Sept. 2 - The Community Word
Stung by accusations of having a deaf ear about rape victims in the military, the Air Force has developed a pilot program to aggressively support rape victims as their cases move through the legal system. “It’s a fundamental shift in the way the Air Force has been doing business,” said O’Brien. He added he’s looking forward to serving as Judge Advocate for victims.
Sept. 4 - Digital Journal
The John Marshall Law School in Chicago is one of the first law schools in the nation to establish a comprehensive experiential learning program that gives students the hands-on skills that will make them practice ready.
Life Science Leader Sept. 5, 2013
China is an attractive pharmaceutical market, but...“Companies need to have good internal procedures in place to keep trade secrets confidential, and need to be able to show that they have taken reasonable precautions,” says Benjamin Liu, assistant professor, Chinese Intellectual Property Resource Center, The John Marshall Law School, U.S.
Philip Johnson has joined the Library and Technology Services staff as instructional and student services librarian. He is working with the Lawyering Skills faculty and will be one of the librarians assisting students and patrons at the reference desk.
Johnson is a transplant from Austin, Texas. He worked simultaneously on his JD from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was the technology editor for the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal, and a master’s degree in library science from the University of Texas School of Information. He graduated in May 2013. Johnson worked as a law clerk during law school, and he has worked at the Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas School Of Law.
Before completing his master’s and JD degrees, Johnson decided he would spend some time in service to others as part of Teach for America, a national teacher corps of college graduates and professionals who work to raise student achievement in public schools. Johnson worked in a middle school in Houston, Texas, teaching language arts. Though he enjoyed being with his students, Johnson said he realized teaching wasn’t his calling.
Johnson has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin. He was one of five distinguished graduates in the English department, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Maurice Jones, deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), will deliver the keynote address at the two-day conference “Implementing the Duty to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing” on Sept. 20 and 21, 2013, hosted by The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center and Clinic.
Jones will address participants at 9:15 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, on “HUD’s Duty to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing—What It Means and How It Is Being Implemented.”
His presentation will be followed by leading academics and practitioners discussing what the duty means and how fair housing laws should be implemented. The morning program will focus on federal, state and local governmental initiatives, particularly in the area of eliminating racial segregation. The afternoon session will focus on the financial crisis and the government’s duty to insure that it does not produce more rather than less segregation.
On Saturday, Sept. 21, the program will focus on the special problems experienced by persons with disabilities and how the government can ensure that these individuals have access to housing that meets their special needs.
Participants also will help the Clinic mark its 20th anniversary at an evening reception on Friday at 6:30 p.m. at the Cliff Dwellers Club.
The Friday program will open with a 9 a.m. introduction to the issue delivered by Professor Michael P. Seng, co-executive director of the Fair Housing Legal Support Center, discussing a year-long study the Center conducted on housing discrimination for the Illinois Department of Human Rights.
Following Jones’ address, the 10:15 a.m. session will be on “The Role of States and Local Government—The Consolidated Plan and the Analysis of Impediments and Compliance With the Fair Housing Act” given by Sara Pratt, deputy assistant secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), followed by a panel discussion with Sheryl Whitney, a partner at Whitney Jennings LLC; Daniel Lauber of the Law Office of Daniel Lauber; Joel Williams, executive director of PADS Lake County; and Maurice McGough, director, Region V, HUD.
The luncheon address at 12:45 p.m. on “The Role of Private Civil Rights Litigation for Damages and Equitable Relief in Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” will be given by Chris Brancart a partner at Brancart & Brancart.
The first afternoon session at 1:45 p.m. on “The Financial Crisis and Its Effect on the Duty to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing” will be discussed by James Carr, a consultant with Housing Finance, Banking and Urban Policy.
At 2:30 p.m. panelists for “The Role of Financial Regulators in Furthering Fair Housing” will include Pratt of HUD; David Berenbaum, chief program officer for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition; Stella Adams, executive director of the North Carolina Fair Housing Center, Inc.; and Spencer Cowan, vice president, Woodstock Institute.
Opening the second day of the conference at 9 a.m. will be a look at “The Duty to Affirmatively Further the Fair Housing Rights of Persons with Disabilities” with Karen Tamley, commissioner, Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities; Pratt of HUD; and Steve Rosenbaum, chief of the Housing and Civil Enforcement Section at the U.S. Department of Justice.
The final panel at 10:45 a.m. will focus on “Olmstead and the Duty to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing” with Kenneth Walden, managing attorney for Access Living; Jeanine Worden, associate general counsel at HUD; and Kevin Kijewski, deputy chief at the U.S. Department of Justice.
There is a $395 fee for this event. Registrations are being accepted at http://events.jmls.edu Attorneys can earn approximately 10.5 hours of CLE for this program.
Julie Tenuto (center), recipient of the Lupel & Amari Scholarship, is greeted by Leonard Amari, president of The John Marshall Law School Board of Trustees, and Assistant Dean Jodie Needham.
At a special luncheon Aug. 16, The John Marshall Law School brought together 25 donors in appreciation of their generosity that has enabled the Law School to award scholarships to outstanding students this academic year.
Dean John E. Corkery, in addressing the guests at The Standard Club luncheon, reminded the guests that “Your scholarships help our students by giving them the opportunity to develop themselves to the very best of their abilities and encourage our students as they strive for excellence.”
Corkery said by meeting the donors, students got to know leaders in the legal field who are committed to making a difference in the lives of others, especially through their generous support of the law school.
Third-year student Ruphene Sidifall, the 2012 recipient of the Ralph and Evelyn Ruebner Scholarship, spoke about her experience as a Liberian emigrant who escaped with her family at the height of the country’s civil war in 1996. When she arrived in the United States, she promised herself she would not give up on her dream of higher education and the study of law.
“I vowed to pursue the kind of career in law that ensures war criminals are held accountable for their actions,” said Sidifall. “I am learning to help others without reservation and expectation of a reward. I plan to give to a deserving student at John Marshall some kind of assistance in the future, as I was given by Dean and Mrs. Ruebner.”
Ralph Ruebner, associate dean for Academic Affairs at John Marshall, told donors their financial support is critical to helping the law school realize this mission—“To provide excellent legal education that prepares our graduates to practice law, to promote and embrace diversity and to create a community that shares the values and vision of our founders to have The John Marshall Law School become and be Chicago’s law school.”
William Beach, Chief Development Officer, explained how scholarships were critical in his academic and personal development. He encouraged everyone to continue their scholarship support at John Marshall.
Honored guests were 3L Julie Tenuto, recipient of the Frank and Jeanne Lupel and Joseph and Katherine Amari Scholarship, who got to thank donors Leonard Amari (JD ’68), John Marshall Board of Trustees President, and Timothy Hammersmith, Jr. (JD ’93) of Masuda Funai.
Third-year student Mary Sparrow, recipient of the Pam Shu Scholarship, met donor Pamela Shu (JD ’80)of the John Marshall Board of Visitors.
Magdalena Wilk, 3L, received the 2013 Ralph and Evelyn Ruebner Scholarship as well as the Alumni Association Scholarship.
Third-year students David Resis and Paul Schultz, recipients of the Decalogue Society of Lawyers Scholarship, met with donor Gerald Schur (JD ’63).
Joel Friedman (JD ’75) of Horwood Marcus & Berk, donor for the Alvin H. Baum Family Internship, joined Baum interns Diane O’Connell, 3L; Jason Maxfield, 3L; Nina Sykora, 2L; and Marques Berrington, 2L.
Michael Pollock (left), a second-year student, is one of the first to receive the Heart of John Marshall Scholarship given in honor of Marilyn Criss (center), administrative assistant in Student Affairs. He attended the luncheon with his father, David Pollock (JD ’78).
Michael Pollock, 2L, winner of The Heart of John Marshall Scholarship in Honor of Miss Criss, met with Marilyn Criss, administrative assistant for Student Affairs and the scholarship’s namesake, and his father David Pollock (JD ’78), for the luncheon.
John Marshall 2013 graduate Myka Bell, recipient of the Fred Hampton Scholarship, met with donor William Hampton, president of the Fred Hampton Scholarship Fund.
Judge Regina Scannicchio (JD ’88) Alumni Association President and Alumni Association Scholarship donor, and Karie Valentino (JD ’96), donor and chairperson of the Alumni Association Scholarship committee, met with Alumni Association scholars Nicholas Esterman, 3L, Sarbani Mukherjee, 2L, Andrew Symns, 3L, and Mary Walters, 3L.
Second-year student Nancy Pina, recipient of the William Rodriguez Memorial Scholarship, met donors Ricardo Meza (JD ’90), executive inspector general for agencies of the Illinois Governor; Joan Pantsios (JD ’75) a retired Cook County assistant public defender; and Professor Cliff and Nancy Scott-Rudnick.
Professor Robert Johnston, donor and namesake of the Robert Gilbert Johnston Endowed Scholarship, met scholarship recipients Lenny Cannata, 2L, and Timothy Oliver, 3L at the luncheon.
And, second-year student Brian Lambert met with Amy Dvorak (JD ’04), donor of the Grotefeld, Hoffmann, Schleiter, Gordon & Ochoa, LLP, Veterans Legal Support Clinic Scholarship.
Climate change, as witnessed through Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy and other natural disasters, is having a major impact on communities. Initiatives that have proved successful, as well as questions arising from the need for these changes, will be discussed at a day-long conference at The John Marshall Law School.
“Adaptation of the Built Environment to Achieve Resilience to Climate Change,” the Kratovil Conference on Real Estate Law and Practice on Sept. 26, will bring experts to John Marshall to discuss the legal, financial, economic, governmental, insurance and human issues that need to be addressed when adapting the built environment to make it resilient to climate change.
The 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. program is hosted by the law school’s Center for Real Estate Law. The conference features experts from across the country.
Morning topics for discussion include “Adaptation to Climate Change: What Is Being Done, What Could Be Done, and What Is Being Ignored” with Professor Rosina M. Bierbaum, School of Natural Resources and Environment, and School of Public Health at the University of Michigan; “Is FEMA Climate-Ready?” with Robert R. M. Verchick, Gauthier-St. Martin Chair in Environmental Law and faculty director of the Center for Environmental Law and Land Use at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law; and “Climate Change Adaptation, Land Use and the Federal Role” with Professor Alice Kaswan of the University of San Francisco School of Law.
Sean B. Hecht, executive director of the UCLA Environmental Law Center and director of the Evan Frankel Environmental Law and Policy Program at UCLA School of Law, will address the audience on “Local Governments Feel the Heat: Principles for Local Government Adaptation to the Impacts of Climate Change.” His presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with Deborah Rosenthal of SheppardMullin of Orange County, Calif.; Carl Adrianopoli, United States Department of Health & Human Services Chicago office; Lois Vitt Sale of Chicago’s Wight & Company.
The afternoon program will be a special presentation on adaptation in cities around the world with an introduction by Rada Doytcheva, RADA Architects, Chicago. Guest presenters will be Jörn Walter, chief urban planner and architect of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg offering a case study of adaptation in Hamburg; Associate Professor Jonathan Rosenbloom, Drake University Law School, outlining the Dutch public/private collaboration in funding adaptation of local infrastructure in response to climate change; and Professor and Associate Dean Carl J. Circo of the University of Arkansas School of Law discussing the use of development financing tools to help cover the costs of adapting to climate change in ‘Tornado Alley.’
The final segment will examine “Insurance and Climate Change: Spreading, Regulating, and Avoiding the Risks” with guest presenter Peter Kochenburger, executive director of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law. A second segment, “The Transactional Attorney’s Response to Climate Change: So Do Transactional Attorneys Really Need to Understand Atmospheric Science and Sea-Level Rise?” will be given by Professor Celeste M. Hammond, director of John Marshall’s Center for Real Estate Law. Panel commentators will be Dan Slone of McGuireWoods LLP, Richmond, Va.; Lorence Slutzky of Robbins Schwartz, Chicago; Shari Shapiro, of Cozen O’Connor, Cherry Hill, N.J.; Janet Johnson of Schiff Hardin LLP, Chicago.
There is a $150 fee for this day-long program. For additional information, visit http://events.jmls.edu/kratovil.
The John Marshall Law School welcomed a visiting delegation from Taiwan’s Soochow University. The law school and the university are in a partnership agreement. Dean John E. Corkery (seated, third from left); Dorothy Li (right), co-executive director of the Asian Alliance Program; and Arthur Yuan, (standing third from right), director of the Chinese Intellectual Property Resource Center; welcomed guests (seated) Rose Chen and Wei-Ta Pan, president of Soochow University, and (standing from left) Charlene Chen, Jerry Lin, Michael Hsu, Sea-Wain Yau, Pei-Chun Hsu and Monica Chiachien Chen.
The ups and downs of the State Street elevators will be ongoing this semester as elevators come back into service, and others go off-line for major repairs.
Repairs are nearly complete on one of the elevators servicing the library floors 6 through 10, and another elevator servicing the 12-story State Street building. Both are expected to be back in service by Sept. 27.
And the next round of repairs will begin with two elevators servicing the State Street building going off-line for repairs Sept. 30 through the remainder of the fall semester and through January 2014.
Once that work is complete, all six elevators will have been modernized.
The Veterans Legal Support Center & Clinic (VLSC) at The John Marshall Law School will conduct a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. on Sept. 26, 2013, for its new facility at the corner of Jackson Boulevard and Plymouth Court in Chicago’s Loop.
Elected officials and strategic partners of the VLSC have been invited to attend the ribbon-cutting event that will officially open the new 5,300-square-foot facility designed with groundbreaking design elements to meet the needs of veterans.
“We’re all here to serve those who served us,” said Brian Clauss, executive director for the VLSC. VLSC was the first law school program of its kind and has inspired other law schools throughout the country to begin their own veterans legal programs.
The law school purchased the three-story building at 19 W. Jackson Blvd. with the intention of moving the VLSC into that space. Organized in 2006, the VLSC is a national leader in serving veterans on all aspects of Veterans Benefits Administration claims from the initial, factual intake to the technical representation of claims at the appellate level.
Until spring of 2013, students worked in a small office space in the law school’s Plymouth Court building.
Law students working in the VLSC gain real-world experience working in-person with veterans while under the direct supervision of licensed clinical attorneys and professors.
VLSC completed the major renovations work at John Marshall during the past three years. Other renovations include converting first-floor storefront space into a new student commons and cafeteria and giving the law school a main entrance onto Chicago’s State Street. Its second-floor Sargis-Miner Student Lounge was also revamped. These renovations were included in American School & University’s 2013 American School and University Educational Interiors Showcase.
For additional information, visit www.jmls.edu/veterans
Attorney Thomas Leavens addressed issues of fair use at The John Marshall Law School’s “Hot Topics in Intellectual Property” series. His discussion focused on the Court of Appeals decision in Cariou v Prince.
An Aug. 28, 2013, discussion of a recent court decision on fair use was the first in the new “Hot Topics in Intellectual Property” lecture series initiated by the Center for Intellectual Property Law.
Thomas Leavens, a partner at Leavens, Strand, Glover & Adler, LLC, led the discussion for “Fair Use Post Cariou: Are the Rich and Famous Entitled to Broader Fair Use Privileges?” He focused on a Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision Cariou v. Prince that was issued in April 2013. The case focused on the application of the fair use doctrine under copyright in connection with “appropriation art.”
Leavens practices entertainment and media law in Chicago, and represents a wide range of music, television, film and publishing clients. He also has served as general counsel for a publicly traded record company, a digital music company and a media production and brand development company.
Leavens outlined the decision in Cariou v. Prince that raises significant questions about the application of the “transformative” use test to a wide variety of copyrighted works and how it has the potential to alter fair use analysis in significant ways. Leavens led a spirited and sometimes contentious discussion on application of the court’s new tests for “transformation.”
Contending that the court was incorporating the reputational and market analysis of trademarks into a copyright matter, Leavens suggested that this new test may be applied to other copyrighted works, including music. He noted that the court’s “name checking” and market analysis appeared to give more weight to the work of Prince, the famed performer and defendant in the case, than to traditional transformation analysis.
“I agreed that Cariou sets an unfortunate precedent that might grant successful artists, singers, film directors and even novelists a broader fair use right than their less well-known colleagues,” said Professor Doris Estelle Long, director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law. “The session was extremely well attended with over 40 practitioners, professors and students in attendance. “
Future presentations in the “Hot Topics in Intellectual Property Law” are designed to present breaking news, current event IP topics throughout the school year.
Anthony Gattuso (center) accepts his $5,000 Elmer C. Kissane Public Service Award from Paul Kissane (left), son of Elmer C. Kissane in whose memory the award was established. Offering congratulations is Associate Dean Anthony Niedwiecki (right).
Anthony Gattuso, the May 2012 winner of the Elmer C. Kissane Public Service Award, received his monetary award in August after completing a year with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office.
The $5,000 award is given by the Kissane family to a graduate of the law school who had a distinguished law school career and is committed to a career with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. The award is given in memory of Elmer C. Kissane who had a distinguished 43-year career with the office. During his tenure, Mr. Kissane rose through the ranks to become chief of the Criminal and Appeals Divisions.
Gattuso is assigned to the 4th District Courthouse in Maywood, handling misdemeanor and traffic cases for nine of the 27 municipalities in the Maywood area.
After graduating from Marquette University, Gattuso volunteered with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office as a law clerk in Maywood and stayed until he was a third-year law student at John Marshall. Once he got his 711 license, he began litigating more than 30 bench trials and motions, negotiating plea offers on several misdemeanor cases and assisting in preparing witnesses and exhibits for trial under the tutelage of an assistant state’s attorney.
Gattuso is a resident of Westchester and has worked with his parents, Angela and Paul Gattuso, at Paul’s Pizza, the family business.
Congratulations to the students who placed in the Dean Fred F. Herzog Moot Court Competition at The John Marshall Law School during the summer 2013 semester. Six students placed in the competition (from left, front): Ellen F. Caplin, second place; Laura Luisi, semifinalist; (from left, back) Jamie Holz, first place, winner; Sara J. Thigpen, semifinalist, Best Oralist and Best Brief; Eric E. Castaneda, semifinalist and Best Brief; and Joseph R. Swee, semifinalist.
Trudy Alston of Harvest Time Café & Catering in Chicago Heights, got special assistance from The John Marshall Law School’s Business Transaction Externship Program (BTEP) and its director Michael Schlesinger (left).
A block grant from the Cook County Bureau of Economic Development is enabling students at The John Marshall Law School to provide free legal assistance to prospective business owners in the county’s Southland region.
The students work through the law school’s Business Transaction Externship Program (BTEP) providing pro bono business and transactional legal services under the supervision of practicing attorneys. Upon receiving the grant, BTEP Director Michael Schlesinger made the Chicago Southland the focus of BTEP’s initiatives.
Spurring economic development and economic revitalization in underserved communities, assisting motivated, talented individuals to become economically independent business owners, and inspiring law students to engage in public service throughout their careers are the essentials of BTEP’s mission, Schlesinger explained.
The 2012 Community Development Block Grant enabled BTEP students and attorneys to attend numerous outreach meetings in Cook County’s south region speaking with more than 100 potential business and not-for-profit clients. Of those, BTEP provided pro bono representation to nine businesses on complex legal and transactional business matters.
One of those included Trudy Alston of Chicago Heights, who wanted to start a catering company and café. She got advice from BTEP on the type of business she would start and how to prepare a contract for catering clients. In 2012, Alston opened Harvest Time Café & Catering at 1039 Dixie Highway in Chicago Heights.
“The work of the law student-counselors was very professional and thorough,” she said. “They understood my business and drafted documents that fit the business just right.”
“BTEP clients know that the legal advice, counsel and work product delivered by the third year law student-counselors, is of the same high quality that emanates from the law firms where the faculty supervisors practice law,” Schlesinger added.
BTEP augments the economic development initiatives of chambers of commerce, community organizations, community development corporations, local governments, governmental agencies, and small business development centers by providing pro bono business and transactional legal services where they are most needed.
To learn more about John Marshall’s BTEP initiative, please visit www.jmls.edu/btep/
Activities
He has been working pro bono with the Hawaiian Homes Commission and its state agency, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, to assist with outstanding claims. A lawsuit the court declared the State of Hawaii has breached its trust to the Native Hawaiians under the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act.
Activities
She was interviewed by Illinois Public Radio, NBC-5 Chicago, and ABC-TV Chicago on whether Gov. Quinn was right to withhold legislators pay.
She was interviewed by CLTV on changes being made to voter qualifications following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn sections of the Voting Rights Act.
Activities
He moderated the Aug. 9, 2013, panel discussion “More than an Equal Sign: DOMA, Prop 8, the Supreme Court and Your Practice” at the American Bar Association 2013 Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Activities
He was a faculty presenter on Aug. 28, 2013, for the three-day “Indigent Defense: Three Days In A Nutshell VII” conference for the Office of the Cook County Public Defender. He spoke on “The Confrontation Clause & Forensic Autopsy Reports. “
Publications
His article, “The Confrontation Clause And Forensic Autopsy Reports—A ‘Testimonial,’” will be published by LSU’s Louisiana Law Review, Vol. 74, Issue 2.
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Publications
His piece “The Supreme Court adopts rules of reason in antitrust challenges to reverse-payment patent settlements: Now what?” will appear in the October issue of Westlaw Journal Antitrust. In the article, co-authored with Freeborn & Peters colleague Jill C. Anderson, Cross discusses the Supreme Court’s pay-for-delay decision in the FTC v. Actavis decision, and what the trial of antitrust challenges to such patent settlements will look like.
For more than 100 years, the curriculum at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago has emphasized both the theory and the practice of law. Now the law school is going even further by requiring that all incoming students participate in an experiential learning experience.
The experiential learning is a three-credit graduation requirement that will have students meet new expectations for experiential learning through a clinical experience or an externship sometime during their last three semesters of law school. This program will help guarantee John Marshall students have the legal education foundation partnered with the training that makes them practice ready.
This new requirement builds upon John Marshall’s nationally recognized Lawyering Skills Program, ranked number two in the nation by US News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools edition. With this additional experiential learning requirement, John Marshall leads the nation in the number of credits required in practice-based courses and experiential learning.
“This program will provide students with a thorough and richer professional experience that more fully integrates all of the skills, knowledge and values they have learned in law school,” said Anthony Niedwiecki, associate dean for Skills, Experiential Learning and Assessment.
Niedwiecki and his colleagues are structuring the experiential learning curriculum around 12 categories of skills, values and work. Students will be expected to meet at least six of these: interviewing, counseling, negotiation, drafting legal documents, legal research, fact investigation, problem-solving, alternative dispute resolution, managing legal work, advocacy and public education, oral communication and legal analysis.
“Law firms were once training grounds for new attorneys. Today law firms want those new attorneys to step in and be part of the firm from the day they walk through the door. At John Marshall, we’re preparing our students to meet those expectations,” he said.
“We are acting on the trends we see in the marketplace and stepping forward to give our students the advantage,” he explained. “John Marshall students have always received instruction in the theory and the practice of law. We are taking that one step beyond by giving all of our students hands-on experience before they graduate.”
Niedwiecki said the American Bar Association has been studying how law schools provide students with experiential learning. Through this new initiative, the ABA will be able to look to John Marshall’s program as one that other law schools will be able to emulate.
Students can combine experiences to meet the three credit requirement. For example, a student may earn two credits from a clinical experience, and an additional hour or two from an externship in a law office or at a government agency. The work also emphasizes the principles of professional responsibility.
John Marshall students have been gaining hands-on experience for 20 years through the Fair Housing Legal Clinic. In the past five years, the law school has added a Veterans Legal Support Center & Clinic, a Pro Bono Program, and a Business Transactions Externship Program. Students have regularly served as externs with Cook County and U.S. District Court judges, and a host of government agencies. Students do research and assist attorneys in their offices and use the 711 license to present in court under the supervision of a practicing attorney.
Niedwiecki anticipates expanding the opportunities for students, especially those interested in assisting the underserved.
“We have been giving students the opportunity to develop experience through these opportunities,” Niedwiecki said. “Now, we will be making certain that each student gets the training they need, regardless whether they are day or evening students.”
Digital Journal, September 09, 2013
Maurice Jones, deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), will deliver the keynote address at the two-day conference “Implementing the Duty to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing” on Sept. 20 and 21, 2013, hosted by The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center and Clinic.
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State of Illinois, Sept. 7, 2013
Alumnus James Conway (JD '82) has been appointed by Gov. Pat Quinn to serve as chief administrative law judge to the Illinois Independent Tax Tribunal.
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin Sept. 4, 2013
Prof Doris Long discusses market segmentation in copyright and how it is supported by a wide array of legal tools in the form of domestic laws that prohibit the importation of gray market goods in her latest column for the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.
Chicago Tribune, Sept. 11, 2013
Hon. Manuel Barbosa (JD '77), who retired in 2012 as a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge, has been appointed by Gov. Pat Quinn to serve on the Metra board.
