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Chicago–Kent College Of Law
Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school affiliated with the Illinois Institute of Technology. It is the second oldest law school in the state of Illinois. It is ranked 91st among U.S. law schools, and its trial advocacy program is ranked in 2015 by ''U.S. News & World Report'' as the fourth best program in the U.S. According to Chicago-Kent's 2014 American Bar Association-required disclosures, 85% of the 2014 class secured a position six months after graduation. Of these 248 employed graduates, 172 were in positions requiring passage of the bar exam. Rankings and honors The 2022 edition of ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranked Chicago-Kent College of Law: #91st Nationally #10th Intellectual Property Law #19th Part-time Law #4th Trial Advocacy #3rd highest rank in Chicago Area Recent Leiter's Law School Rankings placed the law school: *37th Based on Faculty Quality, 2003-04 (tie) *30th Top 50 Faculties: Per Capita Productivity of Books and Articles, 2000–02 Vault's 2007 Top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ck Logo
CK, Ck, or ck may refer to: Science and technology * Conductive keratoplasty, a type of refractive surgery * Creatine kinase, an enzyme * Cytokinin, a plant hormone * Cytokeratin (CK1 to CK20), keratin proteins * Cyanogen chloride, an inorganic chemical Computing * .ck, the Internet country code top-level domain for the Cook Islands * Collective Knowledge (software), a framework for collaborative and reproducible research Organizations * Calvin Klein, a fashion company * Chowking, a Filipino fast food chain * Colombo Kings, a team participating in Lanka Premier League * CK Hutchison Holdings, a multinational conglomerate headquartered in Hong Kong * Bloods, a US-based street gang, from the nickname "Crip Killer" *Circle K, an international chain of convenience stores Transportation * China Cargo Airlines (IATA code CK) * Composite Corridor, a designation of British Rail carriages * Chevrolet C/K, a model of pickup truck People * Louis C.K. (born 1967), American comedian * Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimer College
Shimer Great Books School (pronounced ) is a Classic_book#University_programs, Great Books college that is part of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Prior to 2017, Shimer was an independent, accredited college on the south side of Chicago, with a history of being in different cities in Illinois prior to that. Founded in 1853 as the Mount Carroll Seminary in Mount Carroll, Illinois, the school became affiliated with the University of Chicago in 1896 and was renamed the Frances Shimer Academy after founder Frances Wood Shimer. It was renamed Shimer College in 1950, when it began offering a four-year curriculum based on the Robert Maynard Hutchins, Hutchins Plan of the University of Chicago. After the University of Chicago parted with both the college and the Hutchins Plan in 1958, Shimer continued to use a version of that curriculum. The college relocated to Waukegan, Illinois, Waukegan in 1978 and to Chicago in 2006. In 2017, it was acquired by North Central Colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Almaguer
Pablo Javier Almaguér (born 1971) is an American lawyer from Texas. He is a former chair of the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors. Biography Almaguer was the first legal aid lawyer to serve on the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors, and the first attorney from Hidalgo County to be elected to the position of chair. Almaguer is a graduate of the University of Texas-Pan American, and did his graduate work at Chicago-Kent College of Law Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school affiliated with the Illinois Institute of Technology. It is the second oldest law school in the state of Illinois. It is ranked 91st among U.S. law schools, and its trial advocacy program is ranked in .... He was previously branch manager of the Edinburg branch of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid; he is a former president of the board of directors for the Texas Civil Rights Project. Miscellaneous Texas Center for Legal Ethics - About Pablo AlmaguerPablo J. Almaguer's Linkedin PageThe Pablo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Sengstacke Abbott
Robert Sengstacke Abbott (December 24, 1870 – February 29, 1940) was an American lawyer, newspaper publisher and editor. Abbott founded ''The Chicago Defender'' in 1905, which grew to have the highest circulation of any black-owned newspaper in the country. An early adherent of the Baháʼí Faith in the United States, Abbott founded the Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic in August 1929. The parade, which has developed into a celebration for youth, education and African–American life in Chicago, Illinois, is the second largest parade in the United States. Biography Early life and education Abbot was born on December 24, 1870, in St. Simons, Georgia (although some sources state Savannah, Georgia) to freedman parents, who had been enslaved before the American Civil War. The Sea Islands were a place of the Gullah people, an African-descended ethnic group who maintained African-inherited cultural traits more strongly than many African Americans in other areas of the South. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. The composition and powers of the Senate are established by Article One of the United States Constitution. The Senate is composed of senators, each of whom represents a single state in its entirety. Each of the 50 states is equally represented by two senators who serve staggered terms of six years, for a total of 100 senators. The vice president of the United States serves as presiding officer and president of the Senate by virtue of that office, despite not being a senator, and has a vote only if the Senate is equally divided. In the vice president's absence, the president pro tempore, who is traditionally the senior member of the party holding a majority of seats, presides over the Senate. As the upper chamber of Congress, the Senate has several powers o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Salvi
Kathy Salvi (born April 23, 1959) is an American attorney and former assistant public defender with the Lake County Office of Public Defender. Salvi was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in the 2022 election in Illinois. Early life and education Salvi was raised in a family of nine in Waukegan, Illinois. Salvi received her Bachelor of Arts in communications from Loyola University Chicago in 1981 and her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1984. The same year, she was admitted to the Illinois State Bar Association. Political career 2022 U.S. Senate campaign In March 2022, Salvi announced that she would challenge incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth for her seat in the 2022 United States Senate election in Illinois The 2022 United States Senate election in Illinois was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Illinois. Incumbent Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth was fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred F
Fred may refer to: People * Fred (name), including a list of people and characters with the name Mononym * Fred (cartoonist) (1931–2013), pen name of Fred Othon Aristidès, French * Fred (footballer, born 1949) (1949–2022), Frederico Rodrigues de Oliveira, Brazilian * Fred (footballer, born 1979), Helbert Frederico Carreiro da Silva, Brazilian * Fred (footballer, born 1983), Frederico Chaves Guedes, Brazilian * Fred (footballer, born 1986), Frederico Burgel Xavier, Brazilian * Fred (footballer, born 1993), Frederico Rodrigues de Paula Santos, Brazilian * Fred Again (born 1993), British songwriter known as FRED Television and movies * ''Fred Claus'', a 2007 Christmas film * ''Fred'' (2014 film), a 2014 documentary film * Fred Figglehorn, a YouTube character created by Lucas Cruikshank ** ''Fred'' (franchise), a Nickelodeon media franchise ** '' Fred: The Movie'', a 2010 independent comedy film * '' Fred the Caveman'', French Teletoon production from 2002 * Fred Fli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Brill
Ralph L. Brill (December 19, 1935 – June 21, 2019) was Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Early life Brill was born in Chicago, the son of Romanian immigrants. He attended the University of Illinois, where he received both his undergraduate degree and his Juris Doctor. While in law school, Brill served as associate editor of the University of Illinois Law Forum. He was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1960. Brill's first case as an attorney was a dog bite case. Establishing a legal writing course Brill began teaching law school in the fall of 1960 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He began his teaching career by teaching a subject outside the customary law school discipline — Legal Writing. Legal Writing was part of a course entitled "Problems and Research." It was at this time that Brill began to recognize the importance of including skills courses in the law school curriculum. Brill also became aware early on that "skills" teachers, such as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phi Alpha Delta
Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International ( or P.A.D.) is the largest professional law fraternity in the United States. Founded in 1902, P.A.D. has since grown to 717 established pre-law, law, and alumni chapters and over 330,000 initiated members. Application for membership to Phi Alpha Delta is available to undergraduate students, law school students, lawyers, judges, and politicians. Three of the sitting Justices of the United States Supreme Court are members of P.A.D. From 1964 to 1968, Tom C. Clark, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, served as Supreme Vice Justice of the Fraternity. Seven U.S. Presidents have likewise been members of P.A.D.https://www.pad.org/page/ProminentPADs Organization and government Pursuant to the Fraternity Policy Manual and By-Laws of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International, the supreme governing body of the Fraternity is the International Chapter in Convention Assembled. The International Chapter is composed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commentaries On American Law
''Commentaries on American Law'' is a four-volume book by James Kent. It was adapted from his lectures at Columbia Law School starting in 1794. It was first published in 1826 by O. Halsted and has been reprinted and revised many times since. A twelfth edition was edited by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist and legal scholar who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932.Holmes was Acting Chief Justice of the Un ... A fourteenth edition edited by John M. Gould was published in 1896, and a fifteenth edition edited by Jon Roland was published 1997-2002. Reviews In 1847, commenting on the fifth edition,Kent, J. Commentaries on American Law. 5th ed. 4 vols. 8vo. New York. 1844. J. G. Marvin said: References {{Reflist Law books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Kent (jurist)
James Kent (July 31, 1763 – December 12, 1847), sometimes called the "American Blackstone", was an American jurist, New York legislator and legal scholar. His ''Commentaries on American Law'' (based on lectures first delivered at Columbia College in 1794, and further lectures in the 1820s) became the formative American law book in the antebellum era (published in 14 editions before 1896) and also helped establish the tradition of law reporting in America.Langbein, John H.Chancellor Kent and the History of Legal Literature(1993). Faculty Scholarship Series. Paper 549. p. 548 Early life Kent was born in what was then the town of Fredericksburg (the present-day towns of Patterson, Kent, Carmel, Southeast and Pawling) in Dutchess County, New York. His father, Moss Kent, was a lawyer in that county, as well as the first Surrogate of nearby Rensselaer County, New York. Despite interruptions caused by the American Revolutionary War, Kent graduated from Yale College in 1781, havi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ida Platt
Ida Platt (September 29, 1863 – 1939) was an American lawyer, based in Chicago. In 1894, she became the first African-American woman licensed to practice law in Illinois, and the third in the United States. Early life Ida Platt was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Jacob F. and Amelia B. Platt. Her father owned a lumber business. She worked as a stenographer and secretary to pay her way at law school, and learned German and French in her work. She also studied piano as a young woman. Platt was the first African-American woman to graduate from Chicago-Kent College of Law when she finished in 1894."Girls Want to Study Law: 100 Years of Women Graduates" online exhibit, Scholarly Commons, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. Career Ida Platt was admitted to the Illinoi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
