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Upcoming CLE: Litigating Workplace Sexual Violence Cases

Save the date for an upcoming CLE co-sponsored by TUPOCC!

Building Your Arsenal: Tools for Successfully Litigating Workplace Sexual Violence Cases

Learn more about successfully representing clients in sexual harassment cases. Filing a discrimination complaint may only be one component of an effective representation strategy. This interactive session will provide tools to better represent clients struggling with post-traumatic stress and encourage participants to use the law creatively to empower survivors.

Where: Kirkland & Ellis, LLP

             300 N. LaSallle, Room 7KLM

When: April 17, 2014

            1:00pm – 5:00pm

4 hour CLE credit will be given!

Discussion will include an analysis of:

  • The Illinois Gender Violence Act
  • Immigration relief for survivors
  • Survivor centered litigation
  • Anti-trafficking laws, and more

Speakers:

Sheerine Alemzadeh, Staff Attorney with Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation

Karla Altmayer, Equal Justice Works Fellow with LAF

Allison Creekmur, VISTA attorney with LAF

*RSVP to kaltmayer@lafchicago.org with your name and organization name by April 4, 2014

                          

          

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Fred Korematsu Day

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Thursday, January 30th, 11:45am-1pm
DePaul College of Law, 25 E. Jackson Blvd, Room 903
Fred Korematsu is the Japanese-American man who would not consent to being interned after President Roosevelt ordered that all Japanese-Americans be interned as World War II began. He is also the individual responsible for the landmark Korematsu v. United States case.
Join us for a screening of the brief film “Of Civil Rights and Wrongs” about Korematsu’s life and a discussion about the racial profiling he endured then and the racial profiling too often experienced by people of color today.
Reflections by:
Kiyo Yoshimura 
Former internee in Japanese-American internment camps
 
Rabya Khan
Staff attorney with the Council on American-Islamic Relations

Sponsors: CAIR-Chicago, National Lawyers Guild-Chicago TUPOCC, Japanese American Citizens League, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Chicago, South Asian American Policy & Research Institute, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, The Chicago International Social Change Film Festival, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum-Chicago 

 

Student Group Sponsors: DePaul NLG, DePaul APALSA, Northwestern University South Asian Law Student Association, and Northwestern University APALSA, Chicago-Kent APALSA 

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(dis)Orientation 2013 — It’s Not You, It’s Law School!

Chicago City-wide National Lawyers Guild presents:

 (dis)Orientation *2013*

It’s not you, it’s law school.

Date: September 21, 11am-5pm (followed by HAPPY HOUR!). Lunch included.

Location: Chicago-Kent College of Law, 565 W. Adams St.

Panels Include:

*Welcome to the Guild!*
*Student Tips & Tricks–Surviving Law School without Losing Your Soul*
*Legal Observer AND First Defense Legal Aid Know Your Rights & Hotline Training!*
*Critical Theory: What You Won’t Hear in the Classroom*
*Radical Career Paths*

Interested in social justice lawyering?! NLG is the place to be! Get introduced to the Guild and find out what it’s all about. Plus, a chance to meet and network with NLG law students and Guild lawyers from all over the City!

 RSVP by filling out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JdJ2UAz0COdeDec6ucg7jlXR7wk4j_snXyw3fot460M/viewform

https://www.facebook.com/events/502601089831033/

In addition: NLG presents: LIVE Screen printing.

Upcycle your wardrobe with our live screen printing setup at (dis)Orientation! Bring your old clothes, pick an awesome design and ink color, and we’ll turn that forgotten sweater into something special.


Please join us afterwards for a special post Dis-O Next Gen Happy Hour with law students from all schools!

Come out to this special happy hour hosted by the Next Gen Committee and welcome students who have just completed the great DisOrientation program! Let’s show them the Guild community and and how great it is here in Chicago.

When: Saturday, Sept. 21st  5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Where: Dylan’s Tavern and Grill

118 South Clinton Street (DisOrientation is at Kent so we want to be nearby)

Specials: Great food and great beer, and a full bar

$5 Corona,

$5 Modelo 

$5 Dos Equis  

Other specials to be announced that day 

The Next Gen Happy Hour:  Every month, the Next Gen Committee of the National Lawyers Guild of Chicago throws a happy hour to bring together young, progressive, and radical attorneys, law students, and legal workers to drink, socialize, organize, and relax.  Join us!

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NextGen Happy Hour at Clark Street Ale House

Next Gen Post Bar Exam Celebratory Happy Hour at Clark Street Ale House! 

Come out and celebrate those who have finished the bar and enjoy a great summer happy hour! 

When: Friday, August 2nd, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Where: Clark Street Ale House  742 North Clark Street

Hopefully on the back patio!

The Next Gen Happy Hour:  Every month, the Next Gen Committee of the National Lawyers Guild of Chicago throws a happy hour to bring together young, progressive, and radical attorneys, law students, and legal workers to drink, socialize, organize, and relax.  Join us!

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Anti-Eviction Campaign, Ben Austen, and Edward Voci to speak at Loyola

Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign

Join in a discussion with J.R. Fleming, Toussaint Losier, and other Anti-Eviction Campaign activists, attorney Edward Voci, and Ben Austen, author of the NYT article,

“The Death and Life of Chicago*”

*http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/magazine/how-chicagos-housing-crisis-ignited-a-new-form-of- activism.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Chicago has a shortage of 120,000 units of affordable housing and some 100,000 people sleeping in shelters or on the street each year. J.R. Fleming calls this a moral crisis rather than a housing crisis. Please come and explore the intersection of issues of homelessness, lack of affordable housing, and the mortgage foreclosure crisis in Chicago.

  • Loyola School of Law, 25 E Pearson(near the Chicago Red Line stop), Rm 1303 (13th floor)

  • Tuesday, June 25th, 5:30 – 6:45 p.m.

  • Refreshments will be served (though you need not RSVP to attend, if you email emlynr@gmail.com no later than noon on Monday, June 24th, we’d appreciate it)

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Odette Wilkens to Speak on the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act at Chicago-Kent

Odette Wilkens of the Equal Justice Alliance will speak at Chicago-Kent College of Law about the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.

Passed by Congress in November 2006, the AETA is aimed at suppressing speech and advocacy surrounding certain industries by criminalizing First Amendment-protected activities such as protests, boycotts, picketing and whistle-blowing. The statute punishes anyone found to have caused the loss of property or profits by a business or other institution that uses or sells animals (or animal products), or has “a connection to, relationship with, or transactions with an animal enterprise.”

Ms. Wilkens will speak about how the AETA presents legal challenges for activists and the ongoing challenge to its constitutionality. The event is free and open to the public. It will be held on April 9, 2013 from noon to 1:00 pm in Room C40 of Chicago-Kent College of Law, located at 565 W. Adams St.

Contact

637 S. Dearborn St., 3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60605

(773) 492-1405
chicago[@]nlg.org