1L Monica Masini Awarded Hon. Timothy C. Evans (’69) Scholarship
Monica Masini, a first-year student at UIC John Marshall, has been awarded the 2020 Honorable Timothy C. Evans Scholarship. The award was presented virtually to Masini at the Annual Meeting of the...
View ArticleUIC John Marshall Hosts Virtual Discussions on Historic SCOTUS Livestreams of...
When the United States Supreme Court announced it would be livestreaming oral arguments for the first time in history, UIC John Marshall Law School in Chicago tapped its in-house legal experts to...
View ArticleRising 3L Jerrilyn Gumila Awarded Joseph J. Duffy Trial Advocacy Scholarship
Third-year student, Jerrilyn Gumila, has been selected as the 2020 recipient of The Joseph J. Duffy Trial Advocacy Scholarship in the amount of $8,000, which will be applied evenly towards her tuition...
View ArticleSummer Associate Program Featured on Law.com
As published by Law.com UIC John Marshall’s new Summer Associate Training Academy was featured in an article on Law.com. The Training Academy is a 10-week summer program designed by Dean Dickerson to...
View ArticleAlumni Class Notes | May 2020
1979 Joseph Duffy will serve on the Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board.* Duffy was previously appointed to the Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board in 2015. He currently practices law at Loeb...
View ArticleUIC John Marshall Hosts CNN’s Bakari Sellers for a Special Discussion about...
On June 8, UIC John Marshall Law School in Chicago hosted Bakari T. Sellers for “A Conversation about Race & Injustice in America.” Sellers is an attorney, political commentator and activist. His...
View ArticleAlumni Class Notes | June 2020
1996 Christopher S. Hennessy was named co-chair of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation, Employment & Labor Relations Law Committee for the 2020-21 bar year. He previously served as...
View ArticleBestselling Author and Attorney Bryan Stevenson Surprises Admitted Students...
Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative Founder and MacArthur Genius grant recipient, surprised newly admitted UIC Law students when he dropped into an online book discussion about his memoir, Just...
View ArticleRising 3L Kimberly Cross Wins Top Prize in BWLA’s Spring Essay Scholarship...
Kimberly Cross, a rising third-year student at UIC John Marshall, won first place in the Black Women Lawyers’ Association Spring Essay Scholarship competition. Cross won the grand prize of a $5,000...
View ArticleIP Program Plans Several Programs and Initiatives for Fall 2020
On September 11, 2020, senior counsel from Microsoft, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Estée Lauder, the Motion Picture Association of America and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
View ArticleFaculty Activities & Publications | July 2020
FACULTY Dean Darby Dickerson She was invited to serve on the NCBE Testing Task Force – Test Design Committee. Her comments were included in stories from the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and WAND–TV about...
View ArticleProfessor Hugh Mundy Says ‘Don’t Defund the Police, Refund the Police and...
As published by Chicago Daily Law Bulletin Professor Hugh Mundy published his op-ed in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin discussing police reform and ways of reassessing, reorganizing and reallocating...
View ArticleRising 3L Nathan Virag Selected for Equal Justice Works National Advisory...
Nathan Virag, a rising third-year student at UIC Law in Chicago, has been selected by Equal Justice Works for its 2020-2022 National Advisory Committee. Virag was chosen in recognition of his...
View ArticleRising 3L Alexa Giralamo Recaps Patent Prosecution Case for JD Supra
As published in JD Supra Alexa Giralamo, a rising third-year student at UIC Law, co-wrote an article for JD Supra about the federal patent prosecution case In re Boloro Global Ltd. She focused on the...
View ArticleAlumni Class Notes | July 2020
2009 Rolonda Mitchell has been named Will County Ethics Adviser.
View ArticleUIC Law Hosts Next Video in “Law in the Time of Coronavirus” Series
On August 13, UIC Law hosted “Inequities in the Time of Coronavirus,” the sixth video discussion in the Law School’s “Law in the Time of Coronavirus” series. This virtual roundtable featured Professors...
View ArticleFaculty Activities & Publications | August 2020
FACULTY Dean Darby Dickerson She served as moderator for the “Why & When: Deciding to Become a Dean” panel at the annual Promoting Diversity in Law School Leadership Conference, co-sponsored by...
View Article2L Natalie Elizaroff Offers Tips for First-Generation Law Students
As published by Chicago Bar Assocation Natalie Elizaroff, a second-year student at UIC Law, recently published an article for the Chicago Bar Association’s @theBar publication based on her experience...
View ArticleAlumni Class Notes | August 2020
1971 L. Leonard Lundy was rated a top 5 personal injury attorney in Philadelphia. 1976 Ronald J. Szymanski has been recognized as a Professional of the Year for 2020 by Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide...
View Article3L Jason Pica II Explores What a Career in Divorce Law Looks Like
As published by the Chicago Bar Association Jason Pica, a third-year student at UIC Law, published an article for the Chicago Bar Association @theBar about how his experience as a child of divorce led...
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