Chicago-Kent Lambdas

We’ve got two great events coming up this week that you should all attend.

First, Women In Law and Lambdas will be screening Miss Representation on Tuesday, March 6 at 5 PM in room C50! Pizza will be served! Screening of the movie will be followed by a discussion by Professor Baker!

Here’s a little bit about the film: Like drawing back a curtain to let bright light stream in, Miss Representation uncovers a glaring reality we live with every day but fail to see. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. The film challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself.

Second, on Wednesday, March 7, the Immigration Law Society and the Lambdas will be hosting a panel in Room 370 from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM on the Defense of Marriage Act and its effect on immigration law, titled “Challenging DOMA in the Immigration Context.” Speakers include: Justin Burton, Partner at Kriezelman Burton & Associates, and Keren Zwick, supervising staff attorney for the National Immigrant Justice Center’s LGBT Immigrant Rights Initiative. Food will be provided! Feel free to e-mail any questions to Pete Henry (PeterMHenry@gmail.com).

LAGBAC Tour of Wrigley Stadium planned for all participants in our mentoring program is this coming Saturday, November 19, at 3:00.

On November 19 we will meet at 3:00 p.m. under the sign at Addison/Clark.  The tour will start at 3:15 (but everyone should arrive by 3:00).  It will be about 70 minutes so we should be done by 4:30.  After the tour, we will head to a nearby bar for further revelry!

We need to give Wrigley an approximate headcount for the tour, so please RSVP to david.m.amen@gmail.com if you are planning on coming.

The next meeting of the CBA LGBT Committee will be November 16 at noon, in the CBA Building – 321 S. Plymouth Ct.  Alan Boudreau will discuss issues affecting the elderly LGBT community, a group facing substantial legal hurdles that our community often overlooks.  As always, our meetings are open to everyone – non-CBA members, law students, and non-attorneys.  Lunch will be provided at the meeting.  Please join us if you can!

Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm

Location: Room 170

Chicago-Kent students who have participated in the Judicial Internship Opportunity Program and Association of Corporate Counsel Minority Law Student Summer Program will discuss their experiences applying, interviewing and working with a judge or corporation over the summer. Food will be available. Please RSVP via the Events section of Symplicity for this program. More information on JIOP and ACC is below.

The Judicial Intern Opportunity Program (JIOP) is a summer internship program open to all first or second year minority or financially disadvantaged law students who want to do legal research and writing for state or federal judges in Illinois, Texas, Washington DC, Miami, Phoenix, and California. Interns will receive an award of $1,500. The time commitment can vary by student, subject to a six-week minimum. Detailed program information and applications are available at the program websitehttp://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/initiatives/good_works/judicial_intern_opportunity_program.html   Applications will be accepted beginning November 1st for second year students and December 1st for first year students. APPLICATIONS MUST BE COMPLETED BY January 6, 2012.

The Association of Corporate Counsel internship program places top minority law students in internships in corporate legal departments in the Chicagoland area. Examples of corporations that have participated in this program in the past are: Accenture, Alliant Credit Union, Career Education, Empire, Illinois Tool Works, McDonald’s Corporation, Navistar, Square D, Kraft, Verizon Wireless and Walgreens. Students in the program received a stipend in the summer of 2011 of $6000. The deadline to apply last year was February 1, 2011, and is subject to change this year. For more information on the internship program and for an application please see http://www.acc.com/chapters/chic/InternshipProgramInfo.cfm.

Kate Bornstein, a highly acclaimed gender theorist, is coming to Chicago-Kent!!!

Chicago-Kent’s Gender & the Law Society, a student organization dedicated to facilitating conversations on the interaction between legal theory and gender, is proud to host author, gender theorist, and performer Kate Bornstein for a speaking event at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Kate is best known for her work on postmodern gender theory and her book Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us.

Reception to follow in the lobby.

This is a FREE event open to the public! All are welcome!

We are excited to announce that our 2012 LGBTQ Civil Rights Conference will be held on February 24th and 25th. This is our second annual conference.

Last year, over 200 people attended including Chicago-area students, lawyers, judges and other professionals. This year we would like an even bigger turn out! Last year’s participants were treated to discussions of relevant, important, and exciting legal challenges that the LGBTQ community faces, ranging from Illinois Civil Unions to teen bullying.

More information will be available at our Conference webpage as it becomes available.

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