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| Student Services |
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- Law week activities.
- Summer 2008 class schedule.
- Change of division requests: March 26 - April 4.
- Spring 2008 final exams.
- Exam schedule.
- Exam conflict/reschedule requests: April 2-11.
- Exam method registration: April 2-11.
- Availability of professors' old exams.
- Early bird bar preparation program for Chicago-Kent students.
- Bar exam preparation courses.
- Joke of the week.
- Poem of the week.
- Change of division requests: March 26 - April 4.
- Exam conflict/reschedule requests: April 2-11.
- Exam method registration: April 2-11.
- May 2: Deadline for revoking pass-fail.
- Office hours.
- Counseling Center information.
- Women’s History Month.
- Summer 2008 financial information.
- Chicago-Kent spring disbursement.
- Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms: Interview Skills and Resume Building Workshop.
- NASALSA-NASABA 2008-09 fellowship.
- Graduation information for the Class of 2008:
- Composite photos: Sign-up ends Monday!
- Your commencement timeline.
- April 1: Graduate info form due.
- April 1: Cap and gown form due.
- 2008 Class Gift:
- Giving update.
- Give today!
- Thank you to our donors.
- New scholarships available. Apply now!
- Laptop locks.
- Bargain books have been marked down.
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| Academics
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- Summer 2008 In-House Clinic: Applications due Wednesday, March 26, at noon.
- Fall 2008 In-House Clinic: Applications available now.
- Fall 2008 externship: Internal Revenue Service, Office of Chief Counsel.
- Fall 2008 semester: Illinois Attorney General’s Office.
- Fall 2008 semester: Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, Workers’ Compensation Division.
- Fall 2008 semester: City of Chicago Department of Consumer Services.
- Fall 2008 semester: Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board.
- Summer/fall 2008 semester: Resurrection Health Care.
- Fall 2008 semester: U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Division of Enforcement.
- Fall 2008 judicial externship: Immigration Court.
- Summer/fall legal externships: Cook County Domestic Relations Court.
- Fall 2008 Judicial Externship Program information and application process.
- Law Offices attorneys help free innocent man.
- Law Offices professor admitted to practice before U.S. Supreme Court.
- For a description of all clinical programs, please visit the Law Offices home page at: www.kentlaw.edu/academics/clinic.
- SmithAmundsen Excellence in Legal Writing Award for first-year students.
- Study abroad deadline extended to March 28!
- April 2: Brown bag lunch -- "China’s New Anti-Monopoly Legislation" with Professor Wang Xianlin.
- For Chinese nationals only: Conference opportunity in Washington, D.C.
- Opportunity for free master’s degree at the University of Copenhagen.
- New global justice study abroad program.
- Summer 2008 internships available in China and Poland.
- Nominate a student for the Deak Writing Award.
- Important U.S. income tax information for international students.
- "International" clerkship opportunity for J.D. students.
- International Bar Association Conference scholarship opportunity.
- April 1: Informational meeting on the Program in Environmental and Energy Law.
- No new entries this week.
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| Computing
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- Printing and e-mail/network accounts for December 2007 graduates.
- Chicago-Kent wireless network reference.
- Duplex printing is available in labs 900, 700 and 760.
- CLC Help Desk ticket tracking system.
- Print accounting system on KENTNET.
- 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 sdat5258.
- 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
- A reminder about security in the library!
- Pardon the noise on the eighth floor.
- Spring library hours.
- Featured resource: Chicago Public Library's new Web site and catalog.
- General library policies.
- Free CALI lessons available to law students.
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| Faculty |
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- Call for legal research and writing teaching assistants for 2008-09. Apply by March 31.
- Wanted: Research assistant in international law and international criminal law.
- Exam review sessions for last fall's Employee Benefits Law and Estates and Trusts courses.
Faculty Newsletters
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| Institutes
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- CAJT wins the 2008 Louis M. Brown Award for Legal Access.
- Apply for the CAJT Summer Fellowship.
- CAJT is looking for student fellows to start immediately.
- Apply for the Iowa Legal Aid internship.
- Sign up to volunteer at the Self-Help Web Center.
- April 1: Deadline for submitting applications for the Certificate in Public Interest Law.
- Research associates wanted.
- Institute for Law and the Humanities paper prize.
- April 8: 30th annual Kenneth M. Piper Lecture.
- College of Labor and Employment Lawyers 2008 Writing Competition.
- Part-time and full-time summer research assistants needed.
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| Administrative
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- Weekly activities schedule.
- Building and library hours for spring 2008, effective January 22.
- Spring 2008 student employment hiring procedures.
- Discount parking: DTC faculty, staff and students for spring/summer 2008.
- 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.
- Expanded Human Resources hours at the Downtown Campus.
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| Student
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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.
- Law Week events.
- March 25: Election petitions and candidate statements due.
- March 29: Save the date for the SBA Barristers Ball!
- April 23: Guantanamo litigation with Tom Sullivan, 3 p.m.
- Buy your Evening Law Student Society T-shirt on the ELSS Web site.
- March 29: ELSS study hall, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., room 545.
- March 29: ELSS executive board meeting, noon to 1:30 p.m. in room 545.
- March 31: "Planning Your Remaining Years at Chicago-Kent" - A panel of upper-class students, 5 to 5:45 p.m. in room 590.
- Fun legal factoid: Apple pie cannot be served in Wisconsin without a cheese topping.
- March 25: "Intellectual Property and the Autonomy Interest" - Chicago IP Colloquium at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
- March 27: 17th annual KJF Spring Auction to raise funds for public interest fellowships.
- March 27: ABA Outreach at Chicago-Kent, noon to 1:45 p.m. in room 580. (Date has been changed.)
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