Julian Cagadas '19 wins Corporate Legal Operations Consortium scholarship
Julian Cagadas, a third-year student at Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Tech, has been selected to receive a 2018‒19 scholarship from the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium. The scholarship is awarded to graduate students who have a business/metrics-driven focus related to the practice of law or who have demonstrated an interest in legal operations.
A native of Chicago, Cagadas earned his undergraduate degree in accounting at Northern Illinois University. He participated in the U.S. Air Force ROTC program during college and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant after graduation. While in the Air Force, he served as a nuclear launch operations officer for the U.S. military’s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile system in central Montana and was promoted to the rank of Captain.
After being honorably discharged, Cagadas worked as a financial analyst at Accenture in Chicago and then decided to serve his community as a police officer. His exposure to the law on the job inspired him to apply to Chicago-Kent. He started off as a part-time student, working the night shift as a patrol officer for the first two years, before electing to finish his final year as a full-time student.
At Chicago-Kent, Cagadas was immediately drawn to the Law Lab, an interdisciplinary teaching and research center devoted to legal futurism, led by Professor Daniel Martin Katz and Associate Director Alex Rabanal. Cagadas felt that his business background and exposure to group-oriented projects in the military and law enforcement would serve well in a legal operations environment. During his first year of law school, he was a fellow and A2J research assistant for the Law Lab. He is enrolled in Chicago-Kent's J.D. Certificate Program in Legal Innovation + Technology and recently received a Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification in his Legal Project Management class facilitated by Seyfarth Shaw. This summer, Cagadas is an intern at the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division in Chicago.
Founded in 1888, Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, also known as Illinois Tech, a private, technology-focused, research university offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, science, architecture, business, design, human sciences, applied technology, and law.
