Important Record Announcement

• New Record headline contact: Tom Shipley.

Dean Henry H. Perritt, Jr.

Assistant Dean Stephen D. Sowle

• UPDATE: Fall 1999 registration.
• Intensive Trial Advocacy 1.

Registrar

• Confirmation of registration.
  • Program notices available for pick-up after 2pm, Monday, April 12.
• Intensive Trial Advocacy list of selected students will be posted Wednesday, April 14.
• August 1999 Graduates.
• May 1999 graduates.

Administration and Finance

• Weekly activities schedule.
• Third parking lot for Downtown Campus.

Student Services

• Deadline for exam reschedules.
• Fall 1999 teaching assistant applications.

Financial Aid

• Exit interviews.
• 1998-1999 financial aid deadline.
• Summer 1999.
• Bar exam loans.
• 1999-2000 financial aid.
• Office hours.

Career Services

• Patent Law Interview Program: students registered for this Job Fair must pick up their informational packets in the Career Services Office.
• Phone calls lead to jobs, free food: volunteers still needed for Jobathon.
• Good news: 1998 graduate employment statistics are in!
• Members of the CSO staff to represent Chicago-Kent at the national NALP Conference with legal employers April 20-24.
• KJF Public Interest Fellowship applications now available.
• Job opportunities and other Record handouts:
  • Internships/clerkships
  • Fellowships
  • Judicial clerkships
  • Miscellaneous

Admissions

• Office of Admissions hours.

Information Center

• CFR tutorial
• New library system on the way.
• Media Services video recording.
• The Document Center makes posters.
• Federal tax forms on eLOISe.

Law Offices

• Applications for the fall 1999 Law Offices Clinical Education Program are available from the receptionist in suite 600.
• DEADLINE: Law Offices applications for fall 1999 are due by 5pm on April 16, 1999.
• An information meeting for newly admitted LADR students will be held in room 370 on Wednesday, April 14, 1999.
• DEADLINE: Preference forms for new LADR students must be turned in to Phyllis Powell in room 619 by 5pm on Friday, April 16.
• For a description of all clinical programs, please visit the Law Offices home page at: www.kentlaw.edu/academics/clinic

Center for Law and Computers

• New look of computers at Chicago-Kent!
• New lab is open--conveniently located on the fifth floor in room 545.
• New virus detection software.
• The student directory is now available online.
• Student printing deadlines.
• Answers to some of the most commonly asked questions.
• Network maintenance schedule.

Scholarships

• Critical information regarding Chicago-Kent merit-based and need-based scholarships and awards for the 1999-2000 academic year.
• 1998-99 external scholarships.

Continuing Legal Education

• ATTENTION- All students interested in labor law.
• Upcoming programs in 1999.

Office of Development

• 13th annual Scholarship Appreciation Luncheon.
  • General information.
  • Videos of student speeches.

Writing Contests

• New entries this week.

Employment Opportunities

• Legal writing teaching assistant applications.

From Professor Suzanne Ehrenberg

• Legal writing and teaching assistant applications.

Professor Richard Wright

• Professors Wright and Bernstein appointed to Advisory Board of the Legal Scholarships Network's online journal.

Serving Our Society (SOS)

• Tutoring.
• Domestic violence.

Lexis-Nexis

Westlaw

Program in Environmental and Energy Law

• April 12: Tom France, senior attorney for the National Wildlife Federation at 6pm in room 345.

Program in Intellectual Property Law

• Chicago-Kent students win the Midwest Regional of the Giles Sutherland Rich Moot Court Competition.
• Participation in the IP Program.

Amnesty International

• Spring Lecture Series on Feminism, Gender Politics and the Law.
• Elections of the 1999-2000 executive board.

Chicago Bar Associaton

• CBA Law Student End-of-the-Year Reception next week!
• Volunteers needed for Spring Fling at Wrigleyville home for domestic violence victims, April 14.
• Volunteer Night at the Greater Chicago Food Depository, April 22.
• Friends of the Park Earth Day Clean-Up, April 25.
• Upcoming YLS events and committee meetings:
  • Friday, April 16: Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Computer Law Association

• See the new links on the Sample Justice Web Collaboratory page.

Criminal Justice Society

• Criminal Justice Society elections.

Environmental Law Society

• General meeting: Tuesday, April 13, room TBA.
  • Exciting news on Earth Day events, etc.
• Elections: Tuesday, April 20.
• Spring Street Clean-Up: The morning of Saturday, April 17. Meet in Chicago-Kent lobby. Pizza lunch will be provided.

Health Law Society

• Spring symposium.
  • HMO: Friend or Foe?
• James D. Watson: 1962 Nobel laureate in medicine.
  • From the Double Helix to the Human Genome Project.
• Elections.

Justinian Society

• Note on upcoming elections.

Kent Association of Trial Lawyers of America

• General meeting.
• Mock trial participants needed.
• Speaker event.

Kent Justice Foundation

• Elections.
• Summer fellowship applications available.
• General meeting.

Labor and Employment Law Society

• Thanks to everyone for making the panel discussion and reception a success!
• Calendar of upcoming events.
• Outlines!!!

Moot Court Honor Society

• Tryouts for international moot court will take place during the first three weeks of the fall semester. However, candidates must meet the following requirements:
  • 2.75+ GPA
  • have taken or enrolled in international research or international law.
• The candidacy tryouts will consist of a single issue brief for one side and an oral argument on that issue. Anyone having difficulty signing-up for the prerequisite classes should talk to Professor Molly Lien. Good Luck.

Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity

• Meet Justice McMorrow
• Networking series.
• Resume review.
• Elections for next year.
• Not a member yet?

Women in Law

• REMINDER: Vote in executive board elections Tuesday in the Spak.
• REMINDER: Don't forget to bring your goodies for the bake sale Tuesday!
• Author Cathy Young on "Feminism and the Movement Towards a New Equality" on Wednesday, April 14 at 6pm in the courtroom. Reception to follow.
• Feminist symposium at Northwestern University, April 16-- all students are invited.
• Last week's general meeting agenda now online.
• WIL Spring Reception April 27-- guest speaker Alan Zenoff.