Keystone Professionalism & Leadership Program

2011-2012 Keystone Professionalism & Leadership Program (“KPLP”)

The Law School is launching the Keystone Professionalism & Leadership Program, a new professionalism and leadership program designed to help students prepare for their legal careers.  The program will operate much like the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) programs licensed attorneys participate in throughout most of the United States.  If you decide to complete the program during the 2011-2012 academic year, you will be eligible to attend or receive priority for special events, to list your participation on your resume, will be eligible for special recognition at the end of the year, and students who earn the highest number of points will be eligible for a special lunch in recognition of their achievement. 

Here’s how it works:

• We have identified 10 categories and skill areas that lead to effective attorneys.  To complete the program successfully, attend programs that fall into at least 7 of those 10 categories.  Although a program may satisfy more than one category, you can only receive credit for one category per program.  (So, for example, if you attend a program that is advertised as satisfying two categories, when you go online to record your participation, that program counts as only one category.) 
• Each event that is eligible to satisfy KPLP requirements will be assigned a point value.  (Most lunch programs, for example, will be worth 10 points.)  You can earn up to 80 points from any one program or activity.  To complete the program, earn 200 points between September 1, 2011 and May 1, 2012.
• You cannot earn points for activities for which you earn course credit or receive a stipend or other payment.  For example, hours spent as a research assistant or working in the clinic do not count toward the program. 
• You will know whether events are eligible to satisfy KPLP requirements because the events will be advertised that way. 
• If you are organizing a program on behalf of a student organization and would like your program to qualify, please talk with Dean Gardner or Shannon Bartlett. 
• When you arrive at a program or event that you would like to count toward your KPLP points, be sure to sign in.  You will also need to log your participation online.  The online log will allow you to track your progress toward the 200 points, 7 categories goal.  

To track Keystone points, please follow these steps:

(1) Go to the law.uchicago.edu website.
(2) Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
(3) On the bottom right-hand side of the page, you will see "Log In."  Click on that link and log on with your CNet Id and password.
(4) Once you are logged on, click on "Creat Content."
(5) Click on "Keystone Professionalism & Leadership Program Log," either on the left-hand side of the page or in the center of the page.
(6) Fill in your First Name, Last Name, and select your Class Year.  Click on the drop-down menu for Program Attended and scroll down to the program that you wish to enter.  The entry will tell you how many points the program was worth and it will also tell you which category or categories the program fulfills.
(7) Click on the drop-down menu for Category, and select the appropriate category.
(8) Make sure that you save your entry.   

The number of programs or events that count toward the program is growing every day, and the Office of the Dean of Students will add them to the tracking website throughout the year.  We will also try to ensure that there is an opportunity to fulfill each category at least one time per quarter.  The categories of skills are: