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Announcements

We are in the process of recruiting Academic Skills Program Teaching Assistants (TAs) for the Summer 2021 term. TAs are selected from among CK’s top students based on their overall performance in law school and in particular courses. TAs make a big difference by helping their peers through the following activities:

• TAs hold weekly office hours

• TAs run large review sessions open to all students in the class

• TAs run weekly small group sessions for selected students

Interested? Apply online by April 30 (click on link below). Also, please approach the professor you would like to work with and inform him/her of your interest.

We are looking for Summer TAs for the following courses:

• Criminal Law – Dean Sowle (first years can apply to be Dean Sowle’s TA)

• Evidence – Prof. Kling

• Trial Evidence – Prof. Truesdale

TA APPLICATION Applications are due on APRIL 30, 2021. More info about TAs can be found here.

MCHS tryouts are April 19th through April 22nd. We are still accepting applications (despite our previously stated deadline of April 12th). If anyone has any questions, they can email our President, Bora Ndregjoni, at bndregjoni or our director, Prof. Keller, at ckeller.

The Chicago-Kent Law Review will be hosting FIVE LIVE Zoom sessions for interested and eligible students to learn more about the function and benefits of joining Law Review. During these sessions, we will cover Bluebook basics as well as how to approach the summer write-on process. All sessions will be held via Zoom and you do not need to attend more than one session. Please see the attached flyer for the meeting links.

• As a reminder, the following students will automatically be invited to join the Chicago-Kent Law Review based on their academic performance:

  • Full-time day division students who have completed their first year and rank in the top 7% of the full-time day division class

  • Evening division and part-time day division students who have completed their first year and rank in the top 7% of the combined evening division and part-time day division class

  • Evening division and part-time day division students who have completed their second year and rank within the top 7% of the combined class of first-year day students and second-year evening and part-time day students

  • An additional method for joining Law Review is through participation in the Summer Candidacy Program. Because the Law Review is no longer requiring applicants to meet a minimum cumulative GPA, the Summer Candidacy Program will begin before Spring 2021 grades are released. This is a change from past years. This means that first-year rankings will not be available prior to the start of the write-on process. For this reason, everyone is encouraged to participate in the Summer Candidacy Program regardless of the potential to fall within the top 7%.

• If there are any questions or concerns, please reach out to the incoming Executive Notes & Comments Editor, Elizabeth Jedrasek (ejedrasek), or refer to § 1.12 of the Student Handbook for more information about eligibility requirements.

• Dates for Informational Sessions

  • 4/27 12:30

  • 4/28 3:30

  • 4/30 5:30

  • 5/16 2:00

  • 5/19 6:00

The ACPLS will be hosting the Student Art Fair on Sunday, May 2nd from 1-3 at Pilot Project Brewing in Logan Square. This will be a fun opportunity to network and hang out with fellow art lovers over coffee and drinks. If you intend to participate in the Art Fair, please submit (to acpls) the following information at your earliest convenience, but no later than Friday, April 23:

• The format of the piece(s) you will be submitting (ie. photography, paint, sculpture, etc)

• The name of your piece(s) – if you have one

• The approximate size of your piece(s), so that we are able to provide an appropriate viewing platform for your work and are able to accommodate space for everyone

Events for This Week

Events may be found on the SBA calendar. Please make sure you are accessing via your Kent email address.

Tuesday, April 20

• 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: NELA-IL is hosting its annual Seventh Circuit Conference Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at 9:00 am – 12:30 pm. This year’s theme is "Employment Law in the Time of COVID-19." This event is free for all law students. Commensurate with NELA’s new student inclusion efforts, they will also be holding student social sessions in between breaks where students can informally network with each other and other employment law attorneys.

  • The conference will be held via Zoom. To register, please go to the NELA-IL website: https://www.nela-illinois.org/content.aspx?page_id=4002&club_id=853437&item_id=1392359

  • This is a fantastic learning and networking opportunity. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Tyler Sprague.

• 5:00 p.m.: Cannabis Law Society and Arts and Cultural Property Law Society present "Paint and Puff with Bob Ross" on 4/20/21 at 5pm. If you need a paint set, we can order one for you for $25! Send your RSVP to cannabislawsociety.

• 5:30 p.m.: Pathways to the Bench – Judges Panel. Please join SBA and Lambdas as we host four Cook County Judges in a panel. The judges will be discussing their career paths and history, and take questions from the audience in real time. This event will be invaluable for anyone interested in becoming a judge, and provides an excellent networking opportunity to interact with current judges. Please see the SBA Calendar for more details.

Wednesday, April 21

• 4:00 p.m. Please join SELS for a talk with Tennessee Titans President and Chicago-Kent Alumnus Burke Nihil on Wednesday, April 21 at 4:00pm!

Thursday, April 22

• 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.: Women in Law Trivia Night. Join the Society of Women in Law for Trivia Night on Thursday April 22, from 5:30PM-7PM via Zoom. The questions will feature feminist and both fictional and famous female lawyer trivia. Prizes will be awarded to First, Second, and Third place teams so everyone has a chance to win! If you are part of the WIL Mentorship Program, we encourage you to invite your mentor as this is an excellent event to have fun and get to know each other better. All are welcome, so bring your friends and join us for Women in Law Trivia Night! Register here.

• 5:30 p.m.: Speaker Brittany Hill – Alternatives for Change: Exploring Restorative Justice in Animal Crimes. Join us for a presentation about restorative justice in animal crimes by Brittany Hill, an attorney with the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s Criminal Justice Program. In her work, Brittany finds innovative ways to apply criminal justice reform to animal law. Brittany graduated from Lewis & Clark Law School in 2019 and while there, Brittany worked on criminal justice reform issues, including clemency and reducing barriers for justice-involved people through community law. The first 7 people to register will receive a $15 gift card to Native Foods, which will be sent out to them after they attend this event. Additionally, everyone who registers and attends the event will be automatically included in a raffle for one $25 gift card from Kitchen 17. See attached flyer for more info. Please register egalanopulos.

• 8:00 – 10:00 p.m.: By popular demand Paint n Sip night is back!! For just $5 you can join your classmates for a virtual paint n sip hosted by Pino’s Pallet of Logan Square on Thursday, April 22 at 8pm-10pm. ALL painting supplies are included in that price and paint supplies can be shipped directly to your home (for an additional $17 shipping fee) or can be picked up from the lobby at Chicago Kent the Tuesday and Wednesday before the event. Sign up BEFORE Friday, April 16th using this link: https://www.pinotspalette.com/logansquare/event/534423

Friday, April 23

• 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.: SBA Open Door At 4 pm on Fridays through April 30, SBA has committed to launching an unrecorded SBA Zoom session to lend an ear to students who wish to hang out, vent, problem solve, mingle, ask questions – whatever our peers might need to feel heard. Students and faculty are encouraged to swing by. The link is in the SBA Calendar!!

• 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. The 30th Annual KJF Spring Auction: Calling all students: Are you a public interest student planning on getting an unpaid internship this coming summer? Or a student with a paid internship who’s looking to give back to the C-K community? The annual Kent Justice Foundation’s Spring Auction (when students can bid on Themis and Barbri Giftcards, virtual murder mystery, Zoom happy hour, and much more with your favorite professors!) is coming up on Friday, April 23rd.

  • The 30th Annual Auction will take place in the auditorium at Chicago-Kent on Friday, April 23rd from 6-8 PM CST. This will be an in-person event so social distancing and masks are required. But we are excited to see each and every one of you in person! There will be a silent and live auction taking place. If you would like to attend, the tickets are $7. You can purchase tickets at the door or online. Once the link is live, we will send you all a second email containing the link to purchase tickets.

  • Also, if you would like to volunteer for a committee either setting up the event, tearing down the event, or the wrap up committee, please provide your name here. The Wrap-Up committee begins working after the auction and involves emailing donors and winners. The more you volunteer, the more money we can raise for summer scholarships, and the more chances you have to get a scholarship yourself, up to $5,000.

  • If you have any questions, please feel free to email us, but we are really excited to be putting on an event at school and in-person!

Student Org Elections

ACLU Announces Executive Board ELECTIONS! If you are interested in serving on the ACLU executive board, please submit a brief statement – no more than 250 words – by Wednesday, April 21st, 11:59 p.m. to aclu. All positions are open for election and here’s a list of our current board members. You can reach out to them if you’d like to learn more about what they do in their positions or to learn what it’s like generally to be on the ACLU board!

• President – Robert Meglei – RMeglei

• Vice President – Sahil Marya – SMarya

• Director of Communications – Patrycia Piakoski – PPiaskowski

• Treasurer – Matt Burns – MBurns13

• Social Media/ Marketing Director – Ashley Rice – ARice8

• National/Regional Chapter Liaison – Danielle Craan – DCraan

• Fundraising/Outreach Director – Larissa Kupinsky-Gamberg – LKupinszkygamberg

REAA Executive Board Elections: If you are interested in serving on the REAA executive board, please submit a brief statement – no more than 250 words- by Wednesday, April 21st, 11:59 p.m. to reaa@kentlaw.iit.edu. All positions are open for election:

• President

• Vice President

• Treasurer

• Secretary

• Publicist

• 1L/2L Reps

• Alumni Chair

Please be aware all positions will be available to those who are interested.

Volunteer Opportunities

Law Student Volunteers Needed! The Annual Illinois Youth Summit for high school students will take place on May 14, 2021. This year, the summit topic will be “What does defund the police really mean?” If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Dee Runaas at drunaas.

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) has informed us that they are seeking 2 volunteers for the Immigrant Legal Defense Project. They are asking for 2-3 hours a week from May 24 through July 30. The volunteer would be paired with a fellow on NIJC’s Immigrant Legal Defense Project. The work would be remote via an internet platform. Please contact Elena Miller if you are interested in this opportunity.

Midwest Immigration Bond Fund Coalition Ambassador Training April 22 from 5:30 – 6:30 CT: The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund Coalition (MIBFC) endeavors to fill a critical gap by establishing a revolving fund that can be used to post a monetary bond for individuals held in the custody of Immigration & Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) who cannot afford to pay bonds set by ICE or the Chicago Immigration Court. The MIBFC also seeks to provide comprehensive post-release support to individuals facing deportation by strengthening and building relationships with community partners to provide assistance to impacted individuals in the areas of legal representation, justice, safety, and well-being in the United States. Interested students and advocates are invited to join a MIBFC Ambassador training on April 22 from 5:30 – 6:30 CT. to find out more about ICE detention and how to support the MIBFC mission. To attend, please sign up through this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TCMZX3N.

Future Events

Sunday, April 25

• 2 p.m.: The Color Run is a 1 mile run or walk through IIT Mies Campus to celebrate the end of the school year and the beginning of spring. Throughout the course colors will be thrown into the air and when you finish you will likely look like a rainbow! Unfortunately we cannot host a festival after the run like in years past. However we will still have music and you can run with your friends in groups up to 25. Sign up as a team when you register.

  • Every participant will receive a free Color Run t-shirt, sunglasses, and facemask.

  • Come out and celebrate – you deserve this!

  • The greater the storm, the brighter the rainbow!

  • Check out the event here.

Friday, April 30

• 12 – 1 p.m. ACPLS presents: A Conversation with Lori Breslauer, General Counsel to the Field Museum. Lori Breslauer provides legal advice to the Museum on a wide variety of matters including collections management/cultural property, exhibitions, education initiatives, business affairs, intellectual property, and insurance.

https://kentlaw.zoom.us/j/87327605944?pwd=VU04VWRTbzYrVUFJTzl0U25aUHRIUT09

Sunday, May 2

• 1 – 3 p.m.: The ACPLS presents The Student Art Fair at Pilot Project Brewing in Logan Square. This will be a fun opportunity to network and hang out with fellow art lovers over coffee and drinks. If you intend to participate in the Art Fair, please submit (to acpls) the following information at your earliest convenience, but no later than Friday, April 23:

• The format of the piece(s) you will be submitting (ie. photography, paint, sculpture, etc)

• The name of your piece(s) – if you have one

• The approximate size of your piece(s), so that we are able to provide an appropriate viewing platform for your work and are able to accommodate space for everyone

Resources

Writing Competitions

• Interested in submitting a paper to a competition? The law library has created a guide to student legal writing competitions. For more information, please see the library blog post about the guide.

From ASP:

• How to improve second semester grades: Leveraging your first semester to fuel success.

From the Library:

• The library has created a resource guide for APALSA and our Asian community, in light of recent events. Students may access the guide here.

• As part of the Chicago-Kent Law Library’s mission to support the needs of faculty, students, and staff of the law school, our newest library guide highlights resources to support the work being done to promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Chicago-Kent: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources. In the guide, find links to books, specialized digital collections, study guides, and journals, with many titles you can access digitally through our collections even if you’re not visiting our library in person or requesting books via I-Share at this time. You’ll also find recommendations for antiracism books and authors to support the ongoing work of the Chicago-Kent Antiracism Statement from 2020.

• We hope you’ll review the resources and use the CK Suggests page if you have suggestions, reviews, or content you’d like to see in the guide in the future.

American Bar Association:

• Did you know that you get a free ABA membership as a law school student? Sign up using this link for all the perks of membership, including networking opportunities and awesome discounts to study resources! If you have any questions, email your ABA Rep Daniel Kfoury.

Housing/Sublease Spreadsheet:

• Northwestern Law started a sublease spreadsheet for people looking to lease their apartment over the summer. The spreadsheet is being shared with all the Chicago area law schools. Students can feel free to add their apartments if they need a renter, or this is a good place to look if any students need a place just for the summer during their internship.

Birthdays & Special Days – April:

04/01 – Isabelle Abbott, 1L

04/04 – Janet Vasquez, 3L

04/06 – Joe Popely, 2L

04/08 – Marrell Williams, 1L

4/13 – Zach Taylor, 3L

4/15 – Joshua Kibert, 1L

4/18 – Daniel Kfoury, 3L

4/20 – Daniel Abraham, 1L

4/21 – Megan Warshawsky, 1L

4/25 – Taylor Shuman, 2L

4/26 – Joey Zawacki, 2L

4/27 – Micah McClendon, 3L

4/29 – Roberto Martinez, 3L

*if you wish to share your special date with the student body, click here

Women in Law Trivia Night Flyer.pdf
SALDF Event 4_22 – Speaker Brittany Hill updated.pdf
SELS Titans final.pdf
2021 Summer Candidacy Program.pdf
Judges’ Panel .pdf
MCHS Tryout Flyer.pdf