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The Record - Vol. 17, Issue 30

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FALL 1990 ADD-DROP COURSE ANNOUNCEMENTS

, From' 5 - 6 p.m. on Monday, April 23, evening Current Semester ,students may make program changes for the Fall 1990 Semester in priority number order as stu Warren Lavey, a partner in the Chicago law firm dents appear, of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, will speak on "Competitive Analysis and Business From 11:45 a.m. - 1:50 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24, Strategy" in Professor Joel Goldhar's MBA class day students may make program changes for the at 6 p.m. on Monday,April 23, in Room 203. Law Fall Semester in priority number as students ( students interested in attending should contact \ appear. Professor Goldhar in the MBA Office; classroom space in limited. Add-Drop will be held in the hallway outside, the Second Floor Cafeteria. Legal Drafting - All Sections Except 08 Gener al Practices (Krebs) FINAL EXAM SCHEDULES This week, Drafting classes will meet together on To: Students In Following Courses the following schedule for the first portion of From: Jerry Brandes, Registrar, class. Flexpractice, a computerizedlegal drafting Subject: Exam Schedule. Changes program, will be demonstrated. Sections 01, 02, 03, 04, 05 - Tues.! April 24 ~ Protessional Responsibility-Callens 4:05 - 5:35 p.rn., Room 203. , Scheduled for Tuesday, May 15, at 9 a.m. Room 102 (non-smoking), Room 101 Sections 51, 52 - Thurs.! April 26 (smoking). 7:35 - 8:05 p.rn., Room 642. Immigration Law-Kempster Afterthe demonstration, studentswill meet in their Scheduled for Thursday, May 17, at 6 p.m. regular classroomsfor the rest of that day's Legal (incorrectly schedued for Wed., May 16) Drafting class. Room 325 (non-smoking), Room 324 (smok ing), Attendance is mandatory. Criminal Law-Rudstein Scheduled for Tuesday, May 22 at 9 a.m (incorrectly scheduled for Mon., Ma Rooms 203, 204 (non-smoking), Room 223 (smoking). The Law School Record April 23, 1990

Summer 1990 Catherine Marie was born at 1:59 p.m. on April 17. She weighed nine pounds, 12 ounces and Copies of the syllabus for Professor Hylton's was 20 inches long. Parents and child are all fine. summer semester class, Main Themes in Ameri can History, are available from Ms. VLonda Jones on the Fifth Floor. STAFF NEWS

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Fall 1990 ADMISSIONS/FINANCIAL AID

Course Description Lesley Ann Oshiek, the new Assistant Director of Admissions/Financial Aid, will be available for appointments and consultation about financial aid LAW607, AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL matters starting Monday. April 23. If you would HISTORY: RACE AND AMERICAN LAW like to schedule an appointment with her, please stop by the Admissions Office, Room 307, or call SEMINAR - FALL SEMESTER 312-567-5012. Lesley Ann's office will be located MONDAYS, 4 - 6 P.M. in the Downtown Center. PROFESSOR GORDON HYLTON

The seminar will address the historical role of CONFERENCE ON PC STRATEGIES racial distinctions in America law. Topics dis FOR LAWYERS cussed will include the law of slavery; the place of slavery in the Constitution of 1787; the original liT Chicago-Kent College of Law and the Ameri understanding of the post-Civil War constitutional can Bar Association will present a seminar titled amendments; the law of racial segregation; the Computers as Your Expert Partner on Friday, NAACP campaign to abolish legal segregation; May 4, at the First Chicago Center, Madison and the civil rights movement; and affirmative action. Dearborn streets. This program, the Fifth Annual Although some attention will be paid to Chinese PC Strategies for Lawyers conference, is held in and Japanese-Americans, the primary focus of the conjunction with the First National Bank of Chica seminar will be the African-American experience. go and the ABA Section of Law Practice Manage A research paper is required in lieu of an exam. ment.

At the conference, the leading developers of FACULTY NEWS computer programs that automate substantive law systems will examine, describe, demonstrate and On April 13, Professor Jeffrey Sherman was dissect their software. ' interviewed on the 4 p.m. news broadcast on WLS-TV (Channel 7) lnconnection with a recent A limited number of Chicago-Kent students can Illinois probate case. .be accommodated at the conference without charge. (The standard registration fee is $350.) Professor Ronald W. Staudt has been selected Please note, however, that this complimentary as a National Reviewer for the Fourth Annual registration does not include a copy of the confer EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL Higher Education Software ence materials, Which are printed by the ABA. Award Competition. Professor Staudt will review educational software submitted to the awards Students who would like to attend the conference competition by law professors. The national must contact Theda Mickey by May 1 at ext. panel will meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on June 6800. 23-26 to select award winners, write citations for distinguished and best entries and plan the 1991 awards competition.

Professor Martin Malin and his wife, Joyce u Willenborg, have a new addition to their family.

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CONSTRUC Second-year evening students may also partici TION KICK-OFF CELEBRATION pate in the write-on Program. The Law Review will explain the write-on program at two informa On Saturday, May 12, the liT Chicago-Kent Alum tional meetings: ni Association will sponsor a Construction Kick-Off Celebration to commemorate the groundbreaking Tuesday, April 24, at 11:45 a.m. in Room 642; for the new liT Downtown Center. All students and are invited to attend at a reduced price of $20 per Wednesday, April 25, at 5 p.m. in Room 642. person. The party will be held under a tent at the new building site at Jefferson and Adams streets. Each meeting will last no longer than one hour. The evening will begin with a reception (open bar) Those who cannot attend should stop by the Law at 6:30 p.m. Dinner will be served at 7:30 p.m. Review Office, Room 331, with any questions. Construction hard hats, with the law school's logo, will be given to all guests. Paul Price, '71, president of the Alumni Association, will present RESEARCH ASSISTANTS SOUGHT the Professional Achievement Award to Thomas Demetrio, '73, and the Distinguished Service From: Professor Hylton Award to Judith Munson, '76. Interim Dean Joan Summer Research Assistant Steinman and President-Elect Lewis Callens will also make remarks. Dancing to the Grady John Professor Gordon Hylton is looking for a research son Band will cap off the evening. If you would assistant for the summer. Some background in like to attend, contact Sandy in the Alumni Rela American History would be helpful. Interested tions office, Room 319, or call 567-5766. students should submit a resume (hand-written okay) by May 1 to Professor Hylton in Room 510.

LEGAL PHILOSOPHY SYMPOSIUM From: Professor Hablutzel Students are Invited to attend the Symposium on Summer Research Assistant Classical Philosophy and the American Con stitutional Order that will be held on Tuesday, Professor Philip Hablutzel is seeking either one May 22, at the law school. The program will bring student for 40 hours per week or two students for together several of North America's. leading 20 hours per week each for the summer to re scholars in political and legal philosophy to search the law of limited partnerships, corpora explore the meaning of classical philosophy and tions and the taxation of such entities. The its relevance to contemporary government and research will lead to the drafting of a statute law. The symposium is being sponsored by the creating limited liability companies for Illinois. law school in conjunction with the Chicago-Kent Please submit a resume to Barbara Washington, Law Review. Room 626, and state whether you are available for full-time or half-time work. The $50 registration fee ($75 after May 11) will be waived for students who choose not to attend the buffet luncheon and reception being held in From: Professor Rudstein conjunction with the. symposium. For more information, contact Bill Morse on the Third Floor, Summer Research Assistant ext. 5961. Professor David Rudstein is seeking one or two first- or second-year students to work approxi LAW REVIEW mately 20 hours per week each during the sum mer as research assistants. Duties will include research in various areas of constitutional criminal This summer, Law Review will invite several procedure. Work hours are somewhat flexible. students to be members of the 1990-91 Chicago Students who are .Interested should submit a Kent Law Review. Those first-year students who resume to Professor Rudstein In Room 640 as do not grade-on may attempt to write-on throuqh soon as possible. the Law Review's Summer Candidacy Program.

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From: Professor Brill on the central staff in August 1990, when a cur Research Assistant rent staff attorney moves into a judicial clerkship. The duties will be the same as those of the Professor Ralph Brill is seeking a second- or judges' law clerks and will include reading the third-year student as a research assistant. Work record on appeal and the briefs in the assigned will consist of collecting and analyzing recent cases; researching law cited by the parties and Illinois tort cases and statutes. Work hours are engaging in independent research; preparing flexible and will average 15 hours per week. analytical memoranda in advance of oral argu Preference will be given to students able to work ment; and preparing preliminary draft disposition throughout the year, but consideration will be for the authoring judge. Requirements include given to those available in the summer. Drop off excellent research and writing skills and gradua a resume and a note containing any other rele tion from an ABA-accredited law school. Law vant information about yourself. Review and/or Moot Court experience is a plus. Starting salary is $30,172 per year. In addition to this staff attorney position, several [udlclal clerk CAREER SERVICES NEWS ships throughout the Fourth District may also become available in the coming months. The judges' offices are in Bloomington, Paris, Charles Upcoming Career Services Program ton, Champaign and Lincoln. Third-year students and/or recent graduates interested in either type FALL ON-CAMPUS INTERVIEW PROGRAM of position should pick up Handout #40 for WORKSHOP: Attention all first- and second-year application procedures. students!! The informational workshop regarding the 1990 Fall On-Campus Interview Program HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO TUESDAY, APRIL 24. Skadden Fellowship Foundation 1991 Fellow There will be sessions at 12:45 p.m. and 5 p.m.: ships both will be held in Room 101. PLEASE MARK THESE CHANGES ON YOUR CALENDAR! The Skadden Fellowship Foundation, sponsored ( Students who will be starting their second or third -, by the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher years of law school in the fall and are planning to & Flam, annually provides support for 25 law participate in this interview program should attend school graduates and outgoing judlclal clerks who one of these sessions. Important information will want to work in the public interest sector. A be discussed which will prepare you for the fellowship is granted for one year, though it may program. Don't miss this opportunity to learn be renewed for a second year if requested and how the program works and what you must do to approved by the grant making panel. Under the participate next fall. structure of the fellowship program, all grants are made to the public interest organizations chosen by the Fellows themselves. These organizations Judicial Clerkship/Staff Attorney Opportunities are considered the "sponsoring" organizations and, therefore, applicants must find a potential job Justice Lawrence D. Inglis of The Appellate Court with a public interest agency sponsor before of Illinois • Second Judicial District will have an applying for a Fellowship. Application forms for opening for a law clerk beginning May 1, 1991. A the 1991 Fellowships are currently available in the second clerkship will-also be available September Career Services Office. Application deadline Is 1, 1991. Justice Inglis currently sits in WaUkegan October 15, 1990. but may be moving his chambers to Gurnee before the start of the clerkship term. Base salary is $31,448 with an increase to $34,448 following a 1990 NALP National Apartment Exchange three-month probationary period. Justice Inglis will accept applications beginning April 1, 1990. The first edition of the 1990 National Apartment For further information, pick up Handout #39 in Exchange directory has arrived and is available the Career Services Office. for review in the Career Services Office. Students seeking summer sublets (throughout the United The Appellate Court of Illinois • Fourth District States) should stop by to see what is available u (Springfield) anticipates a staff attorney vacancy

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through this exchange program. A second STUDENT ACTIVITIES edition will be published in the next few weeks; watch The Record for announcement of its arrival. Student Bar Association

Congratulations To The SSA Election EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Winners! Administrative Assistant, Chicago-Kent: To President Nick Dalmaso perform responsible clerical duties using indepen Vice President Leslie Quade dent judgment under general supervision and to Treasurer John Seifert undertake special assignments as needed by Secretary ...... Dawn Pearce faculty and administrative departments. Interact ISBA Rep Rob Graettinger with faculty, staff, students and general public by CBA Rep Kevin Gleason telephone or in person to provide information ABA Rep (Day) Sheryl Cohen about policies, practices, procedures. Make ABA Rep (Evening) ...... John Wynn independent decisions and judgments within limitations imposed by official policies, rules and .Second-Year Representatives: regulations. Organize and assemble materials for meetings, programs and reports. Type corre Michele Fullett spondence, manuscripts, reports and other Stephanie Kanarish material from handwritten copy, semi-finished W. Scott Nelson source material and/or recorded material. Pre Bill Sugarman ferred qualifications: an Associate's degree and two to three years of related experience or an Second-Year Evening Representatives: equivalent combination of education and experi ence. Ability to edit electronically stored informa Nancy Berte tion from a PC-basedwordprocessing system and Susan Craven to type at a rate of 50 words per minute. Estab lished Salary Minimum: $17,426/year. Third-Year Representatives: Students and staff members who havesuccessful Frank Betuca ly completed a six-month probationary emplo~ Ian Erdos ment period are welcome to apply for staff pOSI Rose Martyn tions open at the law school. Patrick Muldowny Also, in accordance with liT policy, a $100 referral Third-Year Evening Representatives: fee may be paid to any student or staff member who refers a qualified applicant for a full-time Mary Harris position. To receive the referral fee, the st.ude~t Robert Lueder or staff member making the referral must first fill out a referral form, which can be obtained from Fourth-Year Evening Representatives: the liT Office of Human Resources through the law school office. If.the person referred is hired Connie Jordon and completes three months of satisfactory Sharon Prayer employment, the student or staff member will receive the referral fee. Special congratulations to Lauren Lebold, who was appointed ISBA Representative for 1990-91.

Board of Governors Meeting

The final SSA Board of Governors meeting will be held at 5:15 p.m. on Monday, April 23, in Room 204. All current and newly elected SB·A members

5 The Law School Record April 23, 1990 should attend. Pizza and refreshments will be International Law Society served. Elections Bash Photos Society meetings will be held on April 24 at noon The Bash pictures are in! The pictures will be and at 5 p.m. in Room 208. Next year's officers posted in the Cafeteria. The order forms can will be elected and the year-end Banquet will be either be mailed to the address stated or placed discussed. Officer nominations should be made in the envelope on the SBA door. The pictures in writing to the Society Secretary. Please leave cost $3 each. them in the ILS mailbox in the College Office or put them on the bulletin board on the door to Room 223. Law Student Division of the Asian American Bar Association M.A.LS. Luncheon

We will meet on Tuesday, April 24, at 6 p.m. in Tentatively scheduled for May 1 at noon. Room 104. All interested day and evening stu dents are welcome. Banquet

If you are interested but cannot attend this meet The ILS year-end Banquet is tentatively scheduled ing, please contact Sung Hui Kim (929-0439), for April 27. Suggestions for the location are locker #76C, or Maiya Lueptow (864-5182). welcome and should be made to any of the Society's officers.

Christian Legal Society Events

"Where two or three are gathered in My name, May 3, 12:15 p.m.: The role of Jetro in U.S. there am 1." Japan Competition (Antitrust). Sponsored by Chicago Bar Association The Christian Legal Society gathers every Thurs day at 1 p.m. in Room 208 for discussion and May 4, 9 - 5 p.m.: Fifth Annual ABC's of Interna fellowship. All students and faculty are welcome. tional Law. Sponsored by Illinois State Bar Association.

Health Law Society For more information on any of these functions, contact Dale Richards (567-5879) in Room 223 or call the appropriate program sponsor. The society's first meeting will be held at 11:45 a.m. on Tuesday, April 24, in" Room 105. All students interested in this new student organiza tion are welcome. Our speaker will be Rowine Loan Forgiveness Program Brown, M.D., J.D., who will talk about her experi ences in health law. Refreshments will be served. Applications will be out soon. A meeting will held on Tuesday, April 24, at 11:50 a.m. in Room 204 to discuss the application process and further Justinian Society fundraising. All students who plan to practice law for private not-far-profits, public defenders, states attorney offices or a governmental agency should Our last social event of the semester will be held attend. on Thursday, April 26. We will attend the 7:30 p.m. show of the Italian film Cinema Paradiso, which won the 1990 Oscar for Best Foreign Film, at the Fine Arts Theatre (yes, there are subtitles!). We will meet in the lobby at 5:15 p.m. so we'll have time for dinner before the show. Hope to see you all therel ..

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Student Tax Society

Lunch and Learn Session

Join the Student Tax Society in "Conversations with the IRS", featuring Eva Farkas, technical advisor to the Chicago District Dlrector, at noon on Thursday, May 26, in Room 204. Ms. Farkas will address practitioner. concerns and answer questions. Please drop a note to Locker 268 (Third Floor) to indicate what particular IRS issues you would like to be discussed. Lunch will be served. Bring a friend.