Public Interest Position - Paid Opportunity
There are at least two openings for current Chicago-Kent
students who are eligible for work study. The Advice
Desk at the Daley Center is now hiring students through
a work study program to work in paralegal/administrative
positions. The candidates will have an opportunity to work
in a fast-paced, public interest environment while helping
to provide administrative and paralegal help to make the
Desk more efficient and therefore allow more clients to
receive pro bono legal assistance. Some of the duties might
include: greeting and identifying eligible clients, filling
out or updating forms, database entry and maintenance, assisting
elderly and disabled clients in retrieving their court files
or finding a courtroom, etc.
The Advice Desk provides interviewing, counseling, and
limited representation to indigent defendants who seek assistance
at the Circuit Court of Cook County. Approximately sixty
percent of the cases involve eviction defense and forty
percent involve tort, contract, personal injury and collection
matters.
This position pays $10 an hour. You must be eligible for
work study and your eligibility will be verified upon receipt
of your application. Please submit a letter of interest
to Prof. Ed Kraus
in the Law Offices.
Advice Desk - Paid Opportunity
There are openings for current Chicago-Kent students who
are eligible for work study and have successfully
completed at least one semester of Advice Desk. We
are hiring students through a work study program to work
in legal intern positions. The candidates will have an opportunity
to work in a fast-paced, public interest environment while
helping provide pro bono legal assistance to indigent clients.
This position pays $12 an hour. You must be eligible for
work study and your eligibility will be verified upon receipt
of your application. Please submit a letter of interest
to Prof. Ed Kraus
of the Law Offices.
JUDICIAL EXTERNSHIPS: SPRING 2006 SEMESTER
SECOND YEAR APPLICANTS MUST HAVE A CURRENT MINIMUM G.P.A.
OF 3.28.
THIRD YEAR APPLICANTS MUST HAVE A CURRENT MINIMUM G.P.A.
OF 3.36.
Informational Meeting
On Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 12:00 p.m. in Room
580, there will be a meeting for all students who are
interested in externing for a federal appellate, district,
or magistrate judge and for the Illinois Appellate Court,
First District, for the Spring 2006 Semester. Professor
Vivien Gross will describe the kinds of experiences a judicial
extern will have in the course of a semester, as well as
how to apply. If you are interested in a judicial externship
but are unable to attend the meeting, please see Professor
Gross in Room 617.
A judicial externship enables a student to become involved in particular legal problems through research and drafting opinions. Depending upon the judge, an extern may have the opportunity to observe the day-to-day routine of a judge and discuss with the judge and the judge's law clerk those legal problems which attorneys face in their profession, and the specific problems which attorneys confront in their courtroom. Take advantage of this prestigious learning opportunity while enhancing your marketability in the legal world!
Application Process
The applications for Spring 2006 Judicial Externships
will be available both in the Law Offices Reception Area
(Room 600) and in the Career Services Offices
as of Monday, September 19th.
Completed applications should be submitted to Ms.
Carole Ross, Secretary to Professor Gross, Room 612, Law
Offices, by Thursday, October 6, 2005, at 5:00 p.m.
EXCITING OPPORTUNITY FOR 3Ls
SPRING 2006 SEMESTER: EXTERNSHIPS WITH U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE,
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
If you are interested in exposure to and possible participation in federal trial and appellate practice while assisting the U.S. Attorney’s Office in handling its multitude of important cases, please pick up an application from Professor Gross in Room 617.
Completed applications must be received at the Office of the U.S. Attorney by Monday, September 26, 2005. 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 Externship Program. The law school’s externship applications for spring semester, 2006, will be available in mid-October 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.
For a complete description of all clinical programs, please
visit the Law Offices' Home Page at http://www.kentlaw.edu/academics/clinic.
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