In-House Clinic Applications
Applications for the Spring 2008 In-House Clinic are now
available in the Law Offices, Suite 600, or outside of the
Cafeteria on the 3rd floor. Applications are due into
room 600 on Thursday, November 15 at 5:00. The clinic
is open to students who have completed at least one full
year of law school. Please contact Tracy
Kish if you have any questions.
Spanish Translator
There is an opening for a current Chicago-Kent student
who is eligible for work study. The Advice Desk at the Daley
Center is now hiring a student through a work study program
to work as a Spanish translator for clients who come into
the Advice Desk. The candidate will have an opportunity
to provide translation and administrative support to make
the Desk more readily available to clients who speak only
Spanish and need pro bono legal assistance.
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 Tracy Kish (tkish@kentlaw.edu)
in the Law Offices.
Public Interest Position - Paid Opportunity
There is an opening 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 a paralegal/administrative position.
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 hours for the position are as follows: Monday afternoons
and/or Wednesday afternoons and/or all day Fridays.
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. Pam Kentra (pkentra@kentlaw.edu)
in the Law Offices.
LEGAL EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Do you want to develop your legal skills, get practical
legal experience, see what it is like to work in a corporation,
firm or government agency and -- at the same time -- make
yourself more marketable to prospective employers? If so,
then consider doing a for-credit externship and signing
up for Chicago-Kent’s Legal Externship Program (LEP).
LEP is 4 credit hours, non-graded, and open predominantly
to students in their last three semesters of law school.
Externs interested in civil law may select to work in
such diverse legal areas as immigration, tax, commodities,
securities, health care, medical malpractice, or general
corporate law. Externs in criminal law may choose to work
with the State’s Attorneys Office, Public Defender's Office,
or the U.S. Attorney's Office. Some externships offer the
opportunity to obtain a 711 license and appear in court.
The information about Spring 2008 Legal Externships and
an accompanying application form are available in the Law
Offices reception area (Room 600), in the Career Services
Office, and in front of the Spakateria.
Please e-mail Professor Vivien Gross (vgross@kentlaw.edu)
to set up an appointment for more information about externships.
Spring 2008 Semester: Worker’s Compensation Litigation
Unit, Civil Division, Cook County State’s Attorneys Office
Exciting opportunity with the Worker’s Compensation Litigation
Unit of the Cook County State’s Attorneys Office, Civil
Division. The extern will assist in those matters and cases
leading to and currently in litigation. Students who are
eligible for a 711 license will also have the opportunity
for in-court experience.
If you are interested, please contact:
Mr. Curtis A. James
Assistant State’s Attorney
312/603-5691
Spring 2008 Semester: Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated
Mothers (CLAIM)
CLAIM is a nonprofit agency that represents and advises
incarcerated or formerly incarcerated mothers at hearings
on child custody, guardianship, and mother-child visitation.
With the consent of the mothers, the agency also represents
guardians of children in the Probate Division. The attorneys
at CLAIM meet with incarcerated women at Cook County Department
of Corrections and, after a thorough intake interview with
each client, decide whether to represent the client, negotiate
or draft legal documents for the client, or simply provide
legal advice.
Extern responsibilities include:
- Meeting with clients at the Cook County Department
of Corrections. Students licensed under Illinois Supreme
Court Rule 711 can meet with clients on their own after
training by CLAIM staff attorneys. Students who are not
licensed will accompany the staff attorney to the Cook
County Corrections Center and do intake interviews.
- Researching client concerns, giving legal advice to
clients after consulting with supervising attorney, making
referrals to appropriate social service agencies and,
if the case does not fit CLAIM guidelines, making referrals
to other legal aid providers.
- Contacting foster care caseworkers or other parties
to obtain information or to negotiate for the client.
- Meeting with formerly incarcerated clients and assisting
in legal services in Child Protection, Probate and Domestic
Relations Divisions.
711 licensed students may also represent clients in Probate
and Domestic Relations Divisions under the supervision of
the staff attorney.
If interested in externing at CLAIM, please send your
resume and cover letter to:
Ms. Zenaida Alonzo
Staff Attorney
CLAIM
Suite 1120
70 East Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60601-5959
In addition, to receive law school credit for Kent’s Summer
Externship Program, please contact Prof. Gross (vgross@kentlaw.edu)
to set up a meeting.
Spring 2008 Semester: Resurrection Health Care
Resurrection Health Care is seeking for-credit legal externs.
Resurrection Health Care (RHC) is the parent corporation
for a comprehensive health care system that provides services
throughout the Chicagoland area through 8 hospitals, a long-term
acute care hospital, 7 skilled nursing and rehabilitation
centers, 4 retirement communities, and numerous community
clinics and health care providers.
Externs can choose to work in either of these areas:
Office of Legal Affairs
Resurrection Health Care
7435 W. Talcott Avenue, #345
Chicago, IL 60631
Externs will work closely with the system General Counsel
and other attorneys and will engage in a broad range of
legal activities, including research and legal analysis,
writing, preparation of legal documents and contract review.
Office of Claims and Insurance
Resurrection Health Care
Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital
1127 N. Oakley Avenue
Chicago, IL 60622
Externs will work closely with systems Claims and Insurance
directors, communicate with outside counsel as needed, and
will participate in case management, discovery, and various
phases of pre-litigation work.
If you are interested, please submit your resume and a
cover letter that specifies (a) the semester for which you
are applying, (b) for which RHC department you are applying,
and (c) which days of the week you would work at RHC, if
known. Please send your materials to Julie Roknich, Assistant
General Counsel, via email at julie.roknich@reshealthcare.org
or to 7435 W. Talcott Ave., #345, Chicago, Il 60631.
Spring 2008 Semester: U.S. Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, Division of Enforcement
The Chicago office of the Division of Enforcement is seeking
externs who will receive law school credit.
The Division of Enforcement investigates and prosecutes
alleged violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC
regulations. Violations may involve commodity futures or
option trading on domestic commodity exchanges, or the improper
marketing of commodity investments. The Division may, at
the direction of the Commission, file complaints before
the agency’s administrative law judges or in the U.S. District
Courts. Alleged criminal violations of the Commodity Exchange
Act or violations of other Federal laws which involve commodity
futures trading may be referred to the Justice Department
for prosecution. The Division also provides expert help
and technical assistance with case development and trials
to U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, other Federal and state regulators,
and international authorities.
Primary duties include conducting legal research, writing
memoranda, aiding in the preparation of court pleadings
and papers in the U.S. District Courts across the nation
as well as in an administrative forum; aiding attorneys
and investigators who are preparing to take investigative
testimony and depositions, working with exhibits, Freedom
of Information Act responses; aiding with the discovery
process and interacting with and/or interviewing customers
or investors with complaints.
To apply, interested students should e-mail a cover letter,
resume and writing sample by Friday, December 7, 2007
to:
Ms. Ava Gould
Trial Team Leader
Commodities Futures Trading Commission
525 W. Monroe Street, Suite 1100
Chicago, IL 60661
agould@cftc.gov
Please notify Prof. Gross (vgross@kentlaw.edu)
if and when you are selected as an extern.
Summer 2008 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 in Room 612
from Carole Ross, administrative assistant to Professor
Gross.
Completed applications must be received at the Office
of the U.S. Attorney by Thursday, December 20, 2007.
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 summer semester
2008 will be available in Room 600 Law Offices reception
area and in the Career Services office in mid-March.
Professor Gross will be happy to answer any questions
you may have about either the Legal Externship Program and/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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