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Chicago-Kent Welcomes Its Most Selective Incoming Class
Chicago-Kent College of Law has welcomed its most academically selective incoming class in its history, with 279 students joining the J.D. program this fall, 40 of whom are evening students...
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Chicago-Kent Student Earns CHIWIP Scholarship
When Olivia (Villamagna) Staib (LAW 3rd Year) talks about the Chicago intellectual property community, she doesn’t start with patents or trademarks. She starts with the people. “Everyone is so warm...
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‘Help Those People’: Chicago-Kent Celebrates Public Interest at 19th Annual Awards
According to the Law School Admission Council, a not-for-profit organization that is committed to promoting quality, access, and equity in law and education, 49 percent of 2024–25 LSAT takers were...
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Law Student Honored by American College of Bankruptcy
The American College of Bankruptcy has chosen Rachel Lehmann ’26 as its 2026 Seventh Circuit Distinguished Student. The Distinguished Bankruptcy Student program aims to “identify and promote prospective leaders in...
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Heading to Nationals—Again
The Chicago-Kent College of Law Trial Advocacy Team is heading back to the National Trial Competition after dominating the Midwest Regional for the third year in a row. This marks...
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Learning by Teaching: Law Students Turn Celebrity Legal Battles into Civics Lessons
“There is a very big difference between understanding something and understanding it well enough to explain it to someone else ,” says Cody Clark ’26, paraphrasing Albert Einstein. Clark is...
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Legal Triage: Chicago-Kent Students Get Real-World Immigration Law Training
“It’s not something you can necessarily prepare for,” says Gaby Treviño-Gutiérrez ’26. “It’s like legal triage, in a sense.” In May 2025, Treviño-Gutiérrez and four other Chicago-Kent College of Law...
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Focusing on Protecting Survivors: More Perfect Union Writing Competition Winner Named
“I think that there’s a great illusion that a lot of us care about domestic violence, but many people don’t understand the actual inner workings and the more complicated side...
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Judicial Discretion: Chicago-Kent Professor Cited by Federal Judge
“It’s really an honor to know that your work has been valuable to a judge,” says Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Sarah Fackrell. “It’s always nice to know that we’re...
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Setting Goals: Chicago-Kent Students Volunteer at Fourth Annual Public Service Day
“I would bet that most of you came to law school wanting to make the world a better place,” Chicago-Kent College of Law Assistant Teaching Professor Alexander Rabanal said in...