who works with Professor Ed
Kraus in the C-K Law Group Federal Health Litigation Clinic,
recently published a timely
blog post with information about the vaccine safety
measures in place in the United States.
JUDICIAL EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM
SUMMER/FALL 2021 SEMESTER
Judicial Externship Program (JEP) is a 4-credit hour Pass/Low
Pass/Fail program open to students who have completed at
least their first full year of law school and want to do
legal research and writing for a federal appellate, district
or magistrate judge or designated Illinois appellate or
circuit court judges.
JEP enables a student to become involved in particular
legal problems through research and writing, and to contribute
to the resolution of those problems by participating in
drafting memoranda and opinions. Depending upon the judge,
an extern may also have the opportunity to observe the judge's
day-to-day
routine and to discuss with him/her the issues and problems
that judges confront. Take advantage of this prestigious
learning opportunity while enhancing your marketability
in the legal world.
Summer Application Process
The deadline for Summer 2021 Judicial Externships has passed
but if you secured your own externship with a judge and
would like to receive credit, you can fill out the application
online
and return it to Suzanne Blaz (sblaz@kentlaw.iit.edu),
by Tuesday, May 4, 2021.
Fall Application Process
The deadline for Fall 2021 Judicial Externships has passed
but if you secured your own externship with a judge and
would like to receive credit, you can fill out the application
online
and return it to Suzanne Blaz (sblaz@kentlaw.iit.edu),
by Monday, August 2, 2021.
For additional information about JEP, you may also refer
to the Law School Website externship
page. If you have any questions about the Program or
the application itself, please contact Professor Vivien
Gross (vgross@kentlaw.iit.edu).
SUMMER/FALL 2021 ACCESS2PRACTICE
LEGAL EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Access2Practice (A2P) Legal Externship is a 4-credit-hour
non-graded program which enables you to extern with a supervising
attorney in a wide variety of legal areas - private or public,
civil or criminal. Externships are available in the Fall,
Spring and Summer semesters. Some public sector externships
enable you to obtain a 711 license and appear in court.
Why Extern?
To become a good lawyer and to supplement what you learn
in the classroom, you need practical experience in real-world
legal work. Most students aren't fortunate enough to receive
a paid clerking position - or even a volunteer opportunity
- that teaches what they want to learn. LEP presents a unique
and important opportunity to gain exposure to an area of
the law in which you are interested and helps you significantly
broaden your future employment opportunities.
Where Can Students Extern?
You select and obtain your own externship. This program
does not assign you to a particular placement. To gain access
to the many available externship placement possibilities,
consult Symplicity.
Students interested in civil law may extern in a wide variety
of public sector or public interest legal places. For example,
some have externed at the City of Chicago Corporation Counsel's
Office, Office of the Illinois Attorney General, Illinois
Commerce Commission, Immigration Court of the U.S. Department
of Justice, Internal Revenue Service, and U.S. and Illinois
Environmental Protection Agencies, Legal Aid Bureau, Chicago
Board of Education, and Equip for Equality.
Students interested in criminal law may extern at the U.S.
Attorney's Office, the Office of the Federal Defender, and
at the offices of the State's Attorney and Public Defender
in Cook County as well as the surrounding counties.
Summer LEP also includes a significant number of private
placements in law firms and in-house corporate legal departments,
whereas Fall and Spring placements are almost exclusively
in the public and not-for-profit areas. These private placements
are supervised by designated alums and both the alum teaching
supervisors and placements have been screened and approved.
Summer LEP placement opportunities will be posted on Simplicity.
Please scroll to Access2Practice: Private Summer for these
special private opportunities.
How to Apply:
Summer and Fall applications are available online
Summer applications are due on or before Monday, May
3, 2021.
Fall applications are due on or before Tuesday, August
3, 2021.
For additional information about LEP, you may also refer
to the Law School Website externship
page.
If you have any questions about the Program or the application
itself, please contact Professor Vivien Gross (vgross@kentlaw.iit.edu).
CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS
C-K Law Group administers three certificate programs: Litigation
and Dispute Resolution (LADR), Criminal Litigation and a
Workplace Litigation and Dispute Resolution LADR) Certificate
Program. These are great programs if you want to get more
exposure to criminal law, litigation and/or employment law
or other experiential learning.
For more information, please visit the Certificate program
website.
You can email Tracy at tkish@kentlaw.iit.edu
if you would like further information.
Applications for these certificate programs are still
available and can be found below:
Litigation
and Dispute Resolution (LADR)
Criminal
Litigation
Workplace Litigation and Dispute Resolution (LADR)
WELCOME TO OUR NEW CLINICAL PROFESSOR
Professor Jamie Franklin, who has been a civil rights litigator
her entire career, joined Chicago-Kent in Summer 2020 as
the supervising attorney in the Civil Litigation Clinic.
Students will practice primarily in federal court, with
some work in state courts, arbitration forums, and government
agencies.
The Clinic operates as a litigation firm, and students
will immediately begin doing substantive work: interviewing
clients, drafting pleadings, preparing discovery requests,
preparing for and attending depositions, researching procedural
and substantive issues, drafting motions and responses,
and formulating strategies for their cases.
Professor Franklin represented a class of African-American
pipefitters who alleged they were barred from jobs by their
union:
https://www.law360.com/articles/1332217
GARY LASER PROFESSIONALISM AWARD
Enrique Espinoza received the 2020 Gary Laser Professionalism
Award! Read
more.
FLEISCHMAN AWARD
Former criminal clinic students Dominica Puglise ’20 and
Adrian Delgado '21 receive 2020 Fleischman Family Awards
for Excellence in Criminal Clinic. Read
more.
INTENSIVE CLINIC
Intensive clinic is a twelve credit, one semester course
in which the students will receive an enhanced, closely
supervised and graded clinical experience and, in addition,
satisfy their senior seminar paper requirement. Intensive
Clinic has the potential to be the optimal means for law
students to transition from law school to the practice of
law in that it provides a natural progression from theory
(doctrinal classes) to simulations to clinic to Intensive
Clinic, where students engage in sophisticated lawyering
activities on a full-time basis for an entire semester,
with a safety net in place. The program will be available
for a select number of senior law students. Each student
enrolled in Intensive Clinic will receive ten graded clinical
education credits and a separate grade of two credits for
writing a paper that will satisfy the Senior Seminar paper
requirement under the close supervision of the clinical
faculty member who selected the student.
Areas of Law: Plaintiffs Employment Law, Civil Litigation,
Vaccine Injury Litigation, Criminal Law, Entrepreneurial
Law, Family Law and Tax Law.
To Apply:
Students will apply to Intensive Clinic via a written
submission detailing their qualifications and their reasons
for seeking admission. This submission will be the basis
for discussion during a subsequent individual interview
with each applicant. Please direct all written submissions
and questions to Tracy Kish at tkish@kentlaw.iit.edu.
IN THE NEWS
Richard Kling, Clinical Professor and supervisor
of the Criminal Defense Clinic in the C-K Law Group has
been interviewed by several news outlets regarding the Jussie
Smollett Case!
https://abc7chicago.com/jussie-smollett-indicted-again-in-connection-with-alleged-chicago-attack/5921989/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-jussie-smollett-charged-again-20200211-4yz44w3y35fghlehlrqd5q74ei-story.html
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/the-rundown-smollett-indictment-nintendo-gaming-lounge-rainbow-cone/2217956/
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/2/11/21133743/jussie-smollett-charged-indictment-update
https://news.wttw.com/2020/02/12/kim-foxx-faces-political-fallout-new-smollett-charges
C-K LAW GROUP NEWSLETTER
View the latest C-K
Law Group newsletter to find out what is currently happening
and hear from students who talk about their clinic experiences.
C-K Law Group Expands Into Cat Law??
Always looking for new and interesting cases, our clinic
now represents Reggie The Cat (or more accurately Reggie’s
owner) in a dispute with an animal adoption agency that
won’t give Reggie back!
We are just happy Professor Gonzalez finally decided on
a specialty!
Article here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-cat-dispute-social-media-20180123-story.html
More In The News
The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin published
an article focusing on the legal writing and clinical
education programs.
Clinical Professor Richard Kling, who supervises the Criminal
Clinic, was interviewed by several news outlets regarding
the verdict in the Van Dyke case. Watch his interview
on WTTW.
Clinical Professor of Law Pamela Kentra, supervisor of
the Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic, explains
a Seventh Circuit decision that could chip away at the private
arbitration system in Crain's
Chicago Business (Need a subscription to view).
Clinical Professor Richard Kling was interviewed by
WGN-TV about the legal bills incurred for Drew Peterson's
legal defense.
Clinical Professor of Law Richard Kling, supervisor of
the Criminal Clinic, is interviewed by CBS
2 Chicago about the special prosecutor appointed in
the Laquan McDonald murder case.
For a complete description of all clinical programs, please
visit the C-K Law Group Home Page at http://www.kentlaw.iit.edu/legal-clinics
For a description of all externship programs, please visit
the Externship home page at https://www.kentlaw.iit.edu/academics/jd-program/practical-skills-training/externships
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