JUDICIAL EXTERNSHIPS: SUMMER 2017/FALL
2017
Judicial Externship Program (JEP) is a 4-credit hour Pass/Low
Pass/Fail program that enables Kent students to do legal
research and writing for federal appellate, district or
magistrate judges as well as Illinois appellate and circuit
court judges included in our participating panel of judges.
Being a judicial extern is a unique and important learning
experience which is recognized as a significant achievement
by the legal community and will benefit 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 also have the opportunity
to observe the day-to-day routine of the courtroom. In addition,
there is an accompanying classroom component which focuses
on various aspects of judicial decision-making, and how
those aspects affect the extern's work product.
Informational Meeting: Room 345, February 8, 2017, at
3:00 p.m.
On Wednesday, February 8th, at 3:00 p.m. in Room 345, Professor
Vivien Gross will conduct an informational meeting on Summer
and/or Fall 2017 Judicial Externships for all interested
students. Professor Gross will describe the kinds of experiences
a judicial extern will have in the course of a semester,
as well as how to apply for a judicial externship.
Application Process
Summer 2017 Information and Application packets will be
available as of Friday, February 3rd, in the 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. The packets will give you complete information
about the program and application procedures.
Completed applications for Summer 2017 must be submitted
in hard copy to Carole Ross, Administrative Assistant to
Prof. Gross, Room 610, Law Offices, by Friday, February
17th, at noon.
Fall 2017 Information and Application packets will be available
as of Wednesday, February 22nd, in the 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.
Completed applications for Fall 2017 must be submitted
in hard copy to Carole Ross, Administrative Assistant to
Prof. Gross, Room 610, Law Offices, by Wednesday,
March 22nd, at noon.
If you have any questions about the program or the application
process, contact Professor Vivien Gross in Room 617. E-mail:
vgross@kentlaw.iit.edu.
NEW CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
For the first time, students can opt to enroll in the new
Joint LADR/Labor and Employment Law Certificate Program!
Applications will be made available shortly.
FLEISCHMAN AWARD
Former criminal clinic students Lydia Ness and Dalia Labrador
receive 2016 Fleischman Family Awards for Excellence in
Criminal Clinic. Read
more.
C-K LAW GROUP NEWSLETTER
View the latest C-K
Law Group newsletter to find out what is currently happening
and hear from students who talk about their clinic experiences.
INTENSIVE CLINIC
Intensive clinic is a twelve credit, one semester course
in which the students will receive an enhanced, closely
supervised and graded clinical experience and, in addition,
satisfy their senior seminar paper requirement. Intensive
Clinic has the potential to be the optimal means for law
students to transition from law school to the practice of
law in that it provides a natural progression from theory
(doctrinal classes) to simulations to clinic to Intensive
Clinic, where students engage in sophisticated lawyering
activities on a full-time basis for an entire semester,
with a safety net in place. The program will be available
for a select number of senior law students. Each student
enrolled in Intensive Clinic will receive ten graded clinical
education credits and a separate grade of two credits for
writing a paper that will satisfy the Senior Seminar paper
requirement under the close supervision of the clinical
faculty member who selected the student.
Areas of Law: Plaintiffs Employment Law, Civil Litigation,
Vaccine Injury Litigation, Criminal Law, Entrepreneurial
Law, Family Law and Tax Law.
To Apply:
Students will apply to Intensive Clinic via a written
submission detailing their qualifications and their reasons
for seeking admission. This submission will be the basis
for discussion during a subsequent individual interview
with each applicant. Please direct all written submissions
to Tracy Kish at tkish@kentlaw.iit.edu.
LITIGATION AND ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION
(LADR)
The due date has passed for the LADR certificate program
but we can still accept applications. Applications can be
found online
and can be turned in to the receptionist in the C-K Law
Group, Suite 600.
CRIMINAL LITIGATION CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
The due date has passed for the Criminal Ltigation Certificate
Program but we can still accept applications. Applications
can be found online
and can be turned in to the receptionist in the C-K Law
Group, Suite 600.
Student Argues Before Judge
Kudos to former C-K Law Group student Tracy Harkins, supervised
by Professor Richard Kling, who argued in front of a 7th
Circuit Judges Kanne, Hamilton and Sykes in Federal Court
on Wednesday, October 7. The oral argument was based on
the appeal of the district court's denial of a motion to
suppress evidence. Tracy argued that the finding of reasonable
suspicion, in support of a "Terry" stop, at the
district court level was erroneous, on the basis that the
facts the district court found supported reasonable suspicion
were not articulable and reliable enough to confer such
suspicion.
In The News
Clinical Professor of Law Pamela Kentra, supervisor of
the Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic, explains
a Seventh Circuit decision that could chip away at the private
arbitration system in Crain's
Chicago Business.
Clinical Professor of Law Richard Kling, supervisor of the
Criminal Clinic, is interviewed by CBS
2 Chicago about the special prosecutor appointed in
the Laquan McDonald murder case.
Chicago-Kent College Clinical Professor of Law Richard
Kling is interviewed in the Chicago Sun-Times about former
Governor Rod Blagojevich’s resentencing hearing. Read Chicago-Kent's
Richard Kling's comments in the Chicago
Sun-Times.
Center for Open Government Director Clint Krislov spoke
to Investigators’ Notebook about his client’s taxpayer action
to enforce school district anti-nepotism policies. Read
Clint Krislov's comments in the Investigators'
Notebook, the blog of the Better Government Association's
Investigative Unit.
The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin published
an article focusing on the legal writing and clinical
education programs.
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
For a complete description of all clinical programs, please
visit the C-K Law Group Home Page at http://www.kentlaw.iit.edu/legal-clinics
For a description of all externship programs, please visit
the Externship home page at http://www.kentlaw.iit.edu/externships.
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