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    • 1L Your Way Specialization Program
      Why Wait to Specialize?

      Jump-start your career with our breakthrough 1L Your Way options: Start specializing during year one in selected practice areas. Or rotate through three diverse practice settings to sample challenging career options.
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      Choosing a Law School?

      When it comes to evaluating law schools, objective comparisons matter. See how we measure up to our peers.

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      Extraordinary Faculty
      At IIT Chicago-Kent, you'll study and collaborate with one of the most productive and influential groups of legal scholars in the country.
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      Intensive Skills Training
      We combine rigorous theoretical course work with first-rate training in lawyering skills, legal writing and advocacy.
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      Individual Career Planning
      Beginning in your first term, you're assigned a career counselor who helps you create a career development plan that fits your personal and professional goals.
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      Outstanding Bar Pass Rate

      The pass rate for Chicago-Kent graduates who took the Illinois bar exam for the first time in July 2013 was 93 percent—four points above the state average.
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    Did you miss your Supreme Court news this week? Let our Weekly Roundup help. (To stay on top of the latest Supreme Court happenings, follow ISCOTUS on Twitter.)

    What does the campaign finance McCutcheon decision actually mean? Professor Sanford Greenberg of Chicago-Kent College of Law explains

    Listen to oral arguments from McCutcheon on Oyez

    Goldberg's swing and miss - ISCOTUS Director Chris Schmidt continues his Drama in the Court series with a former Justice's embarrassing return to the Court in Flood v. Kuhn

    After McCutcheon, what other challenges could arise to campaign contribution limits? Lyle Denniston analyzes

    Supreme Court declines early look at NSA surveillance case

    The Supreme Court denied cert in a closely-watched case concerning gay rights and free speech

    Cato's Ilya Shapiro will be at Chicago-Kent College of Law on Thursday to talk about the state of the campaign finance system

    Scalia on religion, law, and Rehnquist

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    Recent SCOTUS Actions

    Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer
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    Question: Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit err by holding that t...
    Loughrin v. United States
    • Argument: 2014-04-01
    Question: In order to find the defendant guilty of bank fraud, is the prosecution r...
    Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International
    • Argument: 2014-03-31
    Question: Are claims regarding computer-implemented inventions—including systems, m...
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    "Chicago-Kent is a great law school. Now, there are many great schools, but very few of them are situated in great cities — and Chicago is a great city, full of opportunities for lawyers and law students."
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  • IIT Chicago-Kent Voices:
    Hear what our community has to say

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    1L Your Way at Chicago-Kent

    The 1L Your Way program is an optional early specialization track that introduces flexibility into the first-year curriculum. Students who choose to participate in 1L Your Way defer the required first-year course Legislation to the second year in favor of taking either an approved, upper-division elective course or a unique clinical rotation course.

    Learn more about 1L Your Way...

    Student Voices, Part 1

    Students talk about studying law at IIT Chicago-Kent, their professors and peers, and gaining practical experience while in school.

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    Check out the entire Student Voices series playlist on our YouTube channel.

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News

  • The Illinois Attorney General's Office is IIT Chicago-Kent's 2014 Public Interest Partner
  • William A. Galston is IIT Chicago-Kent's 2014 Centennial Visitor
  • Best-selling author Amity Shlaes to lecture at IIT Chicago-Kent on April 22
  • Entries are being accepted for the 2014 IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize
  • IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law to release new study on diabetes apps at its April 4 "Health on the Go" conference
  • IIT Chicago-Kent establishes LL.M. program in trial advocacy for international students and practitioners
  • IIT Chicago-Kent students elected to NBLSA Midwest regional board
  • 2014 Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition winners named

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Events

  • Apr 16:

    "Can Government Fix What’s Wrong with the Economy?" - Centennial Visitor William Galston

  • Apr 16:

    Public Interest Awards Night

  • Apr 22:

    Chicago-Kent Documentary Film Series on Race: "Raising Our Voices"

  • Apr 22:

    "The Great Chicken Flap: How the Schechter Poultry Case Changed America and Showed Its Possibilities" - Best-selling author Amity Shlaes

  • Apr 24 - Apr 25:

    31st annual Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation Conference

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