LAW OFFICES IN-HOUSE CLINICS
Applications will be available on Tuesday, November
2. The Law Offices gives students the opportunity to
learn how to practice law under the close supervision of
a clinical faculty attorney - an experience that is available
only in the law school’s in-house clinical programs. The
areas of practice are: Criminal Defense, Employment Discrimination/Civil
Rights with Some General Practice, Health and Disability
Law, Low Income Taxpayer Clinic, Mediation, Immigration
Law, Family Law, the Center for Open Government, and Intellectual
Property
Applications for the Spring semester in-house clinics are
now available in room 600 and on the table outside of the
3rd floor cafeteria.
LEGAL EXTERNSHIPS
LEP 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 for 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.
Students interested in civil law may extern in a wide variety
of 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 US Department of Justice, Internal Revenue
Service, and Environmental Protection Agency, as well approved
in-house corporate legal counsel.
Students interested in criminal law have externed at the
US 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.
Information about Spring 2011 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.
If you would like more information about externships, please
e-mail Professor Vivien Gross (vgross@kentlaw.edu)
to set up an appointment. There are many different types
of opportunities in which you might be interested.
Listed below are some available for-credit externship placement
opportunities:
Summer 2011 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 Monday, January 3, 2011. 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. Externship
applications for Summer 2011 will be available 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.
Spring 2011 Semester: Legal Externship with the William
J. Clinton Foundation
This position provides an opportunity to work with the
Clinton Foundation's Assistant General Counsel in managing
the ongoing legal work of the Foundation on seven initiatives
addressing major global issues including infectious diseases,
climate change, economic development, and childhood obesity.
The Foundation's legal department manages all day-to-day
legal matters, including drafting and negotiating transactional
documents to facilitate relationships with third-party organizations,
businesses, donors and national and local governments around
the world. The department also coordinates and manages relationships
with multiple outside law firms providing both fee-based
and pro-bono legal services ranging from intellectual property
protection matters to international entity formation. The
department provides recommendations to, and strategizes
with, senior management, initiative directors and third-party
planners.
Externs may have opportunities to develop program strategies
and provide recommendations to initiative directors regarding
further expansion of domestic programming in pervasively
poor rural communities in the United States.
Qualifications:
2Ls and 3Ls who have a demonstrated interest in nonprofit
work and/or public service and have a specific interest
in the Clinton Foundation's mission.
To Apply:
Applicants should send a cover letter, resume, and transcript
(unofficial on-line transcript is acceptable) by either
regular mail or email to:
Scott M. Curran
Assistant General Counsel
William J. Clinton Foundation
Suite 4000
111 S. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
scurran@clintonfoundation.org
Application Deadline: Tuesday, November 23, 2010.
If you are selected to extern, please notify Professor
Gross (vgross@kentlaw.edu)
immediately for permission to register for Legal Externship
(4 credit hours).
Spring 2011 Semester: Legal Externship with Legal Affairs
Department, Silliker Group Corporation (For Credit Only)
Silliker Group Corporation is the leading internationally
accredited food testing and consulting network. It is comprised
of over fifty-five laboratories in 16 countries worldwide.
The corporation provides consulting, testing, auditing,
research and training solutions to companies who are searching
for an innovative and reliable service partner.
The Legal Affairs department is in charge of all legal
matters globally for Silliker, including sales support,
mergers and acquisitions, corporate compliance and governance,
and litigation. Some of the items an extern can anticipate
participating in:
- Providing general advice to senior management on legal
implications of business and operational decisions;
- Researching corporate governances issues impacting
global operations;
- Developing tools to promote accountability for legal
and regulatory compliance;
- Provide as needed guidance to other functions, including
Finance, Sales, Operations, and Information Technology;
- Drafting and analyzing a wide variety of commercial
contracts and vendor agreements; and
- Assisting in the management of outside law firms and
legal resources.
Qualifications:
Extern applicants should be 2Ls only and rank in the top
25% of their class.
To Apply:
Applicants should send a cover letter, resume, and transcript
(unofficial on-line transcript is acceptable) by either
regular mail or email to:
Christopher A. McVety
Corporate Vice President of Legal Affairs
Merieux NutriSciences Corporation
Suite 2300
111 E. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60601
chris.mcvety@silliker.com
Application Deadline: Friday, November 12, 2010.
If you are selected to extern, please notify Prof. Gross
(vgross@kentlaw.edu)
immediately for permission to register for Legal Externship
(4 credit hours).
Spring 2011 Semester: Legal Externship with Encyclopaedia
Britannica (For Credit Only)
3Ls Only
Applicants Must Have a Minimum G.P.A. Of 3.23.
Encyclopaedia Britannica was founded in Edinburgh, Scotland
in 1768 and today is primarily a publisher of reference
material distributed in a plethora of languages to individuals,
schools and libraries throughout the world over the Internet.
As a result, much of the work of the Law Department has
to do with intellectual property, its development, protection
and distribution.
The Law Department serves the legal needs of senior management
at the company's world headquarters in Chicago and oversees
the legal functions and compliance requirements of subsidiaries
located in London, Paris, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Taipei, Seoul,
New Delhi and Sydney. The Law Department also provides legal
services to the company's dictionary publishing subsidiary,
Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, headquartered in Springfield,
Massachusetts.
The extern will primarily be involved in drafting legal
documents, particularly amendments to moderately complicated
international trademark and copyright licenses, assist in
ongoing privacy policy audits, and be exposed to strategic
discussions about current litigation dealing with both the
plaintiff and defendant sides.
To apply:
Please submit a resume, transcript and writing sample to
Prof. Gross (vgross@kentlaw.edu)
by no later than Thursday, November 4, at 5:00 p.m.
Do not contact Encyclopedia Britannica directly; your application
will not be considered.
Spring 2011 Semester: For Credit Disability Law Legal
Externship Opportunity
Equip for Equality (EFE) is a private nonprofit, statewide
organization whose mission is to advance the human and civil
rights of people with disabilities. EFE provides legal representation
in individual cases and engages in impact litigation and
public policy advocacy seeking systemic change. Externs
can work in one of three programs: (1) Special Education
Clinic assisting families with obtaining the education
and support that their children with disabilities need;
(2) Abuse Investigation Unit investigating abuse
and neglect of people with disabilities and providing individual
assistance and advocating for systemic change; and (3) Community
Living Team representing people with disabilities
on a wide range of issues, including discrimination, community
integration and self-determination.
Interested students should submit a resume and cover letter
to Barry Taylor at barryt@equipforequality.org
by Friday, November 12, 2010. The cover letter should
explain why you want to work at EFE, your preference, if
any, for one of EFE's three legal programs, and any disability-related
experience you may have (professional or personal).
Please notify Prof. Gross (vgross@kentlaw.edu)
if you are selected as an extern.
Spring 2011 Semester: Legal Externship with Seyfarth
Shaw IP Division (For Credit Only)
2L and 3L Applicants Must Have a Minimum G.P.A. of
3.28.
Seyfarth Shaw, LLP, will select a Chicago-Kent IP Certificate
student for a for-credit Spring 2010 Legal Externship in
their IP division.
To Apply:
Submit your resume and transcript to Prof. Gross by Friday,
November 5, at noon.
Professor Gross will then forward the information to the
participating firm to make its selection.
Do not apply directly.
For more information about intellectual property externship
opportunities generally, please contact Professor Vivien
Gross (vgross@kentlaw.edu).
Spring 2011 Semester: Corporate Law Externship with
Accenture/DLA Piper (For Credit Only 4 credit hours)
2L and 3L Applicants Must Have a Minimum G.P.A. Of 3.2
This corporate externship will expose a student to the
daily operations of the Legal Department at Accenture, a
commercial management consulting, technology services and
outsourcing company for half of the semester (7 weeks);
and to the corporate/commercial law practice area at DLA
Piper, a leading global law firm, for the remaining 7 weeks.
At Accenture, the extern will be assigned to a client services
group (e.g., Products, Resources, Communications & High
Tech, Financial Services) and 1-2 areas of specialty (e.g.,
Employment, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Compliance,
etc.), thereby gaining experience in legal research, drafting
and internal client management. At DLA Piper, the extern
will be assigned to one or two of the following five departments
and will participate in research, drafting or project management
assignments: Intellectual Property, Mergers & Acquisitions;
Litigation, Insurance and Reinsurance, and Real Estate.
All interested applicants should submit their resume and
transcript to Professor Gross by no later than Thursday,
November 4, 2010. Professor Gross will then forward
the materials to Accenture and DLA Piper, who will make
their selection as quickly as possible to comply with law
school pre-registration timelines.
If you have any questions, contact Professor Gross at vgross@kentlaw.edu.
Spring 2011 Semester: Legal Externship with Mitsui Rail
Capital, LLC (For Credit Only)
Mitsui Rail Capital, LLC (MRC) is a railcar operating lessor
servicing customers throughout North America, including
Canada and Mexico. MRC's customer base includes many Fortune
500 companies in a wide variety of sectors, including energy,
mining, coal, steel, automotive, appliances, grain, plastics,
etc. MRC also provides rail and infrastructure advisory
services to its sister-companies in Amsterdam, Munich and
Sao Paolo, as well as affiliated sister-companies worldwide.
The extern will work directly with General Counsel on numerous
legal matters including but not limited to: equipment leasing
agreements; equipment financing and other financial documentation;
NDAs or other confidentiality agreements; corporate governance
documents including board minutes, consents/resolutions,
company and employee policies; matters relating to human
resources and employment; insurance claim handling and reporting;
various litigation matters; and other legal matters as needed
by the company.
Qualifications:
Extern applicants can be either 2Ls or 3Ls. Students who
have had course work in Business Organizations, Commercial
and Secured Transactions and/or Employment Law are preferred.
In addition, the extern should have an interest or experience
in cross-cultural business environments.
To Apply:
Applicants should send a cover letter, resume, writing sample
and transcript (unofficial on-line transcript is acceptable)
by either regular mail or email to:
Julie Schotanus
Manager, General Affairs
Mitsui Rail Capital, LLC
Suite 1800
71 S. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60608
jschotanus@mrc-rail.com
Please note: cover letters should be addressed to:
Mr. Rudy A. Figueroa, Jr.
General Counsel
Director of Human Resources & Corporate Secretary
Mitsui Rail Capital, LLC
Application Deadline: Wednesday, December 1, 2010.
If you are selected to extern, please notify Prof. Gross
(vgross@kentlaw.edu)
immediately for permission to register for Legal Externship
(4 credit hours),
Spring 2011 Semester: For Credit Legal Externship with
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 US 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 US 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 US 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 Monday, November 1, 2010
to:
Ms. Diane Romaniuk
Senior Trial Attorney
Commodities Futures Trading Commission
525 W. Monroe Street, Suite 1100
Chicago, IL 60661
dromaniuk@cftc.gov
Please notify Prof. Gross (vgross@kentlaw.edu)
if you are selected as an extern.
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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