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Kane Center Clinics Hiring for Summer 2013

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2013 Summer Jobs in the Kane Center Clinics
Law School Office of Communications
January 8, 2013

In summer 2013 the clinical law program plans to hire a number of law students to work in the various clinics in the Kane Center.  Positions will be open for the following clinics:

Faculty: 
Jeff Leslie

Employment Discrimination Clinic Files Brief On Sovereign Immunity in the Illinois Appellate Court

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July 18, 2012

The Employment Discrimination Clinic recently wrote and filed a Brief in consolidated appeal of two cases in the Illinois Appellate Court.  The Clinic’s clients each sued the State of Illinois, in its capacity as their employer, for employment discrimination.  The cases were both dismissed below on jurisdictional grou

Employment Discrimination Project Clients Awarded $11 Million Consent Decree

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EEOC Race Discrimination Case Against YRC/Yellow Transportation Ends with $11 Million Decree
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Press Release
June 29, 2012

An $11 million consent decree entered here today in federal court has ended the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) race harassment and discrimination lawsuit against a major transportation company. Magistrate Judge Susan E. Cox granted preliminary approval of the decree.  

Read more at: 

http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/6-29-12a.cfm

Faculty: 
Randall D. Schmidt

Employment Discrimination Clinic Student Argues Before Seventh Circuit

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April 11, 2012

Recently, Lily Becker ('12) from the Employment Discrimination Clinic argued her client's appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.  Here is Lily's account of that experience.

Employment Discrimination Clinic Files Class Action Challenge to Race Discrimination on South Side of Chicago

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February 29, 2012

Cockroaches crawling out of your cable set-top box rates high on the ‘ick’ scale.  But on the south side of Chicago, it may be symptomatic of a deeper problem, and one that Wes Griffith (’12), Adam Susser (’13), and Professor Randy Schmidt

Randall D. Schmidt

Clinical Professor of Law

Randall Schmidt received his BA in 1976 from the University of Illinois  and his JD from the Law School in 1979. Following law school, Mr. Schmidt practiced law with the Chicago law firm of Aaron, Schimberg, Hess, Rusnak, Deutsch and Gilbert. At that firm, he practiced in the area of commercial litigation.  

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