LOTTERY RESULTS - SPRING 2002 IN-HOUSE CLINICS The following students are being offered a place to take Law Offices for Spring 2002. Please send an e-mail to Rosemary Alexander (ralexand@kentlaw.edu) as soon as possible indicating your intention to register for the clinic in which you are listed and the number of credit hours. You will not be allowed to register for any clinical course unless Ms. Alexander receives your correspondence of intention to register. If you decide that you are no longer interested in Law Offices for the spring semester, please let Rosemary Alexander know (Room 616) so she can give the place to a waiting list student.
The Waiting List for Spring 2002 is posted outside Suite 600.
Becoming a lawyer takes more than sitting through three years of law school lectures. It involves more than learning how to cross-examine hostile witnesses, write persuasive briefs, and talk to clients. Reading about subjects such as legal ethics or law practice management is not the same as learning about them from experience. Throughout the LADR program, you will learn legal doctrine, lawyering skills, and professional values, and work in Chicago-Kent's teaching law firm, supervised by clinical professors who are expert practitioners and mentors. You will learn the art of lawyering through two years of intensive skills and clinical training. Your experience will teach you how to become a competent, ethical, and socially responsible lawyer. To learn more about this program, please attend the following Information Meeting - Wednesday, January 30, 2002 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Rooms (to be announced)
APPLICATIONS FOR THIS PROGRAM MUST BE TURNED IN BY FEBRUARY 5, 2002. Please turn in applications to the Receptionist in Room 600.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR 2Ls and 3Ls The Law Offices is seeking a law student eligible for Illinois Supreme Court Rule 711 license to work at the Advice Desk, a pro bono clinical program at the Richard J. Daley Center. Students will gain experience in housing, contract, tort and collection defense work in a high intensity, live-client setting - often referred to as "the 'E.R.' of Law." Eligible students are needed for 24 hours per week and will be paid a rate of $12.50 per hour. Prior experience as a student in the Advice Desk program is a plus, but not required. Interested students should send a resume to Professor Edward Kraus, Law Offices, Suite 600, Chicago-Kent College of Law, 565 W. Adams Street, Chicago, IL 60661, or send e-mail attachment to ekraus@kentlaw.edu.
SPRING 2002 SEMESTER: EXTERNSHIPS WITH
Completed applications must be received at the Office of the U.S. Attorney by Monday, December 10, 2001. The reason for this accelerated date is because each accepted extern must go through a security clearance, which takes several weeks. To receive law school credit for this externship, should you be selected by the U.S. Attorney's Office, you must enroll in the law school's Legal (Advanced) Externship Program. The law school's externship applications are also available in Room 600 Law Offices reception area and in the Career Services office. Professor Gross will be happy to answer any questions you may have about either the Externship Program or the externship position with the U.S. Attorney's Office.
The Justice Web Collaboratory (JWC) Externship provides students the opportunity to explore Access to Justice issues, including the use of technology in legal services, alternative legal services delivery models, e-lawyering and pro se litigant assistance. Students work in conjunction with the Justice Web Collaboratory and its Illinois Technology Center for Law & the Public Interest (ITC), a statewide collaboration of legal services providers, whose mission is to provide low-income individuals with greater access to the legal system through the use of technology. The externship allows students to acquire direct client service experience and to use that experience to assist in the development and upgrading of innovative web resources for pro se litigants and the public. Students will split their time between these two activities and will have the flexibility to choose opportunities that most appeal to them. Students who have computer and web design skills will have the ability to utilize those skills. The direct client service portion of the externship provides students with experience in assisting self-represented litigants and/or providing brief legal services to low-income individuals. Examples of these opportunities include the following:
The development and upgrading of web resources for pro se litigants and the public involves the following activities:
A class will meet on Wednesdays at 4:00 p.m. and will be taught by Professors Gross and Staudt. Four (4) credits will be awarded for the JWC Externship, which requires at least 16 hours per week spent on externship activities. Students can earn additional credit the following semester by arrangement.
PROPOSED REFUGEE LAW EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM
To enroll in the externship, students must submit their resumes to Prof. Gross. Prior immigration law experience is not required. Fluency in a second language is helpful although it is not a requirement for the externship. 4 credit hours Midwest Immigrant Rights Center
FIRST DEFENSE LEGAL AID First Defense Legal Aid (FDLA), the only program of its kind in the country, fills the gap in Illinois' public defender system by providing 24-hour free legal representation to adults and children in police custody or under police investigation. FDLA provides a unique "frontline" criminal defense experience for students, enabling them to see: how evidence is collected and created; the tactics of the Chicago Police Department when trying to extract a confession or question witnesses; the role that the Cook County State's Attorney's Felony Review Team plays during the beginning stages of a criminal investigation; and the utter vulnerability of children and adults when under intensive and sometimes abusive interrogation. In addition to this stationhouse representation, FDLA also works toward the permanent improvement of our criminal justice system by educating the public, organizing community residents to combat police misconduct, by engaging in legislative and community advocacy, investigating patterns of misconduct by the Chicago Police, taking select criminal defense cases to trial, and initiating 42 U.S.C. §1983 litigation to improve the policies and procedures of the Chicago Police as they relate to the treatment of persons in police custody. Students participating in the FDLA class must be eligible for a Illinois Supreme Court Rule 711 license. Students representing FDLA clients at Chicago Police Stations will gain unique insight into the criminal justice system at its earliest stage and be able to: 1. View and Document Line-Ups, DNA testing, and Halt
Lie Detector Tests. Students will be trained to provide legal representation to adults and children under criminal investigation. In addition to a weekly, one-hour class (Mondays from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.), students will be available to represent persons in custody six hours each week and actually go to the police station to represent them. Students will be provided with pagers and FDLA will reimburse transportation expenses. Three supervising attorneys will be available at all times to assist students and provide support. For more information, contact Kate Walz at (773) 826-6550 or kewalz@aol.com .
LOW INCOME TAXPAYERS CLINIC For information on the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic, please visit the new website:
http://www.kentlaw.edu/academics/clinic/tax/
LAW OFFICES OF CHICAGO-KENT The Law Offices of Chicago-Kent offers nine long-standing programs in live-client clinical legal education which accommodate over 150 students in the fall and spring semesters and over 50 students in the summer semester. For a complete description of all clinical programs, please visit the
Law Offices' Home Page at www.kentlaw.edu/academics/clinic.
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