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Gwen Osborne, director of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
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CHICAGO–February 25, 2008–Chicago-Kent College of Law and Stuart School of Business have experts available to discuss current issues. To reach any of our experts, call Gwen Osborne, director of public affairs, at (312) 906-5251. Press releases and earlier advisories are available on our Web site: www.kentlaw.edu/news/advisory.
Age discrimination. The U.S. Supreme Court this week said although a group of Federal Express employees did not file the proper form with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, they still satisfied the legal requirement for filing an age discrimination suit. In an unanimous ruling, the court sent an age discrimination lawsuit against Sprint Nextel back to the lower court to clarify facts related to the case. The justices’ action leaves undecided the underlying legal issue of whether federal courts must by witnesses alleging similar discrimination to testify in another plaintiff’s age discrimination case. Professor Howard C. Eglit is the author of Elders on Trial: Age and Ageism in the American Legal System, a three-volume treatise titled Age Discrimination, and a law review article, The Age Discrimination in Employment Act at Thirty: Where It's Been, Where It Is Today, Where It's Going. A nationally known expert in elder law issues, Professor Eglit is available for interviews about the case or other issues related to law and aging.
Commissioners and union representatives of professional baseball, football, hockey and basketball appeared Wednesday during the first round of hearings before a congressional subcommittee looking into the use of steroids in sports. Executives from the National Collegiate Athletic Association, U.S. Olympic Committee, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, and National Thoroughbred Racing Association are also expected to testify. These hearings, which are unrelated to those held last month on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball and the findings of the Mitchell Report, are to determine whether Congress can come up with a legislative solution to the problem. Adjunct professor and sports attorney Eldon L. Ham is available for interviews.
Kosovo independence. Russian presidential candidate Dmitry Medvedev this week spoke out against Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia, saying the move will spark secessionist movements in other parts of Europe. Russia is Serbia’s strongest ally. Last week, the U.S. extended formal recognition to Kosovo as "a sovereign and independent state." Chicago-Kent professor and Operation Kosovo founder Henry H. Perritt, Jr., has been to the region numerous times during the past nine years. In 2004, Professor Perritt convened a symposium of academics and policymakers--many from the University of Prishtina in Kosovo--to discuss a wide range of legal, political and economic issues an independent Kosovo will face. He is the author of a forthcoming book on the Kosovo Liberation Army. Professor Perritt is available for interviews.
Chicago-Kent’s Immigration Law Clinic is seeking those who need legal assistance with immigration, asylum and nationality matters. The clinic is supervised by Professor Matthew I. Bernstein, whose practice includes advising corporations, nonprofit organizations and individuals in all areas of immigration law, including professionals; aliens of extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts and business; individuals seeking immigration benefits for family members; and individuals threatened with removal from the United States by the government. Professor Bernstein is available for interviews about the Immigration Law Clinic. He is also available to speak to groups or organizations about immigration issues.
Downtown Campus Events:
February 29: "Navigating the ILSVP Process." This one-day continuing legal education program for judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys will focus on Illinois’ Sexually Violent Persons Act. Sessions will include information on the Illinois Department of Corrections’ evaluation criteria for potential SVP (sexually violent persons) respondents; Illinois Department of Human Services’ evaluation criteria and treatment standards; and treatment and detention facility policies and procedures. Speakers include Cook County Criminal Division presiding judge Paul P. Biebel Jr.; Joelle Marasco, chief of the Illinois Attorney General’s Sexually Violent Persons Bureau; Illinois Department of Human Services associate director Dr. Guy C. Groot; Chicago-Kent professor Daniel Coyne; and Alyssa Williams, Illinois Department of Corrections’ coordinator for sex offender services. For more information, call (312) 906-5090 or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/.
March 7: "Using Technology to Organize and Present Cases." This one-day seminar for litigators will explore how technology is used to present information to juries and mediation panels and how it may be used to manage complex commercial litigation. The program includes an interactive discussion of ethical concerns for practitioners dealing with digitized discovery. Participants will see demonstrations of innovative technology in opening and closing argument presentations, direct examination of expert witnesses, and mediation presentations. Presenters include Gera-Lind Kolarik, former television producer and president of Evidence Video; Illinois Appellate Court Justice and Chicago-Kent adjunct professor Warren D. Wolfson; Jeffrey J. Asperger, principal and founding member of Asperger Associates LLC; David A. Erickson, associate director of Chicago-Kent’s trial advocacy program and director of its program in criminal litigation; trial consultant Patricia F. Kuehn; and attorneys Gregory F. Coplan and Benjamin A. Crane of Coplan and Crane LLC. For more information, call (312) 906-5090 or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/.
March 11: "Consumer Welfare v. Protecting the Competitive Process--An Atlantic Competition Law Divide?" is the topic of the 18th annual Henry Morris Lecture in International and Comparative Law delivered by Josef Drexl, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich, Germany. Drexl is also chair of the Academic Society for Competition Law. He has written extensively on international competition law and intellectual property law, European law, and comparative law. The lecture series is funded by the Henry Morris Endowment, established in memory of Henry Crittendon Morris, who graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1889. Mr. Morris enjoyed a distinguished career as an international lawyer and diplomat. The program, which is free and open to the public, begins at noon. For more information, call (312) 906-5090.
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