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The Advocate

Corporate Lab Course Gives Students Hands-on Experience
July 30, 2010

There's an old saying that law school doesn't teach you how to be a lawyer, just how to think like one. The adage has an uncomfortable ring of truth that has become a hot-button issue among legal educators.

Longtime Clinic Case Reaches Its End
June 8, 2010

The Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic's Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project began representing Italo Sanders when he was 16 years old, accused of killing a man based on the word of a 7-year-old eyewitness in Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes.

Students Spearhead Win for Police Accountability Project
May 17, 2010

While working for the Police Accountability Project at the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, I had the incredible experience of representing a client at trial in Cook County Circuit...

Randolph Stone Welcomes New Members of Illinois State Bar
May 14, 2010

University of Chicago Law School Clinical Professor Randolph Stone welcomed about 500 lawyers into the Illinois State Bar last week, encouraging them to find mentors and treat each case with seriousness and respect.

Students Help Preserve Affordable Housing
February 23, 2010

Two students in the Law School's Housing Initiative have put the finishing touches on their project to refinance a low-income Chicago housing complex, a move that will help keep the complex affordable for its tenants and will generate more than half...

Alison Siegler Testifies Before United States Sentencing Commission
January 25, 2010

Last week, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic’s Federal Criminal Justice Project Alison Siegler testified at the...

Federal Criminal Justice Project Wins Sentence Reduction for Client
November 17, 2009

University Web Feature: Law Students Help Build Supreme Court Case
November 9, 2009

When third-year law student Kathleen Rubenstein was a child, she dreamed of being a Supreme Court Justice. So it was a huge thrill for her to be part of a legal team from the Law School that helped prepare a case...

Criminal Defense Lawyers to Honor Randolph Stone for Lifetime Achievement
October 30, 2009

“The goal is not perfection; the goal is excellence,” Randolph Stone, Clinical Professor of Law, is often heard saying in the halls of the Law School’s Mandel Legal Aid Clinic.

Clinic Students Help See Case to Supreme Court
October 26, 2009

Four current and former Law School students were on hand at the Supreme Court of the United States on Wednesday, Oct. 14 to hear oral arguments on a case they had been working on for months.