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 25 Most Underrated Law Schools ranked the law school:
*4th Most Underrated Law School in the U.S.

The Chicago-Kent Trial Advocacy Team won the 32nd and 33rd annual National Trial Competition Championships.

Members of the Chicago-Kent Moot Court Honor Society won the 58th and 59th annual National Moot Court Competitions.

Chicago-Kent maintains the Midwest's highest ranking Environmental & Energy Law program.

Degree programs

*Juris Doctor (J.D.) Program
**Juris Doctor, J.D. Certificates and Concentrations:
***Environmental and Energy Law
***Intellectual Property Law
***International and Comparative Law
***Labor Law, Labor and Employment Law
***Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
***Public Interest Law
***Criminal Litigation
**J.D. Focused Areas of Study:
***Entertainment and Technology Law
***Family law, Family Law
***Financial Services Law
***Health Law, Policy and Bioethics
***Personal Injury Law
***Real Estate and Land Use
***Tax and Estate Planning
*Graduate LL.M. Programs
**Family
**Financial Service Law
**International and Comparative Law
**International Intellectual Property Law (First such degree to be offered by a U.S. law school)
**Taxation
*Joint Degree Programs
**J.D./LL.M. in Taxation
**J.D./LL.M. in Financial Service Law
**J.D./M.B.A. (Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT Stuart School of Business)
**J.D./M.S. in Financial Markets (Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT Stuart School of Business)
**J.D./M.P.A (Master of Public Administration)
**J.D./M.P.H. (Master of Public Health, with University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC)
**Bachelor's/J.D (with University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC)
**Bachelor's/J.D (with Shimer College)

Institutes and Centers

*Center for Access to Justice & Technology
*Center for Information, Society, and Policy
*Center for Open Government
*Global Law and Policy Initiative
*IIT Center for Diabetes Research and Policy
*Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future
*Institute for Law and the Humanities
*Institute for Law and the Workplace
*Institute for Science, Law and Technology
*Jury Center
*The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) and Oyez Project are headquartered at Chicago-Kent

History

* 1886

*1894

*1895

*1895

*1900

*1902

*1903

*1912

*1918

*1923

*1942

*1949

*1956

*1961

*1969

*1970

*1974

*1976

*1978

*1981

*1983

*1983

*1991

*1992

*1997

*1997

*2002

*2003

*2003

*2003

Notable alumni

* Kathy Salvi, 1984. Partner at Salvi & Maher, Republican nominee for the United States Senate
* Robert Sengstacke Abbott, 1898. Founder of the ''Chicago Defender''
* Pablo Almaguer, former Chair of the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors
* Anita Alvarez, former Cook County State's Attorney
* Stanley C. Armstrong, 1911. Former Illinois state representative
* Carson Block, investor and founder of Muddy Waters Research
*Esther Dunshee Bower, 1902. Co-founder, Illinois League of Women Voters
* Anne M. Burke, 1983. Illinois Supreme Court Justice
* J. Herbert Burke, 1940. United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Florida 1967-1979
* Frank J. Christensen (attended), American labor leader
* Frank J. Corr, Acting mayor of Chicago, March 15, 1933 – April 8, 1933
* William L. Dawson (politician), William L. Dawson (attended), U.S. Congressman
* Billy Dec, nightlife entrepreneur
* Peter K. De Vuono, 1934, Illinois state representative and lawyer
* Samuel Ettelson, 1897. Illinois state senator and attorney
* Harris W. Fawell, U.S. Congressman
* Thomas D. Flanagan, 1963. Lawyer, Founder of Flanagan , Bilton
* M. G. Gordon, Businessman, inventor, and social theorist
* Robert J. Gorman, 1940. Attorney
* Earnest A. Greene, state representative in 1936
* Oscar Raymond Holcomb, 1892. former Justice of the Washington Supreme Court
* Randy Hultgren, 1993. Republican U.S. Representative for Illinois' 14th Congressional District
* Charles P. Kindregan, Jr., legal author, professor, expert on modern family law
* Florence King (patent attorney), Florence King, the first female patent attorney in America
* Weymouth Kirkland, Namesake partner of Kirkland & Ellis
* Carolyn H. Krause, Member of the Illinois House of Representatives
* Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, 1925. Appointed to Federal Court for the Northern District of Illinois by President John F. Kennedy, 1963
* James T. Londrigan, Justice of the Illinois Appellate Court from the 4th district.
* Richard B. Ogilvie, 1949. Illinois Governor, 1969–1973
* Maria Pappas, Cook County Treasurer.
* Kwame Raoul, Illinois Attorney General
* Larry Rogers, Jr., commissioner on the Cook County Board of Review
* Peter Roskam, 1989. Republican U.S. Representative for Illinois' 6th Congressional District
* Ilana Rovner, Ilana Kara Diamond Rovner, 1966. First woman appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, by President Bush, 1992
* Jim Ryan (politician), Jim Ryan, 1971. Former Illinois attorney general
* Bob Schillerstrom, DuPage County Board Chairman
* Nathan B. Spingold, vice-president of Columbia Pictures
* James E. Strunck, 1950. Illinois state senator and judge
* Chad Taylor (politician), Chad Taylor, District Attorney for Shawnee County, KS
* Charles H. Thompson (Illinois judge), Charles H. Thompson, 1918, Chief Justice, Illinois Supreme Court, 1945, 1945, 1949, 1950
* Jerry Vainisi, football executive and businessman
* Arthur Wilhelmi, 1993. Member of the Illinois Senate
* Bruce Wolf, sports journalist

Notable faculty

* Michael T. Cahill, Dean of Brooklyn Law School

Employment

According to Chicago-Kent's official ABA-required disclosures, 89.9% of the Class of 2015 obtained employment nine months after graduation. Chicago-Kent's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 20.9%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2013 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.

Costs

The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at Chicago-Kent for the 2013–2014 academic year is $64,867. The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $239,727.

Publications

* Chicago-Kent Law Review
* Chicago-Kent Journal of Environmental and Energy Law
* Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal
* Illinois Public Employee Relations Report
* Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property
* Seventh Circuit Review
* The Journal of International and Comparative Law
* Satyam: The Chicago-Kent College of Law's Journal on South Asia and the Law (Satyam was founded in 2011 by Chicago-Kent's South Asian Law Students Association. It is believed to be the first law journal of any American law school to focus exclusively on South Asian and South Asian American legal affairs.)

References

External links

Official website

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1888 establishments in Illinois
Educational institutions established in 1888
Illinois Institute of Technology
Law schools in Illinois