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From Professor Vivien Gross

March 2019 newsletter from the Public Interest Resource Center

Important information for students from the Public Interest Resource Center is contained in the March 2019 newsletter brought to you by Elizabeth Orr and Edgar Matias under the direction of Professor Vivien Gross.

See the newsletter for details.

Judicial Externship Program

Summer and fall judicial 2019 externship applications have all been received. If you have secured an externship with a judge who is not a participating member in the Chicago-Kent Judicial Externship Program and wish to explore the possibility of converting that opportunity into a for-credit externship, please contact Professor Vivien Gross (vgross@kentlaw.iit.edu). In addition, you will need to fill out the application available online.

Summer and Fall 2019 Access2Practice Legal Externship Program

Access2Practice (A2P) Legal Externship is a 4-credit-hour non-graded program which enables you to extern with a supervising attorney in a wide variety of legal areas – private or public, civil or criminal. Externships are available in the Fall, Spring and Summer semesters. Some public sector externships enable you to obtain a 711 license and appear in court.

Why Extern?

To become a good lawyer and to supplement what you learn in the classroom, you need practical experience in real-world legal work. Most students aren’t fortunate enough to receive a paid clerking position — or even a volunteer opportunity — that teaches what they want to learn. LEP presents a unique and important opportunity to gain exposure to an area of the law in which you are interested and helps you significantly broaden your future employment opportunities.

Where Can Students Extern?

You select and obtain your own externship. This program does not assign you to a particular placement. To gain access to the many available externship placement possibilities, consult Symplicity.

Students interested in civil law may extern in a wide variety of public sector or public interest legal places. For example, some have externed at the City of Chicago Corporation Counsel’s Office, Office of the Illinois Attorney General, Illinois Commerce Commission, Immigration Court of the U.S. Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service, and U.S. and Illinois Environmental Protection Agencies, Legal Aid Bureau, Chicago Board of Education, and Equip for Equality.

Students interested in criminal law may extern at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Office of the Federal Defender, and at the offices of the State’s Attorney and Public Defender in Cook County as well as the surrounding counties.

Summer LEP also includes a significant number of private placements in law firms and in-house corporate legal departments, whereas Fall and Spring placements are almost exclusively in the public and not-for-profit areas. These private placements are supervised by designated alums, both the alum teaching supervisors and placements have been screened and approved.

Summer LEP placement opportunities will be posted on Symplicity. Please scroll to Access2Practice: Private Summer for these special private opportunities.

How to Apply

The Information and Application packets for the Summer 2019 LEP will become available online or in hard copy on the table by the third-floor elevators, in the Career Services Office, and in Room 600 Law Offices reception area by February 15, 2019.

Applications for fall will be released in the near future in the same locations.

Questions?

If you have any questions about the Program or the application itself, please contact Professor Vivien Gross (vgross@kentlaw.iit.edu).


From Professor Nancy Marder

The Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Summer Fellowship application is now available

The 2019 Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Summer Fellowship application is available online at Symplicity in the Career Services Office. The application is due by noon on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, with an electronic version sent to Professor Marder (nmarder@kentlaw.iit.edu) and a hard copy placed in her mailbox on the second floor. Please note that you need to include an official transcript with the hard copy of your application. We anticipate awarding two fellowships ($7,000 each) to provide living expenses to two students who have obtained full-time non-paying public interest internships for this coming summer (for at least eight weeks).

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