All applicants must have scheduled and completed an interview with Professor Gross prior to turning in their applications. If you are interested in learning more about externship opportunities or in applying to the program, please see Professor Vivien Gross in Room 617. The Advice Desk program has immediate openings for law students to work with live clients in an exciting environment. The Advice Desk is located at the Daley Center in Chicago. In this program, senior law students interview, counsel, and advise clients, and draft pleadings and motions for indigent defendants being sued in Cook County.
Students work under the supervision of an experienced licensed attorney.
Students must be eligible for a 711 License, which requires that a student has completed 52 or more credit hours in law school. Prior experience as an Advice Desk class student is preferred but not required. We will provide all necessary training. ITEC attorneys and students help these companies stay abreast of the rapidly evolving legal issues relevant to the technology entrepreneur. These students will then travel into the Chicago legal market upon graduation, providing Chicago with technologically savvy lawyers to meet its developing technology law needs.