IIT Chicago-Kent faculty and students help get law enacted to protect Illinois school children with diabetes

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CHICAGO--December 8, 2010–IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law faculty and students played an integral role in securing passage of the Care of Students with Diabetes Act. The Illinois law, which took effect December 1, clarifies the rights and responsibilities of students, parents, school and healthcare personnel related to students with diabetes who need assistance with care during the school day and at school-sponsored activities.

Under the provisions of the new law, volunteer, non-nurse school employees may now help students manage their diabetes during the school day. The law also ensures that someone will be present at all times to administer insulin and a life-saving medication, called glucagon. In addition, the law allows Illinois schools to comply more easily with federal anti-discrimination and disability laws, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act and ?504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Distinguished professor Lori B. Andrews and clinical professor Edward Kraus recognized the need for such a law when they worked on pro bono cases on behalf of children who were faced with health risks at school when their legal rights were not recognized. In addition, Chicago-Kent was involved in a two-year study of the medical, social and legal issues facing children with diabetes that showed children with fewer restrictions on self-care were better able to control their diabetes.

Chicago-Kent students worked with faculty to analyze the laws in other states in order to craft a comprehensive approach for the Illinois law. The faculty and law students consulted with families, diabetes advocate Suzanne Elder and the American Diabetes Association on issues related to school children with diabetes and helped draft model legislation covering school children with diabetes that was introduced in the Illinois General Assembly in March 2010. In the role of advocates, they worked to educate Illinois legislators and citizens about the need for a law to protect the rights of children with diabetes.

Although the Care Act was passed by the General Assembly in May 2010, Governor Pat Quinn (D) signed an amendatory veto in July that changed the effective date of the law to June 1, 2011. Both the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate challenged the governor's actions. The House voted to override the amendatory veto on November 16. The Senate concurred on December 1 and the bill became law.

"The Diabetes Care Act would not have been possible without the strong, bipartisan leadership of Rep. Tom Cross (R-Oswego) and Sen. Heather Steans (D-Chicago)," said Professor Andrews.

Diabetes is a chronic health condition that must be managed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. However, due to the dearth of nurses in Illinois schools, many children were unable to get the diabetes care that they needed.

The Care Act prohibits school districts from denying access or restricting the assignments of students with diabetes. The new law also allows for designated staff to assist students with diabetes and provides training and legal protections for school personnel. In addition, the new law requires that information sheets be provided for personnel who transport students for school-related programs and activities and specifies what students with diabetes must be permitted to do to care for their health while in school.

"Illinois students with diabetes and their parents can now breathe a sigh of relief, as the Care of Students with Diabetes Act is now law. A significant number of children have Type-1 Diabetes, and this new law ensures that, in Illinois, these students can get the diabetes care that they need without sacrificing any of their legal rights," said Professor Kraus.

Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. The Health & Disability Law Clinic in the Law Offices of Chicago-Kent is part of the multidisciplinary IIT Center for Diabetes Research and Policy that engages in legal advocacy and representation to protect the rights of people with diabetes. The clinic works to fight discrimination and protect the rights of children and adults with diabetes throughout the state of Illinois. Faculty, attorneys and law students in the clinic provide free legal advice and representation in matters that include children with diabetes who face discrimination in schools. Chicago-Kent has published an informational brochure, "Protecting the Rights of School Children with Diabetes", which is available online at www.iitdiabetes.org/assets/docs/DiabetesRightsBrochure.pdf

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Chicago-Kent to host PreLaw Undergraduate Scholars

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The Chicago-Kent PreLaw Undergraduate Scholars program ("PLUS") offers a unique and unforgettable experience for college students who are interested in the legal profession. This rigorous four-week program is designed to provide students with a "taste" of the law school experience. The program is primarily directed at undergraduate college students from disadvantaged groups that are underrepresented in the legal profession.

The PLUS program is a four-week summer institute which will: (1) introduce participants to law school and the legal profession; (2) provide participants with substantive skills to strengthen their preparation for law school; and (3) educate and prepare participants for the law school application and admission process. Students must attend all classes and participate in all program activities to receive a stipend. Because this is a full-time commitment, students must agree to not work outside of the program.

The PLUS program targets college students who have just completed either their first, second or third year in college. All students are encouraged to apply who will not have received their bachelor degree by the start of the program, but preference will be given to those who will have completed their first and second years of college by the start of the program. Students who have already completed a bachelor degree are not eligible for the program. For additional information, please download the application packet or contact Theda Mickey, Administrative Director-PLUS Program, at plus@kentlaw.edu if you have any questions.

The PLUS Program is sponsored by Illinois Institute of Technology,
Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of the Illinois Institute of Technology. The second oldest law school in Illinois, Chicago-Kent has a history marked by innovation and excellence. Chicago-Kent is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools and the Order of the Coif.

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Chicago-Kent student Emil P. Totonchi awarded Peggy Browning Fellowship

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CHICAGO--May 11, 2010–Emil P. Totonchi, a second-year student at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, has been awarded a Peggy Browning Fellowship for the 2010-11 school year. Totonchi will spend 22 weeks working at the Chicago Newspaper Guild, a labor union that has represented reporters, editors, photographers and other newspaper industry employees in the Chicago metropolitan area for more than six decades. The union also represents staffers at the Illinois Federation of Teachers and court interpreters of the Cook County Court System. Totonchi will work with the Chicago Newspaper Guild's general counsel on negotiations and litigation over collective bargaining agreements the union administers.

Second-year student Emil Totonchi is the recipient of a Peggy Browning Fellowship for 2010-11

The Peggy Browning Fellowship program was established in memory of Margaret A. "Peggy" Browning, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the National Labor Relations Board in 1994. Ms. Browning, the first union-side labor attorney appointed to the NLRB, served until her death in 1997.

A native of Nashville, Tenn., Peggy Browning earned her undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College and worked as a social worker with Philadelphia's civil rights commission. She received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where she served as editor of the law review. Ms. Browning spent 15 years representing labor organizations in private, public and federal sectors. In 1985, she was a founding partner of Spear, Wilderman, Borish, Endy, Browning and Spear in Philadelphia.

"Peggy Browning fellows are distinguished students who have not only excelled in law school, but have already demonstrated a commitment to workers' rights through their previous educational, volunteer, personal and work experiences," said Mary Anne Moffa, executive director of the Peggy Browning Fund, which administers the fellowship program. "Our fellowships provide law students with unique, diverse and challenging work experiences fighting for social and economic justice in the workplace. These experiences encourage and inspire students to pursue careers in public interest labor law."

Chicago-Kent student Emil P. Totonchi is a candidate for a J.D. with a certificate in labor and employment law. The son of immigrant parents from Iraq and Ireland, Totonchi grew up in Glenview, Ill. He earned a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, with a major in international politics. Totonchi was a member of the Jewish-Arab Peace Band and the executive board of the Young Arab Leadership Alliance.

As an undergraduate, Totonchi also served four years as a student representative to the Licensing Oversight Committee that protects the rights of workers who make products licensed by Georgetown University. He also served as treasurer of the Worker Rights Consortium Governing Board and as a representative to the United Students against Sweatshops.

Before entering law school, Totonchi worked for the Service Employees International Union, for the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center in Jordan, and for the Land Center for Human Rights in Egypt.

At Chicago-Kent, Totonchi is the editor of the Employee and Employment Policy Journal and serves on the Labor and Employment Law Society's executive board. He currently is clerking at Asher, Gittler, Greenfield & D'Alba, Ltd., a Chicago law firm that specializes in labor and employment law. As a summer legal extern at Burgess Law Offices in Chicago, Totonchi provided legal assistance to taxi drivers and day laborers.

Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting university with more than 7,700 students in engineering, sciences, architecture, psychology, design, humanities, business and law.

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Chicago-Kent advances to the 2010 Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition finals

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CHICAGO--March 5, 2010–Chicago-Kent College of Law has earned a berth in the finals of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Chicago-Kent finished second among a field of 24 law schools in the Southeast Super-Regional competition, held in Miami February 25 to 28. The team is one of only a dozen U.S. law schools that will vie for the international championship in the world?s largest moot court competition March 21 to 27 at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.

The students argued a hypothetical case before the International Court of Justice involving the discovery of remote islands in the 18th century, and a dispute over their sovereignty, resources and people continuing into the present era. The case included technical issues concerning the diplomatic protection of shareholders under a bilateral investment treaty.

Chicago-Kent defeated Emory, Washington and Lee, Wake Forest and Florida State in the preliminary rounds and was seeded second among the 24 competing schools. Advancing to the quarterfinals, Chicago-Kent beat the University of Miami. After defeating Duke in the semifinal round, Chicago-Kent lost in a split decision to the first-seeded University of Georgia team. The top two teams in the regional tournament advanced to the finals. Chicago-Kent’s written memorandum tied for second place, and Ryan Kovach was recognized as the fourth best Oralist overall.

Team captain Maria Richardson is a third-year student who studied jurisprudence at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University). Teammate and second-year student Ryan Kovach graduated from Loras College, where he majored in political science and Spanish. Teammate Kevin Lahm, also a second-year student, is a graduate of the University of Kentucky with a double major in political science and German. Teammate Varun Chandrasekaran is a second-year student who earned an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Southern California. Teammate and third-year student Angelena Bertera majored in economics and Chinese at William & Mary.

The team was coached by Professor Bartram S. Brown, co-director of Chicago-Kent's Program in International and Comparative Law; Chicago-Kent Professor Edward C. Harris; and LL.M. student Sondra Furcajg, a Jessup veteran from France. Several Chicago-Kent International Law Moot Court alumni also helped the team prepare for the tournament.

Established by the International Law Students Association (ILSA) in 1959, the Jessup competition is the oldest moot court competition dedicated to international law. The tournament is named for diplomat, scholar and jurist Philip Caryl Jessup (1897-1986), who played a key role in the formation of the International Law Commission in 1948, and served a nine-year term as the U.S. representative to the International Court of Justice. White & Case LLC, an international law firm with offices on five continents, has partnered with the ILSA to become the official sponsor of the international finals in Washington, D.C.

Over 500 law schools from more than 80 countries participate in the national and regional qualifying tournaments. Chicago-Kent is one of 12 U.S. law schools from six regions in this year’s tournament to qualify for international rounds.

Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. Chicago-Kent's appellate advocacy teams have won numerous individual student honors and regional and national competitions In 2008, Chicago-Kent became the first law school in more than 30 years to win back-to-back championships in the National Moot Court Competition.

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Chicago-Kent student Matthew Bartmes wins 2009-10 Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition

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CHICAGO–April 9 , 2010--The law firm of Jackson Lewis and Chicago-Kent College of Law's Institute for Law and the Workplace have announced the winners of the 2009-10 Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition in Employment and Labor Law. Awards were presented to the top three entries.

Third-year student Matthew Bartmes, winner of the 2009-10 Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition

Matthew Bartmes, a third-year student at Chicago-Kent College of Law, won top honors for his paper "Interest Arbitration in the New Economy." Bartmes will receive a $3,000 cash prize and his paper will be published on the Institute for Law and the Workplace Web site.

There are two second-place winners. Second-year student Caroline P. Park of the University of Connecticut School of Law won for her paper "Action Speaks Louder Than Form: The Case for Protecting Oral Complaints Under the FLSA." In addition, third-year student Kimberley Chin of Boston College Law School won for her paper "Continuing the White Collar Unionization Movement: Imagining A Private Attorneys' Union." Park and Chin will each receive a $1,000 cash prize. Their papers will likewise be published on the ILW Web site.

Established in 1998, the writing competition is named for the late Louis Jackson, founding partner of Jackson Lewis. The firm, which has more than 350 attorneys in 20 offices in 13 states and the District of Columbia, has represented management in the practice of employment, labor, and benefits law for nearly 50 years.

"From 1958 until his death in 1997, Louis Jackson provided inspiration, guidance, friendship and good humor to his colleagues," said Felice Ekelman of the law firm. "It is fitting that we honor his memory by carrying on his commitment to the future of the profession through this national student competition."

"We are pleased to join with Jackson Lewis in encouraging scholarship by law students interested in careers in labor and employment law," said Martin H. Malin, Chicago-Kent professor and director of the Institute for Law and the Workplace.

Chicago-Kent's Institute for Law and the Workplace administers the annual competition. Entries are blind-judged by an independent panel of law professors from across the United States. The determination of the judges' panel is final, and neither Jackson Lewis LLP nor the Institute for Law and the Workplace is involved in judging the competition.

Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. Created in 1996, the Institute for Law and the Workplace is housed at Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law. The Institute is a national center for research, training, dialogue, and reflection on the law that governs the workplace.

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IIT Chicago-Kent wins Midwest regional championship of the 2011 Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition, advances to national finals

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CHICAGO--February 21, 2011--The IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law team of Onika Angus, Adella Deacon, Janelle Fairchild and Marcell Taylor has won the Midwest regional championship and has advanced to the national finals of the National Black Law Students Association's (NBLSA) Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition. Team member Marcell Taylor won an individual award as the competition's Best Oral Advocate.

Chicago-Kent competed against teams from 11 states in the regional competition, held February 16 to 20 in Chicago. The regional championship team from Chicago-Kent and the first-runner up team from DePaul will compete against the top two teams from five other regions in the national finals March 9 to 13 in Houston. This is the second consecutive year a team from Chicago-Kent has advanced to the national finals.

The students argued a criminal case involving prostitution and child pornography.

Winning Chicago-Kent team member Adella Deacon, a third-year student, earned an undergraduate degree in exercise physiology and a doctoral degree in physical therapy from Marquette University. Teammate Janelle Fairchild, a third-year student, is a graduate of Loyola University of Chicago with a major in psychology. Teammate Onika Angus is a third-year student who graduated with honors from Alcorn State University with a major in political science. Second-year student Marcell Taylor earned his undergraduate degree from DePaul University with a major in political science and a minor in professional writing. (Deacon and Fairchild were also members of the Chicago-Kent team that represented the region in the 2010 national finals in Boston.)

A second Chicago-Kent team comprised of third-year students Clyde Guilamo and Natashia Holmes, second-year student Temilade Oduala and first-year student Rachel Oliver advanced to the quarterfinal round of the tournament.

Both teams are coached by Cook County Circuit Court judges Israel Desierto '90, Maxwell Griffin, Jr., Donald Havis and Sybil Thomas '91. Chicago-Kent's participation in the competition is supported by a gift to the law school from the Chicago law firm of SmithAmundsen LLC.

The NBLSA mock court competition, established in 2002, is named for the Honorable Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American justice appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Known for his work as special counsel for the NAACP in the landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, Justice Marshall amassed an enviable trial record. As a civil rights attorney, he won 29 of the 32 cases he argued before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1940 and 1961. As a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, from 1961 to 1965, he made 112 rulings – none of which were reversed on certiorari by the U.S. Supreme Court. Appointed U.S. Solicitor General in 1965, he won 14 of the 19 cases he argued on behalf of the government. Justice Marshall was elevated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Johnson in 1967, where he served until his retirement in 1991. He died in 1993.

Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. Chicago-Kent's trial advocacy teams have won numerous individual student honors and regional and national competitions, including the 1988, 2007 and 2008 National Trial Competition championships. In 2008, Chicago-Kent became the first law school to win both the National Trial Competition and the National Moot Court Competition in the same year.

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Introducing IIT Chicago-Kent's newest faculty members

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Visiting Assistant Professor Wendy Netter Epstein joins us from the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where she was a partner in the litigation practice group, focusing primarily on commercial and class action litigation. She teaches Legal Writing this fall. Read more...

Research Professor Jerry Goldman is founder and director of the Oyez Project, a widely utilized multimedia archive devoted to the U.S. Supreme Court and its work. A longtime faculty member of Northwestern University's Department of Political Science, he brings his expertise in developing computer applications for research and teaching to the law school. Read more...

Visiting Assistant Professor Cherish M. Keller joins us from the law firm of Winston & Strawn LLP, where she was an associate in the litigation practice group. An experienced adjunct professor in our legal writing program, she will now focus on teaching legal writing to international LLM students. Read more...

Professor Adrian Walters comes to us from Nottingham Law School in England to join the faculty as the Ralph L. Brill Professor of Law. As such, he holds the law school's first endowed faculty chair. A scholar of bankruptcy and corporate law, Professor Walters teaches Bankruptcy, International Bankruptcy, and Business Organizations during this academic year. Read more...

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IIT Chicago-Kent wins the National Cultural Heritage Law Moot Court Competition

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CHICAGO–March 7, 2011--The IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law team of Bryan Bienias, Stephen Gardner and Caitlyn Jones has won the 2nd annual National Cultural Heritage Law Moot Court Competition. A second Chicago-Kent team, Jessie McKenzie, Kelly Silver and Britt Steinberg, won the Best Brief award. Seventeen teams competed in the competition sponsored by DePaul University College of Law and the Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation held February 25 and 26 at the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago.

From left: The Chicago-Kent team of (from left) Bryan Bienias, Caitlyn Jones and Stephen Gardner, winners of the 2011 National Cultural Heritage Law Moot Court Competition

This year's competition dealt with the recovery of stolen art works and the Immunity from Seizure Act. The students argued a case in which the granddaughter of a refugee sought to recover damages for the value of a painting that was looted and stolen from Austria during World War II. At issue was whether a federal law protecting art exhibitions from seizure bars a suit for damages and whether the equitable defense of laches bars an action filed 60 years after the artwork went missing.

Winning Chicago-Kent team member Bryan Bienias, a second-year student, earned an undergraduate degree in management with a minor in sound engineering from Columbia College. (Bienias also received individual honors as runner-up for the Best Oral Advocate award.) Teammate Stephen Gardner, a second-year student, is a graduate of Winthrop University with a major in economics and a minor in business administration. Teammate Caitlyn Jones is a second-year student who graduated from Boston College with a major in political science and a minor in Chinese. The team was coached by senior Moot Court Honor Society members Dan Basler, Elizabeth Kim and Megan Pekala.

After strong performances in three preliminary rounds, the winning Chicago-Kent team defeated John Marshall Law School in the quarterfinals and defending champions Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in the semifinals. In the final round, Chicago-Kent beat South Texas College of Law for the championship.

From left: The Chicago-Kent team of Britt Steinberg, Jessie McKenzie and Kelly Silver, winners of the Best Brief award in the 2011 National Cultural Heritage Law Moot Court Competition

Judging the final round of competition were the Honorable William J. Bauer and the Honorable David F. Hamilton, both of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; the Honorable Mary L. Mikva of the Circuit Court of Cook County; and the Honorable Warren Wolfson, a retired Illinois Appellate Court justice and interim dean at DePaul University College of Law.

A second Chicago-Kent team comprised of second-year students Jessie McKenzie, Kelly Silver and Britt Steinberg won the tournament's Best Brief award. Jessie McKenzie graduated from Purdue University with a major in communications and a minor in law and society. Teammate Kelly Silver graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in English. Teammate Britt Steinberg majored in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The team, which was coached by Moot Court Honor Society members Grant Shackelford and Shannon Smith, advanced to the semifinal round of the competition.

Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. In 2008 and 2009, Chicago-Kent won the National Moot Court Competition, the largest appellate advocacy tournament in the United States. In 2008, Chicago-Kent became the first law school to win both the National Trial Competition and the National Moot Court Competition in the same year.

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Justice Stephen G. Breyer delivers dynamic address at launch of IIT Chicago-Kent's new Institute on the Supreme Court

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The IIT Chicago-Kent community is saddened by the recent death of John A. (Jack) Wing, a national leader in the financial services industry, a former IIT trustee, and for many years the executive director of IIT's Center for Law and Financial Markets.

The former board chairman and chief executive officer of ABN AMRO, Jack began his career as a financial analyst and trial lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission. He later served as vice president, general counsel and eventually president of A.G. Becker & Co., and as CEO of The Chicago Corporation, where he was instrumental in expanding the firm into a major full-service regional investment banking and brokerage firm.

During his career Jack served on the boards of the Chicago (Midwest) Stock Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, and First Chicago Bank & Trust, among other organizations. While directing IIT's Center for Law and Financial Markets, he held the post of Frank Wakely Gunsaulus Professor of Law and Finance.

Jack was an invaluable asset to our law school, bringing his energy, his intelligence, and his celebrated acumen in financial services to bear on the professional education of countless students. We extend our condolences to his wife Joan '74, son Willy, and daughters Elisabeth and Mary Ellen.

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IIT Chicago-Kent to co-sponsor a Chicago mayoral candidates forum about the city's environmental issues

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CHICAGO--November 30, 2010–IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law has joined with the Foresight Design Initiative to present "Who Will Earn Your Green Vote?," a Chicago mayoral candidates forum to address environmental issues in the city. The program will be held December 6 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the law school's Governor Richard B. Ogilvie Auditorium, 565 West Adams Street (between Clinton and Jefferson streets) in Chicago.

Mayoral candidates Gery Chico, Miguel Del Valle, Rahm Emanuel, James Meeks and Carol Moseley-Braun have been invited to participate. Other candidates for mayor in the February 22, 2011, election will be invited to participate as their campaigns are announced. Participants will present their environmental platforms and address whether their administrations will continue outgoing Mayor Daley's "Green Chicago" initiative.

The candidates' forum is open to the public, but pre-registration is required. A catered reception will follow the forum. Tickets cost between $5 and $22.
To register, please visit the event website: dec6greendrinks.eventbrite.com.

Foresight Design Initiatives is a Chicago-based company which has supported and connected the city's sustainability movement since 2003. That year, Foresight Design Initiatives established a "Green Drinks" program, which is the city's "oldest and best-known sustainability gathering." Foresight Green Drinks is part of the international "Green Drinks" movement with activities that attract a wide range of people from academia, business, government and NGOs in nearly 800 cities worldwide.

Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. In the mid-1980s, Chicago-Kent established one of the first specialty programs in energy and environmental law, and has long been recognized as a leader in the field. The Chicago Environmental Law Clinic, launched in 1999, is a collaboration between the Chicago Legal Clinic, Inc., and Chicago-Kent that provides access to justice to clients who would otherwise be unrepresented in urban environmental matters that directly affect the health, safety and welfare of their families and communities.

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IIT Chicago-Kent and Sejong University create a graduate program for Korean lawyers

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CHICAGO--June 29, 2011–IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and Sejong University recently signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a graduate study program for Korean lawyers. The agreement was signed June 14 in Chicago by Dean Yul Lee of the Graduate School of Business at Sejong University and Chicago-Kent Dean Harold J. Krent. The signing was witnessed by Sejong University Professor Bryan E. Hopkins and Edward C. Harris, assistant dean and associate professor for international LL.M. programs at Chicago-Kent.

Under the terms of the agreement with Sejong University, practicing Korean lawyers will take a two-semester law program, taught in English by Chicago-Kent faculty in Seoul. Upon successful completion of the program, the lawyers will be eligible to come to the United States to pursue a master of laws (LL.M.) degree in international and comparative law from Chicago-Kent by completing an additional year of course work.

Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. Chicago-Kent also offers special LL.M programs and overseas training programs in Prishtina, Kosovo; Beijing and Shanghai, China; Gdansk and Wroclaw, Poland; Bangkok, Thailand; Kharkiv, Ukraine; and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez '86 to address 2011 IIT Chicago-Kent graduates

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CHICAGO--April 25, 2011–Anita Alvarez, Cook County State's Attorney and a 1986 graduate of IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, will deliver the keynote address at the law school's 2011 Commencement on Sunday, May 15, at 2:30 p.m. The ceremony will be held at the UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Rd., in Chicago.

Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, Class of 1986

Alvarez made history when she was sworn in on December 1, 2008, as the Cook County State's Attorney. The first female and first Latina elected to this position, she is also the first career prosecutor to hold this post, having spent her entire legal career serving the victims of violent crime.

She began her career in the State's Attorney's Office in 1986 and worked her way up through the ranks, handling hundreds of felony cases along the way. These cases ranged from homicides, narcotics and armed robberies to criminal sexual assaults and domestic violence cases. She has argued before the Illinois Appellate Court and handled more than 50 felony jury trials.

In her capacity as State's Attorney, Alvarez leads the second largest prosecutor's office in the nation, supervising more than 1,600 employees whose primary responsibilities involve prosecuting violent crime and seeking justice on behalf of crime victims and their families.

A lifelong Chicagoan, Alvarez was born and raised in Chicago's Pilsen community. She is a graduate of Maria High School and Loyola University, and received her J.D. from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, design and law.

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Chicago-Kent to co-sponsor a Chicago mayoral candidates forum focusing on ending violence against women, girls and LGBTQ people

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CHICAGO--January 25, 2011--IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law has joined with the Center on Halsted, Chicago Alliance against Sexual Exploitation, Chicago Foundation for Women, Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network and Rape Victim Advocates to present a Chicago mayoral candidates forum to address strategies for ending violence against women. The program will be held February 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the law school's Governor Richard B. Ogilvie Auditorium, 565 West Adams Street (between Clinton and Jefferson streets) in Chicago. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.

All mayoral candidates have been invited to participate. A reception beginning at 7:30 p.m. will follow.

According to the organizers, the leadership of the City of Chicago has a stake in developing strategies that concentrate on eradicating violence against women and a responsibility to protect the public. Sponsoring organizations are all committed to ending domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, prostitution and other forms of violence against women, girls and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and questioning (LGBTQ) people through direct services, policy and legislative advocacy, and public education.

This forum provides an opportunity for all candidates to educate the public on the strategies and plans they would implement, if elected, to address the issue of violence against women, girls and LGBTQ people. Allison Cuddy, host of WBEZ-FM's "Eight Forty-Eight," will moderate the discussion. Cuddy will ask the candidates questions gathered from the constituencies of the sponsoring organizations.

This nonpartisan community forum is free and open to the public. All sponsoring organizations are 501(c)(3) entities or organizations and do not support or oppose any candidates for public office. The use or distribution of campaign materials is prohibited at the forum. This is a nonpartisan event meant only for public education purposes.

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Sara Engbretson and Andrew Medeiros receive the 2011 Fleischman Family Awards for Excellence in Criminal Clinic

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CHICAGO--June 8, 2011–The 2011 Fleischman Family Awards for Excellence in Criminal Clinic at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law have been presented to Sara Engbretson '11 and Andrew Medeiros '12.

The awards, which include a cash stipend, are made at the end of the academic year to Chicago-Kent students who have demonstrated dedication to the criminal defense litigation program and who have provided "zealous advocacy" on behalf of the program's clients. Recipients are selected by Chicago-Kent faculty who teach in the law school's certificate program in criminal litigation.

Sara Engbretson received her J.D. degree on May 15. Engbretson completed her undergraduate education in psychology, with a minor in biology, at the University of Chicago. At Chicago-Kent, she completed a judicial externship with the Honorable Allen S. Goldberg of the Cook County Circuit Court, and worked as a legal researcher for the Cacciatore Law Group in Chicago.

"Ms. Engbretson recently concluded her third semester in clinic, having commenced in May of 2010," said criminal defense attorney and clinical professor Daniel T. Coyne. "During her time in clinic, she has utilized her Illinois Supreme Court Rule 711 permit to its fullest, conducting numerous depositions of experts in connection with the Illinois Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act, arguing collateral remedy motions before the presiding judge of the criminal division, and defending a client in a jury trial against involuntary commitment pursuant to the SVPCA. In addition to her courtroom activities, she has demonstrated admirable tenacity in pursuing factual investigations and in researching legal issues."

Andrew Medeiros is a third-year student who earned his undergraduate degree in communication studies from Seton Hall University. Prior to law school, Medeiros worked as a news desk editor for NBA.com and NBA Entertainment and as a web producer for the North Jersey Media Group and NorthJersey.com. At Chicago-Kent, he is a member of the law review, serves as student manager of the Self-Help Web Center at the Daley Center and is first vice-president of the Military Law Society. Medeiros has served as a research assistant for clinical professor Richard Kling and has worked with him in the criminal defense clinic since August 2010. He has completed a legal externship with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Medeiros will spend the summer at Scott Air Force Base as a JAG intern with the Advocate General Corps.

"Andrew has worked tirelessly on a number of serious state and federal cases, days, evenings, weekends, and vacations, is a team player, works well with others, takes direction, and exercises initiative," said criminal defense attorney and clinical professor Richard S. Kling. "In short, if I were able to hire associates, he would certainly be at the top of the list."

The Fleischman Family Awards for Excellence in Criminal Clinic were established by Chicago-Kent alumni and criminal defense attorneys Jack and Sidney Z. Fleischman in 2008 to recognize outstanding students in the criminal defense section of the Chicago-Kent Law Offices. In establishing the award, the Fleischmans also pay tribute to the contributions made to Chicago's legal community by their late grandfather, former Cook County Circuit Court judge Phillip A. Fleischman, and their father, attorney Marshall A. Fleischman.

Jack and Sidney Fleischman are identical twins who participated in Chicago-Kent's criminal law clinic before they earned their law degrees in 1987. The Fleischman brothers currently are partners in their own criminal defense law firm, Fleischman & Fleischman, P.A., located in Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach, Florida. Jack began his career with the Public Defender's Office in Palm Beach County. Sidney worked with the Cook County and Broward County State's Attorney offices before entering private practice with his brother.

Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. Chicago-Kent's Certificate Program in Criminal Litigation is designed to give students a comprehensive and balanced professional education that prepares them for the practice of criminal law. The Chicago-Kent Law Offices is a teaching law firm whose dual mission is to provide high-quality clinical education to the more than 150 student interns and externs who enroll each semester and to deliver outstanding legal services to its clients.

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IIT Chicago-Kent's U.S. Supreme Court Intellectual Property Review is September 15

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CHICAGO–August 30, 2011--The Honorable Kathleen O'Malley, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; the Honorable James F. Holderman, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois; and the Honorable David Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), will participate in "Challenges of IP Cases and Administration in the 21st Century," a colloquy on judging and administering intellectual property cases. The discussion is part of IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law's 2011 U.S. Supreme Court Intellectual Property Review (SCIPR). The one-day conference, which begins at 8:45 a.m. on September 15, will be held at the law school, 565 West Adams Street (between Clinton and Jefferson streets), in Chicago. A reception will immediately follow the conference.

"As the U.S. Supreme Court continues to hear multiple intellectual property cases each year, the importance of IP law is undeniable," said Professor Edward Lee, director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law. "IIT Chicago-Kent is honored to have Judge Kathleen O'Malley, Judge James Holderman, and USPTO Director David Kappos as speakers at our SCIPR 2011 conference. Our program also includes many of the top IP scholars and Supreme Court litigators in the nation. For those interested in IP, SCIPR 2011 should not be missed."

Leading members of the U.S. Supreme Court bar, intellectual property practice, academia, and the judiciary will review Supreme Court IP cases decided in the 2010-11 term?-Costco v. Omega, S.A.; Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S.A.; Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.; and Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Limited Partnership. Participants will also discuss cert petitions to watch and preview cases on the docket for the 2011-12 term, including Golan v. Holder.

Other speakers include R. (Ted) Edward Cruz of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (counsel for SEB); Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and co-director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at NYU; David C. Frederick of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel PLLC (counsel for the State of Vermont in Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc.); Seth D. Greenstein of Constantine Cannon LLP; Mark A. Lemley, William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School; Edward Lee, IIT Chicago-Kent professor and director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law (former counsel for Golan et al.); Aaron M. Panner of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel PLLC (counsel for Omega); Carter G. Phillips of Sidley Austin LLP; Lawrence Rosenberg of Jones Day (counsel for Stanford University); IIT Chicago-Kent Professor David L. Schwartz; Eric J. Schwartz of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP; IIT Chicago-Kent Professor Carolyn Shapiro; and Paul Wolfson of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. Wolfson represented Roche in Stanford v. Roche and i4i in Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Limited Partnership, both of which were decided during the past term.

General registration for the conference is $30; $15 for non-IIT Chicago-Kent academics and students; and free to IIT Chicago-Kent faculty and students. For more information or to register, please contact Patricia O'Neal at (312) 906-5128 or ipconference@kentlaw.edu or visit the website: http://ipconference.kentlaw.edu/.

This conference is co-sponsored by IIT Chicago-Kent's Program in Intellectual Property Law; IIT Chicago-Kent's Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States; Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.; Husch Blackwell LLP; McAndrews, Held & Malloy Ltd.; McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP; Niro Haller & Niro; and Seyfarth Shaw LLP.

IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. IIT Chicago-Kent currently offers a J.D. certificate program in intellectual property law and in 2002 became the first American law school to offer a one-year LL.M degree in International Intellectual Property Law.

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Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow Is IIT Chicago-Kent's 2011 Centennial Visitor

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CHICAGO--April 1, 2011–Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow has been named IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law's Centennial Visitor for 2011. Dean Minow will deliver the 2011 Centennial Lecture, "In Brown's Wake: Reassessing the School Equality Landmark," at 3:30 p.m. on April 12 in the Governor Richard B. Ogilvie Auditorium at Chicago-Kent College of Law, 565 West Adams Street (between Clinton and Jefferson streets) in Chicago. The lecture is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested. (RSVP to Dawn Young at dyoung@kentlaw.edu or 312.906.5003) A reception will follow the lecture.

Dean Martha Minow of Harvard Law School is Chicago-Kent's 2011 Centennial Visitor

Dean Minow joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 1981. She was named the William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Law in 2003 and became the Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Professor of Law in 2005. Dean Minow also serves as a lecturer in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She was named to the deanship of the law school in July 2009, shortly after her predecessor, Elena Kagan (now a U.S. Supreme Court Justice), was confirmed as U.S. Solicitor General.

Dean Minow is a distinguished legal scholar whose interests range from international human rights to equality and inequality, from religion and pluralism to managing mass tort litigation, from family law and education law to the privatization of military, schooling, and other governmental activities. She is a senior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows as well as a past member of the Harvard University Press Board of Syndics.

In addition to many articles in legal and other journals, Minow's publications include the books Partners, Not Rivals: Privatization and the Public Good (2002); Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law, and Repair (2002); Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (1998); Not Only for Myself: Identity, Politics, and the Law (1997); and Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law (1990). She is co-editor of casebooks on civil procedure, women and the law, and family law, as well as volumes including Government by Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy (2009, with Jody Freeman); Just Schools: Pursuing Equality in Societies of Difference (2008, with Richard Shweder and Hazel Rose Markus); Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies (2002, with Shweder and Markus); and Law Stories: Law, Meaning, and Violence (1996, with Gary Bellow).

Dean Minow has taught courses on a wide range of subjects, including civil procedure, constitutional law (with a focus on the First Amendment, the structure of government, and the 14th Amendment), nonprofit organizations, family law, law and education, jurisprudence, and the legal profession.

After completing her undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan, Dean Minow received a master's degree in education from Harvard and her law degree from Yale. She clerked for Judge David Bazelon of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. The Centennial Visitor lecture series was inaugurated in fall 1987 as part of a year-long celebration to mark the founding of Chicago College of Law, forerunner of IIT Chicago-Kent, in 1888. Previous lecturers have included Hon. Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit; Hon. Stephen M. Schwebel of the International Court of Justice in the Hague, and economist Jagdish Bhagwati.

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Chicago-Kent's 32nd annual Kenneth M. Piper Lecture will address "Family Responsibilities Discrimination in the Great Recession"

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CHICAGO–March 19, 2010--Joan C. Williams, distinguished professor of law, 1066 Foundation chair and founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, will deliver the 32nd annual Kenneth M. Piper Lecture. Professor Williams will address the topic "Family Responsibilities Discrimination in the Great Recession: Impact of the EEOC Guidelines."

Distinguished Professor Joan C. Williams of the University of California Hastings College of the Law

Professor Williams' lecture will examine the impact of the increasing number of lawsuits filed by mothers under Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Guidelines. She will discuss how and why these lawsuits have a much higher success rate than those of other employment discrimination lawsuits, even though three-fourths of those laid off during the Great Recession were men. Professor Williams will explore how these themes interact.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held April 6 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Chicago-Kent's Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie Auditorium, 565 West Adams St. (between Clinton and Jefferson streets) in Chicago.

Professor Williams teaches a seminar on current issues of work-life law and courses in feminist legal theory and property at Hastings College of Law. She also serves as co-director of the Project for Attorney Retention, an initiative of the Center for WorkLife Law, considered one of the most influential forces in the country on work/life issues in the legal profession. The initial report -- Balanced Hours: Effective Part-Time Policies for Washington Law Firms -- has been widely used by law firms to revamp their policies, as well as by individual lawyers seeking to negotiate part-time schedules or to critique their firm's policies.

Professor Williams is the author of Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It (Oxford University Press 2000), which won the 2000 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. Her 1989 article Deconstructing Gender has been listed as one of the most-cited law review articles ever written. Professor Williams has authored or co-authored four books and more than 50 law review articles. Her work is reprinted in casebooks on six different subjects. She lectures widely and has given over 250 speeches and presentations in North and Latin America and at virtually every leading U.S. university.

Professor Williams earned her undergraduate degree in history, with a concentration in medieval history from Yale University. She received her J.D./M.A from Harvard Law School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's joint program.

Deidra L. Byrd, division vice president of employee relations at Walgreen Co., and Stephen B. Moldof, partner in the New York law firm of Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP, are leading labor and employment lawyers who will comment on the lecture from union and management perspectives.

No reservations are required. Attorneys who attend are eligible for 1.25 hours of Illinois Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit. For more information, visit www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle on the Web or call (312) 906-5090.

The annual Kenneth M. Piper Lecture is sponsored by Chicago-Kent College of Law's Institute for Law and the Workplace. It is presented by the Kenneth M. Piper Endowment, which was established by a gift from Mrs. Kenneth M. Piper in memory of her husband. Mr. Piper was a distinguished executive with Motorola, Inc., and Bausch & Lomb, Inc., who made important contributions in human resources and labor relations for more than two decades.

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Chicago-Kent student Katherine Jahnke receives 2010 Lowell Jacobson Scholarship Award

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CHICAGO--September 10, 2010–Katherine Jahnke, a 2011 J.D. candidate at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, has received the 2010 Lowell Jacobson Scholarship Award. The scholarship was established by the American Counsel Association in memory of Lowell H. Jacobson, a past president of the organization. Mr. Jacobson was a Cook County Circuit Court magistrate from 1963 to 1967. At the time of his death in 1988, he was a senior partner in the Chicago law firm Jacobson, Brandvik & Anderson specializing in corporate law.

From left: Dean Harold J. Krent, Katherine Jahnke '11 and Pamela Bresnahan of the American Counsel Association.

The Lowell Jacobson Scholarship Award is given annually to a third-year student from a law school in Illinois, Indiana or Wisconsin?-the three states within the jurisdiction of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Katherine Jahnke, a 2011 candidate for a J.D. degree with a certificate in litigation and alternative dispute resolution, earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas with a double major in political science and English. At Chicago-Kent, she currently serves as executive articles editor of the Chicago-Kent Law Review and as managing editor of the Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law. Jahnke is also president of the Chicago-Kent division of UNA-USA and secretary of Women in Law.

Jahnke has worked as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of DLA Piper US LLP. She also served as a legal intern in the law school's Employment Discrimination and Civil Rights Clinic and as a law clerk at Smith, Hemmesch, Burke, Brannigan & Guerin in Chicago. Jahnke completed a judicial externship with U.S. District Court Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan of the Northern District of Illinois. In the summer of 2009 she served as an intern with the Women's Legal Centre Trust in South Africa, where she researched a variety of legal issues related to "clients' individual circumstances and advocacy issues."

Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law.

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IIT Board of Trustees names Richard W. Wright Distinguished Professor of Law

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CHICAGO–April 20 , 2010--The Illinois Institute of Technology Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of Richard W. Wright as a Distinguished Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Distinguished professor is the highest faculty rank at the university and is reserved for a small number of senior faculty members, nominated by their own faculties and deans and approved by a university-wide committee of existing distinguished professors and chairs.

Distinguished Professor Richard W. Wright

A member of the Chicago-Kent faculty since 1985, Professor Wright's teaching and research focus on domestic and comparative tort law, jurisprudence, law and economics, and law and artificial intelligence. Prior to joining the Chicago-Kent faculty, he was a member of the faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, where he received the Monrad G. Paulsen Award for outstanding contributions to legal education.

Professor Wright has also been a visiting professor at the University of Texas School of Law; a visiting lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the Universidad Torcuato di Tella Law School in Argentina; a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia, where he delivered the Sir George Turner Lectures and taught in the graduate law program; and a visiting fellow at Brasenose College and visiting lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford in England, where he co-taught seminars in the Bachelor of Civil Law graduate law program. Professor Wright's published work appears in several international collections of leading scholarship on tort law and legal philosophy.

Professor Wright is a member of the American Law Institute and has been an active participant in its revision of the Restatement of the Law Third on Torts, including serving as an Adviser to the Reporters for the Restatement on Apportionment of Liability. He also has served as a member of the executive committee and as chair of the Section on Torts and Compensation Systems of the Association of American Law Schools. Professor Wright is a member of the Advisory Board of the Torts, Product Liability and Insurance Law Journal of the Social Science Research Network and the Board of Advisers of the Journal of Tort Law and the Center for Justice and Democracy.

Professor Wright earned a bachelor of science degree with honors from the California Institute of Technology. He graduated summa cum laude from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where he was editor-in-chief of the law review. Professor Wright received his LL.M. from Harvard Law School.

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Survey: UK cheapest for international arbitration

Thursday, 29 September 2011 by Catherine Baksi

The UK is the cheapest and most popular venue for international arbitration, according to an authoritative published this week.

About 74% of the party, the cost in international arbitration by external costs and external charges are taken into account are the 26% higher in Europe, it found.

The survey, the Chartered Institute of arbitrators, found that plaintiff costs £ 1.540.000 in the UK, compared with £ 1.685.000 in Europe, a difference of 8% on average.

Party costs almost 13% in civil law were countries (on average £ 1.521.000) as common countries quite where the average expenditure was £ 1.348.000.

The survey showed the common costs of the arbitration proceedings, such as arbitration, were over 18% in Europe and the United Kingdom.
Overall, it is noted that plaintiff was 12% more than the respondents and the average length of an arbitration 17-20 months.

The United Kingdom was the seat of the most popular arbitration.

The survey was completed by 254 of practicing arbitrators and lawyers from five countries, of which 32% from the United Kingdom have been.
CIArb President Doug Jones said that the survey was requested by concerns about the cost of international arbitration and lack of facts on the subject.

He said: "In these tough economic times it is more important than ever for international arbitration, cost-efficient processes to follow, without the delivery of Justice in commercial matters."

Jones said it was that the United Kingdom as the cheapest came out "interesting and surprising".

' London law firms have the label as a very expensive. So that if this result on the survey sample is true, it dissolves very interesting questions, "he added."

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Squatting law 'wrong'

Thursday, September 29, 2011

More than 150 housing lawyers have Minister throws an open letter give misleading statements about squat and inaccurate reporting not signed challenge.

You claimed that some media have repeated the Act on squat reported and 'demanded sensationalist'. Ministers, including housing Minister grant Shapps, have "the myths around squat peddling is encouraged ' added to it."

The letter was published in the guardian on Monday. See tinyurl.com/3gv4u3g.

High flyers pays less

Magic circle trainees expect repay tens of thousands of pounds less on their student debt as a similar background to pursue a less lucrative career.

To date, far more in interest to pay, because they pay off their loans, according to a report by Grant Thornton, the financial soundness of the higher education sector much longer takes low to middle income groups.

New M & –a support service

360 Legal group has with legal recruiter Jepson Holt advice, M & A 360 launch legal Jepson Holt. The Group offers what is claimed to the first comprehensive legal mergers and acquisitions support service, post merger integration of evaluation and preparation of the merger, to be through to gain.

Majority amounted to BOD

The Bar Standards Board has appointed five new Board lay people until their contributions will take in January 2012, the Council for the first time since its inception in 2006 location majority will be.

Technology agreements

Lawyers have given permission, cell phones and laptops in police detention areas, under an agreement between the law society and the Association of Chief Police officers. See tinyurl.com/6cbf7f5.

ABS high street plea

The Solicitors Regulation Authority called for presented by alternative business structures to promote high-street firms. Samantha Barrass, executive Director of supervision, risks, and standards, Association, said the transfer of ownership would, that the SRA begin registration section in December.

Barrass, ABS present a great opportunity for high-street firms and local real estate agent, add, said: "I would be surprised if not trying to use these reforms to extend their services." See lawgazette.co.uk/news.

Trading standards fears

Deep funding cuts trading standards can cause that the Organization, the legal services to neglect and let consumers operators, watchdog exposed to predators, which warned consumer legal services. It was a response to a consultation by the Department for business, innovation and skills to empowering consumers. See lawgazette.co.uk/-News.

Centre on the edge

Greenwich Community law Centre faces closure, after the Municipal Council of their funding reduced. London Borough is, money for the citizens advice Bureau, Greenwich housing rights and Plumstead Community law Centre distract. See lawgazette.co.uk/news.

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Fixed fees 'ban be renegotiated after referring'

Wednesday, 28 September 2011 by Rachel Rothwell

Plaintiff lawyers fees under traffic accidents portal system due to the upcoming ban on referral fees must be renegotiated, the Ministry of Justice, has today confirmed the Gazette.

An MoJ spokesman said that the fees have been calculated, would have to be to get paid from damaged work, including an adjustment for commissions.

He said the MoJ hopes that the plaintiffs and defendants would be the lawyers capable of a business through negotiations, which, to achieve, how they had, as the fixed charges originally agreed by third parties.

However, he said, if this doesn't work, MoJ was even ready to facilitate an agreement.

The spokesman said that not even related to the fixed rates had begun, as the MoJ was what do you mean a referral fee still in the stage of definition.

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Referral fees will be criminalized straw confident PI

Thursday, 29 September 2011 by John Hyde

Jack Straw is confident that he criminalize commissions his high-profile offer to personal injury will succeed. The former Justice Secretary believes that the Government to take over the sanction will amend its reforms of the civil matters.

She MP said for Blackburn yesterday, that labour's 2004 had created legalization fees conditions by changes to the code of conduct in the year, which pushed up motor insurance premiums.

Earlier this month, straw introduced a 10-minute rule Bill calling for payment of personal injury referral fees as a criminal case be treated. His initiative was soon, after the Government announced that a ban would be introduced again for PI cases.

At an event said organized by iloveclaims.com on Wednesday, he believes, to consider his proposal of the Government final legislation straw.

He said: "you can sometimes a civil matter makes these things handle, but if you want the industry of referral fees, then you have to make it a criminal offence."

"I am not in doubt, this is done." The Government's intention, it is part of new clauses in the Bill [legal aid, conviction and punishment of the perpetrators].

"When that happens, I also say that to those in this process in my judgment be vulnerable in serious cases under the bribery Act."

Straw, which for a ban on all legal services and not just personal injury, confirmed his view that commissions include a"thugs" to increase the cost and insurance premiums, which send rising.

And he mocked in order the overarching control last year, banning exclude given legal services Board research, she describes as 'Blah' led. He added: 'they [LSB] white not, what the public feels, and have not found.'

Straw was optimistic when asked to comment on the perception that he "has been gazumped by the Government had".

He said "Ken Clarke what any sensible State Secretary would do in the face of broad consensus in the Chamber, that change his Cabinet colleagues to get their previous position,".

"I not Ken neither criticize I think he was to do in low politics."

A LSB spokesman said: ' after a review of the impact of the commissions on the market of legal services as a whole, LSB concluded that it no legal case for a blanket ban. Our decision was informed by analysis of a comprehensive evidence base.

""The announcement by Government, relating to the control"compensation culture", concerns only personal injury and extended well above the market for legal services. We will continue to work, Government, to ensure that all specific implications for the legal services regulators be understood.'

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High street, ABS, should include, says regulator

Wednesday, 28 September 2011 by Catherine Baksi

The Solicitors Regulation Authority called high street companies to be proactive and seize the opportunities by alternative business structures.

Managing Director of the regulatory authority for, risks and standards, Samantha Barrass, said that the SRA hopes to start the registration of ABS in December.

Barrass, said at a meeting of the club ownership, that ABS opportunities for high-street firms.

She said that it will not only the big companies that enter the ABS market and advise to secure smaller companies proactively about their future.

She said: "there is a great opportunity for high-street firms and local real estate agent, so that I would be surprised, if they try not to use these reforms, to focus their business and to expand their service offerings."

The SRA modified schedule for the registration of ABS, barras said: "We share the frustration of potential ABS applicants about the delay in the implementation of, and work with the legal services Board and Department of Justice to early clarity about the parliamentary timetable."

Chairman of the transfer of ownership Association Eddie Goldsmith said: "We know that the current market conditions have created to improve a"perfect storm"and a valuable opportunity for serious Conveyancers proactively to innovations and their services."

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Chancery Lane criticized bar 'special pleading'

Wednesday, 28 September 2011 by Catherine Baksi

The law society has concern about the Criminal Bar Association intention on the judiciary with his concerns about the controversial quality assurance scheme for advocates (QASA) expressed.

A law society spokesman said: "it is amazing that the bar should try to involve senior justice on this issue, since it would be wrong of course, if the justice is perceived to be, to a certain sector of the profession compared to other support."

He said there were "material weaknesses" in the QASA system, and the company has also reservations about it.

But he added: ' a big advantage [schema] will be that an advocate for the job as by their title is paid. We demand the Services Commission strongly legal, special pleading, a small, ranging from the bar to resist. "

The law society comments follow an e-Mail last week by CBA said Chair Max Hill QC, where he plans criminal lawyers of LSC, Crown Court payments to the level of competence achieved proponents to link higher payments to silk under QASA, and at the end.

Hill's e-Mail was followed by a meeting with the LSC, where he said that the proposals for the first time was mentioned.

He said QASA was never intended that affect to replace remuneration or silk, and that he planned to take these matters with the judiciary.

However the Chair of the Solicitors Association of higher court of advocates, Jo Cooper, who gave the same LSC take part, it said 'nothing new' in the proposals and that the LSC had informed lawyers 2009 about his plans for linking pay rates case level.

Cooper criticized also the CAB for aim include the justice in what he said was a legal question.

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Partners represent man in murder trial

Thursday, 29 September 2011 by Jonathan Rayner

, Die? Colin Byrne, 39, criminal defence partner at York company Howard & Byrne.

Why he is in the news? Andrew Lindo, 29, was last week was jailed for life for murder of his fiancée and serve at least 22 years represented.

Lindo Holmfirth, West tried Yorkshire Marie Stewart strangle before battering her with a wooden chair, the face in bubble wrap and stabbed her at least eight times with a knife.

Then, he hid her body in the garage of the House, that he, together loads with Stewart in the same night of the murder, the House and the night with her to spend a girlfriend. The police discovered eight weeks later Stewart's body.

Conviction Lindo at Bradford Crown Court, Mr Justice Andrew Smith told him that he is a ' exceptional and dissuasive lack of remorse "had shown after the assassination, and that also, after he had served his sentence, the question must be asked," whether your state of mind sufficiently for it that you can safely be understood '.

Thoughts on the case: ' The case was interesting, factual and legal, because it was the first murder trial defense with "Loss of control" after the coroner and Justice Act 2009 decreased as this particular defense was defined.

"On a personal note I of the family of the late felt with large would during the trial behavior."

Why become lawyer? "I believe in accountability and justice, and that by drawing both can reach one."

Career high: "Won the criminal legal aid lawyer of the year 2007." Also the first Attorney for the same defendant in police station will act, magistrates court proceedings, Crown Court, Court of appeal and confiscation. "

Career low: ' When newly qualified, crashes my car in the car of the judge, who was to listen to me in court. She was unhurt, but recused himself. She was ­lovely of them all. "

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New SRA manual online

Friday, 30 September 2011 by Jonathan Rayner

The final version of the new manual of Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has been booked online now.

The Handbook, which including the updated code of conduct, to the introduction of the results to substantiate-oriented Regulation (OFR) on 6 October. It prepared the SRA in consultation with lawyers, consumer groups and other stakeholders.

The manual is printed on 532 pages, but is suitable for viewing online. Useful online features include a guide, new, advanced search options and an updates section.

The SRA is also a printed version in book form the end of October.

A new practice note on the website of the law society ' results-oriented regulation: Überblick, will provide further assistance.

From 6 October all lawyers and law firms are regulated by the SRA the new regulatory approaches. This is extended are owners of companies which are not lawyers may, if the SRA able alternative business structures (ABS) rules is probably at the turn of the year.

SRA Chief Executive Antony Townsend said: "The guide describes fully we have framework in place to make the consumer at the heart of the legal advice." As easy as possible to use it makes sense therefore to this guide.

"So it was created only in this way, so that it is easy to navigate and easy to find." This should help, the profession sets the consumers mentioned principles of the OFR, and provides for resources are provided in areas where they are most needed. "

The manual can be read on the site of the SRA.

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Earnings increase in top 100 but remains 'Nervousness'

Thursday, 29 September 2011 by John Hyde

Fee income in the UK top 100 law firms, which increased by 4% in the first quarter over the same period in the year 2010, according to figures from Deloitte.

But the business advisory firm warned that the figures mask, the continued weakness in the British market and strong variations in the performance of different companies.

The company Q1 legal sector survey shows that one-sixth of the company July enjoyed a sales growth of more than 12% in the three months to 31, but a similar proportion of 4% or more suffered a decline.

Grow business with international presence tends to be higher on the back of more lively markets overseas.

Higher revenues were generated by a combination of increased productivity and fee earner workforce, which rose by 3.1% and 2.8% or.

Jeremy black, partner in Deloitte professional services group, said: "the increase in the fee revenues are up but mask should not the fact that conditions are generally difficult."

' Litigation has quite good but low M & A-activity means that companies remain lackluster sales.

"It is a general feeling of nervousness about the Outlook for the coming months domestic demand, which are expected to be weak and continue to pressure on prices."

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US lawmakers ask FTC to investigate Facebook over privacy concerns

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[JURIST] US Congressmen Edward Markey (D-MA) and Joe Barton (R-TX), co-chairs of the Congressional Privacy Caucus, sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [official websites] on Wednesday asking the FTC to investigate allegations that Facebook [website] is tracking users' activities even after they have logged out of the website [text, PDF]. Australian blogger Nik Cubrilovic [official website] broke the initial news [blog post] of Facebook tracking users and has since posted an update [blog post] stating that Facebook has since "changed as much as they can change with the logout issue." Nonetheless, the Congressmen cited a statement from Facebook Director of Engineering, Arturo Bejar, that fully fixing the logout issue "will take a while" in petitioning for a FTC investigation. They believe that Facebook's conduct possibly falls within 15 USC § 45 [text], section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act [text, PDF], which protects citizens from "unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce." The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) [advocacy website] sent a letter to the FTC calling for an investigation into Facebook's conduct [letter, PDF; press release] as well. EPIC contends that Facebook is tracking user data so that it may sell the data to third-parties. EPIC also has a complaint about Facebook's facial recognition system [text, PDF], which automatically "tags" users when others upload photos of them, currently pending before the FTC.

The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information [official website, in German] also filed a complaint over Facebook's facial recognition system in August, arguing that it violates European data protection laws [JURIST report]. In December South Korea stated that Facebook was not in compliance with the nation's data privacy laws [JURIST report]. The South Korean authorities especially took issue with Facebook's alleged policy of gathering users' data without first obtaining consent from them. The Canadian Office of the Privacy Commissioner [official website] announced in January 2010 that it would launch a probe [JURIST report] into complaints that the website was violating users' privacy. In August 2009 five Facebook users brought suit against Facebook in California, alleging that the social networking violated their privacy [JURIST report].

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Federal judge refuses to enjoin most of Alabama immigration law

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Dan Taglioli at 11:45 AM ET

[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on Wednesday refused to block key parts of Alabama's recently passed immigration law. Chief Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn, in a 115-page memorandum opinion [text, PDF], ruled that the federal government's challenge to the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act [HB 56 text] had not met the requirements for a preliminary injunction [AP report] on a majority of the act's provisions. Blackburn did enjoin enactment of certain specifications, but included only the four sections that would 1) make it a crime for an illegal immigrant to solicit work, 2) make it a crime to transport or harbor an illegal immigrant, 3) allow discrimination lawsuits against companies that dismiss legal workers while hiring illegal immigrants and 4) forbid businesses from taking tax deductions for wages paid to workers who are in the country illegally. In her evaluation of the requirements for judicial injunction of a legislative act, the judge the concluded:

that there is a substantial likelihood that the United States will succeed on the merits of its claim that Sections 11(a), 13, 16, and 17 of H.B. 56 are preempted by federal law. The court further finds that the United States will suffer irreparable harm if these sections of H.B. 56 are not enjoined, the balance of equities favors the entry of an injunction, and its entry would not be adverse to the public interest. Therefore, the Motion for Preliminary Injunction will be granted as to these sections.

Among the portions of the law that escaped the preliminary injunction are provisions that require immigration status checks of public school students and of suspects pulled over by police, allow police to hold suspected illegal immigrants without bond, bar state courts from enforcing contracts involving illegal immigrants, make it a felony for an illegal immigrant to do business with the state and make it a misdemeanor for an illegal resident not to have immigration papers. State decisions on whether to begin enforcing these provisions have not yet been announced [Reuters report], but last month's temporary injunction on the whole act [JURIST report] is set to expire at the end of this month. Republican Governor Robert Bentley [official website] said he would fight to get the full law upheld and the state's attorney general said officials were weighing whether to appeal immediately or wait until the judge issues her final decision.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website], joined by several rights groups, appeared before the court last month [JURIST report] to make arguments against the law's enactment, at which point Blackburn issued the temporary injunction to forestall enactment of the challenged provisions while she evaluated their contention with federal statute. Religious groups and representatives of several rights groups including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) [advocacy websites] have stated that the Alabama law is the most extreme of the recent state anti-immigration laws influenced by controversial Arizona SB 1070 [JURIST news archive]. Alabama lawmakers have defended the legislation, which was signed into law [JURIST reports] in June. Since that time, 16 countries filed briefs [JURIST report] in the Alabama district court against the controversial law, arguing that it provides unfair treatment to citizens of those countries currently residing in Alabama and sanctions discriminatory treatment based on ethnicity.

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USS Cole bombing suspect to face military tribunal at Guantanamo

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Dan Taglioli at 12:56 PM ET

[JURIST] The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] Wednesday officially referred charges against a high-profile Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee who allegedly planned the 2000 attack on the USS Cole [JURIST news archive] that left 17 sailors dead and 37 others injured. Saudi-born former millionaire Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri [JURIST news archive] will stand trial before a military tribunal [DOD press release] at Guantanamo on nine terrorism, conspiracy and murder charges [charge sheet, PDF]. Specifically al-Nashiri will be charged with orchestrating the attack on the Cole, during which two suicide bombers rammed an explosives-laden boat into the guided missile destroyer, blowing a vast hole into its side. The charges also allege that al-Nashiri was in charge of planning and preparation for an attempted attack in the same year on USS The Sullivans as it refueled in the Port of Aden, and for an attack on the French civilian oil tanker MV Limburg in the same port in 2002, which resulted in the death of one crewmember and the release of approximately 90,000 barrels of oil into the gulf. A "referral of charges" by the DOD Military Commissions unit is the mechanism that officially begins the process that leads to the appointment of a military officer as trial judge, who is then required to conduct an arraignment within 30 days of the referral. al-Nashiri's case has been referred for trial as a capital case, meaning he could face the death penalty if convicted. In June the European Parliament (EP) [official website] urged the US not to seek the death penalty [JURIST report] in the case.

Complicating his prosecution is the controversial history of al-Nashiri's detention. Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] agents confirmed [Spiegel report] in 2010 the existence of a secret CIA black site [JURIST news archive] in Poland, where al-Nashiri was allegedly waterboarded and subjected to mock executions. According to one agent, al-Nashiri was stripped naked and hooded before a gun and a drill were held close to his head. The allegations led the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) [advocacy website] to launch an abuse investigation [JURIST report] in September 2010. Section 948r of the Military Commissions Act of 2009 [text, PDF] prohibits the use in military courts of evidence obtained through "torture or cruel, degrading or inhuman treatment," a provision that could implicate potential limitations on the prosecutors' ability to use certain evidence if it can be established that al-Nashiri was subjected to such treatment in Poland or at Gitmo. Former Polish prime minister Leszek Miller denied any knowledge of such a facility [JURIST report]. Most recently, Polish prosecutors, who began investigating the potential existence of the Polish CIA prison in 2008, asked US officials [JURIST reports] to question al-Nashiri and fellow detainee Abu Zubaydah about the existence of the facility, saying their testimony was essential to establishing its existence. Relatedly, in 2007 a federal judge ruled that Sudan was liable [JURIST report] in a civil suit for government actions that "induced" the USS Cole bombing.

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