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| Office
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- Student meet and greet.
- "KORUS FTA, Who Is It For? Prosperity Through Trade with Korea."
- "Gulf Coast Civic Works Act of 2007."
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| Student Services |
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- November 6: Dean's meet and greet.
- Fire drill follow-up.
- November 6 and 7: ASP workshop on preparing for and taking exams.
- Fall 2007 final exams:
- Exam schedule.
- October 31 to November 14: Exam conflict/reschedule requests.
- October 31 to November 14: Exam method registration.
- Availability of professors' old exams.
- November 5: Deadline for change of division requests.
- Student Awards Luncheon: Program and remarks.
- Spring 2008 preliminary schedule.
- Joke of the week.
- Poem of the week.
- Office hours.
- Exam method registration: October 31 to November 14.
- Changing division requests: October 22 to November 5.
- Fall 2007 final exam conflicts/reschedule requests: October 31 to November 14 by 5 p.m.
- December 6: Deadline for revoking pass-fail.
- Perkins Loan promissory notes.
- Fall disbursement schedule.
- Loan disbursement process, step by step.
- 1L mandatory resume workshop.
- 1L office tours.
- "Networking for Introverts."
- Out-of-state job search.
- Presidential Management Fellows.
- Public service reception.
- Midwest Public Interest Law Career Conference.
- November 16: Diversity Networking Reception.
- December 5: Alumni Awards Luncheon. Students welcome!
- Take a Break speaker series:
- November 27: Sole Practitioners.
- Commencement information:
- Fall 2007 graduates.
- Spring 2008 graduates.
- Come in and check out our bargain books.
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| Academics
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- Law Offices In-House Clinic applications are now available in room 600.
- Paid public interest opportunities, bilingual position added: Advice Desk.
- Fall 2007 semester: Workers' Compensation Litigation Unit, Civil Division, Cook County State's Attorneys Office.
- Spring 2008 semester: Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers (CLAIM).
- Spring 2008 semester: Resurrection Health Care.
- Spring 2008 semester: Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company.
- Spring 2008 semester: Litigation technology externship.
- Spring 2008 semester: Intellectual property (IP) legal externship opportunity.
- Spring 2008 semester: U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Division of Enforcement.
- Spring 2008 semester: Internal Revenue Service, Office of Chief Counsel.
- Summer 2008 semester: Externships with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois.
- For a description of all clinical programs, please visit the Law Offices home page at: www.kentlaw.edu/academics/clinic.
- November 8: Conference on Korea - U.S. KORUS Free Trade Agreement, open to all students.
- ISBA to publish papers from four Chicago-Kent LL.M. students.
- Check out the OILP fall newsletter!
- No new entries this week:
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| Computing
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- Duplex printing is available in labs 900 and 700.
- CLC Help Desk ticket tracking system.
- Print accounting system on KENTNET.
- Print account balances were reset on July 23.
- Account termination.
- Free e-mail available to Chicago-Kent alumni at alum.iit.edu.
- CLC Policy: Students are required to show C-K photo ID card for loaner computer equipment.
- Computer acceptable use policy.
- Windows Update.
- Remove unnecessary files on network.
- CLC monthly network maintenance schedule.
- Latest McAfee DAT file is sdat5155.
- CLC contact information and office hours.
- Office of Technology Services at the main campus: Dell computer purchases.
- http://ots.iit.edu/computer equipment/purchase.php
- Be on the alert!
- LL.M. Lexis and Westlaw passwords.
- Fall semester library hours.
- Featured resource: Environmental Law Reporter (ELR).
- General library policies.
- Free CALI lessons available to law students.
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| Faculty |
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| Institutes
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- November 23: Deadline for February/July 2008 examinees to apply for an American Bar Association-BarBri Scholarship.
- December 1: Deadline to apply for the ABA Division for Public Services 2007-08 clerkship.
- Self-Help Web Center at the Daley Center seeks volunteers.
- Public interest certificate program letters of intent available.
- November 30: Second annual Nanopolicy Conference - "Faces of Risk: Nanopolicy and the Agenda for Safety and Society."
- Research associates wanted.
- Chicago-Kent's Institute for Law and the Humanities paper.
- 2007-08 Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition in Employment and Labor Law.
- College of Labor and Employment Lawyers 2008 Writing Competition.
- Research assistants wanted.
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| Administrative
Offices/General |
- Weekly activities schedule.
- Fall 2007 building and library hours, effective August 20.
- Fall 2007 student hiring and employment requirements.
- Discount parking for DTC faculty, staff and students: Fall 2007 semester.
- Downtown Campus safety tips.
- Shuttle bus schedule.
- DTC Bursar’s Office hours.
- Administration and Finance office hours.
- Online room reservation form.
- Upcoming programs in CLE.
- Record templates available for students and administrators.
- Tuesday afternoon Human Resources office hours now held in room 654.
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| Student
Organizations |
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Student Organizations:
Click here for the template
to use for creating Record announcement pages. More information is available on the
About the Record page.
- November 16: Professor Sheldon Nahmod's Supreme Court Review, noon.
- November 28: "Appellate Litigation in the States" panel, featuring Chicago-Kent faculty alum Michael Scodro, solicitor general of Illinois, 3 p.m.
- Interested in becoming more involved?
- Publicize your student organization events!
- Fall 2007 publication deadlines.
- Join The Commentator.
- November 6: U.S. Supreme Court Decision in KSR v. Teleflex panel discussion, noon to 1:15 p.m. in room 570.
- November 7: KJF fourth annual wine event.
- November 13: Chicago Police Department's Animal Crimes Unit's presentation on dogfighting in Chicago, noon to 1:30 p.m. in room 370.
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