Next Week in LCS- 1/20/2012

Happy Friday from Law Career Services! We hope you are staying warm and dry despite the snow and temperature drop!

1L LCS Ambassador Applications: Are you looking to become involved with a two hour or less time commitment per month? LCS is still accepting 1L applications for its Ambassadors Program to help shape the policies of our office while also learning more about the services our office provides students and alumni. The application form can be found in the Symplicity Document Library. DEADLINE EXTENDED to Tuesday, January 24th.
Are you looking to get a leg-up on the competition for Postgraduate Judicial Clerkships? Please attend the Judicial Clerkship Application Nuts & Bolts program next Thursday, January 26 at 5:00 p.m. in 341 Lewis.  RSVP in Symplicity today.

Upcoming CBA Meetings for Next Week - Week of January 23, 2012

January 23
Business Law, Corp. Doc: Forms & Best Drafting Practices Sub (IL MCLE Credit, Webcast)
Panel discussion of estate planning considerations for the general practitioner.

Elder Law Committee (IL MCLE Credit)
Laura L. Lingl, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, elder law in the hospital setting.

Real Estate Taxation, Assessment & Appeals Subcommittee
Meeting cancelled.

Trust Law, Uniform Trust Act Subcommittee
Meeting cancelled.

January 24
Federal Taxation Committee (IL MCLE Credit, Webcast)
Mark Luscombe, Wolters Kluwer, tax law developments.

Intellectual Property Law Committee (IL MCLE Credit, Webcast)
Jeffrey A. Chelstrom, Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery, effects of the new patent rules on prior art.

YLS Real Estate Law Committee (IL MCLE Credit, Webcast)
Doug Henning, Ice Miller LLP, mechanics lien.

January 25
Class Litigation Committee (IL MCLE Credit)
Magistrate Judges Jeffrey T. Gilbert and Geraldine Soat Brown of Northern District of Illinois.

Human Rights Committee
Discuss progress on proposal to amend the IL Post Conviction Hearing Act and more.

Real Property Law Committee (IL MCLE Credit, Webcast)
Judge Lewis Nixon on the Supreme Court Committee on Mortgage Foreclosure.

Television Committee
Upcoming slate of "You and the Law" programming and more.

January 26
Alliance for Women Committee
Jennifer Bluestein, Greenberg Traurig LLP, creating a career plan for 2012.

YLS Environmental Law Committee (IL MCLE Credit, Webcast)
Panel on citizen suits under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

YLS Health & Hospital Law Committee
Meeting cancelled.

YLS Labor & Employment Law Committee (IL PR Credit)
Panel discussion on e-discovery and ethics in employment litigation.

January 27
YLS Diversity Committee
Resume review and drafting and interview skills workshop.

YLS Tort Litigation Committee (IL MCLE Credit, Webcast)
David Ryan, Patton & Ryan, social host liability in the wake of Bell v. Hutsell.

WHAT’S HOT AND WHAT’S NOT IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION

Robert Denney Associates has issued its year-end annual report on what’s going on in the legal profession, not only in the United States but also in other parts of the world.

Public Interest Summer Job Search Webinar Series: 1/25 and 2/1

 Law Career Services and the Center for Public Interest Law Present:

Free Webinar Series:  The Summer Public Interest Job Search: Expert Tips on Cover Letters, Resumes, Interviewing, and Networking

 This two-part webinar series, cosponsored by NALP and Equal Justice Works, will provide law students with insight on the key elements of the summer public-interest job application process.   Attorneys with years of application review experience will highlight do’s and don’ts; explain how and why public interest application materials may substantively differ from law firm materials; and explore the dynamics of personal interactions in interviews and networking situations.   

Etiquette Tip of the Week: Soup Spoons

When you are finished with your soup, if there is a service plate underneath your soup bowl or cup, leave the soup spoon on this plate, to the right of the soup bowl or cup.  If there is no plate underneath, leave the soup spoon in the bowl or cup with the handle at about four o'clock.