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Week of July 17, 2017

C-K LAW GROUP - IN-HOUSE CLINICS

Are you looking for a way to beef up your resume and get real work experience? Not only can students take an in-house clinic through C-K Law Group as a course and earn credits but can also gain real work experience, create networking opportunities and many students even get opportunities to work directly with clients.

Applications for the Fall 2017 semester are now available and are still being accepted and can be found online, by the third floor elevators or in the C-K Law Group reception area, Suite 600. You can also submit the fall application online.
 

CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS

C-K Law Group administers three certificate programs: Litigation and Dispute Resolution (LADR), Criminal Litigation and a LADR/Employment Law Joint Certificate Program. These are great programs if you want to get more exposure to Litigation and/or employment law or other experiential learning.

For more information, please visit the Certificate program website. You can email Tracy at tkish@kentlaw.iit.edu if you would like further information. Applications for these certificate programs can be found on the table on the third floor by the elevators, in the C-K Law Group reception area (Suite 600) or online:

Litigation and Dispute Resolution (LADR)

Criminal Litigation

LADR/Emloyment and Labor Law

 

ACCESS2PRACTICE
LEGAL EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM

A2P Legal Externship (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.

Placements include all public sector, public interest and non-profit organizations.

Students interested in civil law may extern in a wide variety of places including, but not limited to, the City of Chicago Law Department, Office of the Illinois Attorney General, Illinois Commerce Commission, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Internal Revenue Service, and Environmental Protection Agency, as well approved in-house corporate legal departments as well as approved in-house private legal departments. 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 any of the surrounding counties.

Fall 2017 LEP

Symplicity is posting many Fall LEP placement opportunities for which you can apply. Please scroll to Access2Practice for these special opportunities. You must apply directly and independently to these placements.

Application Process:

Information and application packets for Fall 2017 are available in the Law Offices reception area (Room 600), in the Career Services Office, on the table by the third-floor elevators, and online:

 

NEW CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

For the first time, students can opt to enroll in the new Joint LADR/Labor and Employment Law Certificate Program! Applications and information about this new and exciting program can be found online.
 

PROFESSOR KLING IN THE NEWS

Clinical Professor Richard Kling was interviewed by WGN-TV about the legal bills incurred for Drew Peterson's legal defense.
 

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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