Category Archives: Legal
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin for Students
NOTE: With the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin & Chicago Lawyer have temporarily removed their paywalls to allow free access to content. Click on the links to access these publications. Did you know the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin offers free … Continue reading
Chicago Legal Tech Innovator Showcase
In 2017, Chicago-Kent and the Chicago Bar Association highlighted the top 10 best local legal tech innovators and hosted a panel to discuss today’s market. Continue reading
Legal Skills Workshop: Effective Listening
Learning to listen effectively is a valuable career skill, especially for young attorneys. It matters well beyond the legal profession, of course – you may find some of these tips helpful with holiday dinners too! Continue reading
Free Money? A comprehensive list of student legal writing competitions
With prizes as high as $25,000, there is good money in student legal writing competitions (not to mention great experience). Suffolk has compiled a list of current competitions by topic and due date. Are you interested in writing about tax law? … Continue reading
End of Summer Reading – Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy
The summer’s almost over – time to read one last book on the beach. If you’re looking for inspirational reading about the great power of the legal system, check out Bryan Stevenson’s memoir, Just Mercy. Stevenson is a death-row attorney whose stories about working with inmates are fascinating and inspiring. Continue reading
Design in the Law: Jury Instructions Collaborative Workshop
Earlier this semester, Professor Nancy Marder and Professor Tomoko Ichikawa organized a collaborative faculty workshop for Chicago-Kent College of Law and IIT’s Institute of Design. The workshop considered the problem of jury instructions in the legal field and how design strategies … Continue reading
Chicago-Kent and the AALL 2016 Annual Meeting
The 109th Annual Meeting for the American Association of Law Libraries is being held here in Chicago July 16-19. This is the first time in 29 years that the meeting will be held in Chicago, which is also the home … Continue reading
Three Secret Weapons
You can ask a research librarian a seemingly impossible question and get an answer in minutes. How? Well, practice and the ability to remember questions I’ve answered before. But there’s something else. Librarians have secret weapons, and today I’m lifting … Continue reading
Historical Dead-Letter Laws in Chicago
Did you that it was once (not so very long ago) illegal in the city of Chicago for a child to climb a tree? Thanks to a poorly-drafted ordinance against “flagpole sitting,” this was the case. How many of us … Continue reading
Of Class Actions and Cranberries
The Chicago-Kent Law Library is here this week to give you some dinner conversation for the upcoming holiday. The word for you to casually drop into conversation on Thursday is “monopsonization.” Every Thanksgiving, Americans buy (and eat) incredible amounts of … Continue reading
