For more information, please contact:
Gwen Osborne, director of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
ADVISORY TO PRODUCERS, COLUMNISTS, AND ASSIGNMENT, LEGAL, PLANNING, BOOK,
INTERNATIONAL, SPORTS, BUSINESS, CITY DESK, FEATURES AND DAYBOOK EDITORS
CHICAGO–March 3, 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.
Jury selection has begun in the federal fraud trial of businessman and political fundraiser Tony Rezko. Chicago-Kent experts are available for interviews.
Administrators from Chicago-Kent and American University in Kosovo (AUK) this week will sign an agreement to establish a special graduate law study program. The two-semester program, which will lead to an LL.M. degree from Chicago-Kent, is a way to help the legal community in Kosovo develop a corps of young lawyers to support and strengthen the newly independent country’s commitment to the rule of law. Chicago-Kent professor and Operation Kosovo founder Henry H. Perritt, Jr., who will oversee the program, is available for interviews. In 2005, Professor Perritt wrote a paper for AUK administrators stressing a need to close the serious gap in professional education for lawyers in Kosovo. He is the author of a forthcoming book on the Kosovo Liberation Army and another on the diplomatic process that led to Kosovo’s independence.
A2J Author™ 2.0 is the upgrade of the award-winning software tool developed by Chicago-Kent’s Center for Access to Justice & Technology, in partnership with the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), that helps non-technical personnel from the courts, clerk’s offices, legal services programs, and Web site editors rapidly to build and implement customer friendly Web-based legal assistance. The A2J Guided Interviews™ created with A2J Author™ remove many of the barriers faced by self-represented litigants, allowing them to easily complete court documents that are ready to be filed with the court. A2J is used in 22 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Ontario, Canada. A2J Author™ 2.0 is available at no charge on the A2J Author community Web site (www.a2jauthor.org) to anyone using the software for non-commercial purposes. Ronald J. Staudt, a Chicago-Kent professor and IIT associate vice president for law, business and technology, is available for interviews about the project.
March is Women’s History Month. Chicago-Kent has experts available to discuss the impact of a variety of laws and court decisions on American women. Experts are also available to discuss issues related to women in the legal profession.
March Madness. The NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments begin this month. Adjunct professor and sports attorney Eldon L. Ham is available for interviews about legal issues related to intercollegiate athletics.
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:
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 or visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle/.
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