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Week of October 13, 2014

 

Application Deadline Extension

JUDICIAL EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM, SPRING 2015

Applications due: Thursday, October 16, at 10:00 a.m.

Being a judicial extern is a unique and important learning experience which is recognized as a significant achievement by the legal community and benefits you in pursuing your future career goals.

Judicial externs work with a judge and/or the judge's law clerks researching law, writing memoranda and participating in drafting opinions. Externs have the opportunity to observe the day-to-day routine of the courtroom. There is also an acompanying classroom component which focuses on various aspects of judicial decision-making, and how those aspects affect the extern's work product.

Take advantage of this terrific opportunity and apply.

2Ls must have a 3.25 minimum GPA
3Ls must have a 3.32 minimum GPA

Spring 2015 Information and Application packets are still available in Law Offices Reception Area (Room 600), in the Career Services Offices, and on the table by the third floor elevators, as well as on line at http://www.kentlaw.iit.edu/academics/jd-program/practical-skills-training/externships/students.

If you have any questions about the program or the application process, contact Prof. Vivien Gross in Room 617. E-mail: vgross@kentlaw.iit.edu.

 

ACCESS2PRACTICE
LEGAL EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM

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 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 U.S. 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.

Application Process:

Information and application packets for Spring 2013 will be available in mid-October, both on line as well as in front of the Spakateria, in Career Services Office, and in Room 600 Law Offices reception area.

If you would like more information, please check the Externship web page: http://www.kentlaw.iit.edu/academics/jd-program/practical-skills-training/externships.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) LEGAL EXTERNSHIP
FOR CREDIT ONLY: SPRING 2015 LEGAL EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM
(4 CREDITS)


Seyfarth Shaw, LLP, will select a Kent student for a for-credit Spring 2015 Legal Externship in their IP division. The IP extern essentially becomes a member of the firm's IP group for a semester. He/she typically does legal research and writing (not usually formal memos) that would otherwise be "billable" work, except does not bill for their time. The work can be in any area of IP, copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, advertising, privacy, Internet, or related issues and is not limited to people with technical backgrounds. Take advantage of this exciting and thrilling opportunity!

To Apply:

2L and 3L applicants must have a minimum G.P.A. of 3.2.

Please submit your resume and unofficial transcript to Prof. Gross by Thursday, October 30, 2014, at 5:00 p.m. Do not apply directly to the law firm.

If you have any questions, contact Prof. Gross (vgross@kentlaw.iit.edu).

 

SPRING 2015 SEMESTER LAW FIRM ASSOCIATE PROGRAM

Chicago-Kent's Semester Law Firm Associate Program (SLFAP) is a for-credit non-graded program open to 2Ls and 3Ls. Semester Associate externs work for academic credit (without pay) as "Associates" for participating firms.

Semester Associate externs receive 6 credits and devote 24 hours a week during the semester to the fieldwork component. Students gain experience and perspective from work on different aspects of litigation and transactions, and firms strive, to the extent possible, to expose students to a range of legal problems demanding different skill sets or competencies. This is a terrific opportunity to learn about life in a law firm as well as more about your own strengths, and to make an impression on the lawyers with whom you come into contact, even though there is no expectation of future employment. In conjunction with the fieldwork, there is an accompanying classroom component, scheduled on designated Thursdays from 4:00-5:00 p.m.

If you are interested in applying for a Spring 2015 externship with one of the law firms listed below, email a current resume and unofficial transcript to Professor Gross (vgross@kentlaw.iit.edu) no later than noon on Monday, November 3, 2014. Please indicate to which firm(s) you wish to apply, and, where appropriate, to which area of law.

Firms will conduct their own selection and screening process. If you receive an offer to extern, you must respond to that offer within 3 days. You cannot withdraw after you have accepted an offer. Please contact Prof. Gross immediately if you are selected.

Participating Firms

If a firm offers an externship in more than one division, please indicate your preference or whether you are applying for both.


Beermann, Pritikin, Mirabelli and Swerdlove LLP
2L or 3L, min. GPA 3.2
Matrimonial Law (1)
Litigation/Corporate Law (1)

Deutsch, Levy & Engel
2L or 3L, min. GPA 3.2
Commercial Litigation

Grund & Leavitt
2L or 3L, min. GPA 3.2
Matrimonial Law

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
2L or 3L, min. GPA 3.2
IP Law

Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
2L or 3L, min. GPA 3.3
IP Law (1)
Employment Law (1)

Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, LTD
3Ls preferred, min. GPA 3.2
Litigation (primarily tort)

Stahl Cowen Crowley Addis
2L or 3L, min. GPA 3.2
Commercial Litigation


IN THE NEWS

The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin published an article focusing on the legal writing and clinical education programs.
 

Professor Richard Kling was interviewed by Fox 32 about the possibility that consumers may soon be able to shop for legal services via Groupon. Watch the interview here.
 

Remembering the 1963 March on Washington - A talk with Clinical Professor Richard Kling
 

Clinical Professor Ed Kraus spoke with Peoria's WEEK-TV about the needs of diabetic children in schools and the necessity of accommodation from and education of school staff, for a story about a local couple whose 10-year old son has struggled to perform needed care on the bus: http://www.cinewsnow.com/news/local/Mom-says-son-denied-to-properly-treat-diabetes-is-life-or-death-issue-200679431.html
 

IIT Chicago-Kent Legal Fellow/Research Associate Sarah Blenner, who works with Clinical Professor Ed Kraus in the Health & Disability Law Clinic, discussed privacy and discrimination concerns surrounding a new policy in which CVS drugstores will require employees to submit to body weight and BMI testing or face higher health insurance premiums, in an ABC 7 News story. View the video.

 

For a complete description of all clinical programs, please visit the Law Offices' Home Page at http://www.kentlaw.iit.edu/legal-clinics

 

 

 

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