Rankings, Awards & Bar Pass Rates
Current Rankings
5th in Trial Advocacy - U.S. News & World Report (March 2013)
11th in Intellectual Property - U.S. News & World Report (March 2013)
68th Overall Rank - U.S. News & World Report (March 2013)
Bar Passage Rate
2012
95 percent of IIT Chicago-Kent graduates who took the bar exam in July 2012 for the first time received passing scores, exceeding the state pass rate for first-time test takers by six points. The law school's pass rate was the third highest in Illinois and the second highest among the Chicago law schools. Read more in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.
2011
97 percent of IIT Chicago-Kent graduates who took the bar exam in July 2011 for the first time received passing scores, exceeding the pass rates of graduates from Illinois' eight other law schools and besting the state pass rate for first-time takers by seven points. Read more in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.
Employment
According to a report by Law School Transparency, Chicago-Kent placed third among the city of Chicago law schools for the number of 2012 graduates who secured full-time, long-term jobs requiring bar passage within nine months of graduation. Read more in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.
Scholarly Impact
The Chicago-Kent faculty ranks 52nd in the nation based on scholarly impact. See Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties in 2012: Applying Leiter Scores to Rank the Top Third by Sisk et al (2012).
Trial Advocacy & Moot Court Awards
2011
Ryan Nolte, Best Oral Advocate, National Trial Competition
2010
First place, National Institute for Trial Advocacy's Tournament of Champions
Joseph Carlasare '12, Best Oral Advocate Award
2009
First place, National Moot Court Competition
2008
First place, National Trial Competition
Joshua Jones '08, Best Oral Advocate Award
First place, National Moot Court Competition
Rachel Moran '08, Best Oral Advocate Award
2007
First place, National Trial Competition
Keya Rajput '07, Best Oral Advocate Award
1988
First place, National Trial Competition
Peter Roskam '89, Best Oral Advocate Award
Midwest regional tournament, National Trial Competition
IIT Chicago-Kent has won the Midwest regional championship 23 times in the past 30 years.
Appellate Lawyers Association's Moot Court Competition
IIT Chicago-Kent has won the Appellate Lawyers Association's Moot Court Competition five times in the last six years.
Midwest regional tournament, National Moot Court Competition
IIT Chicago-Kent has advanced out of the regional tournament to the national finals six times in the last seven years.
Recent Faculty Honors
Professor Ralph Brill was named the first recipient of the annual Brill Award, established by the Association of Legal Writing Directors to honor individuals who have contributed more than 50 years of outstanding service to the legal academy in the area of legal writing education.
Professor Sungjoon Cho was selected by the Korea-EU Trade Commission to become one of 15 members of the Arbitration Panel Roster under Chapter 14 of the Korea-European Union Free Trade Agreement.
Professor Edward Kraus was appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to serve on the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines. The nine-member commission is charged with advising the secretary on issues related to the implementation of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
Professor Martin Malin was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Federal Service Impasse Panel, which intervenes when an agency of the federal government and a union representing that agency's employees are unable to reach agreement on the terms of a new collective bargaining agreement.
Eleven members of the IIT Chicago-Kent faculty are members of the American Law Institute, an independent organization that produces scholarly work to clarify, modernize and otherwise improve the law.