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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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