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 defedants being sued in Cook County.
Students work under the supervision of an experienced liscensed 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. The Office of the Attorney General is interested in working with Chicago-Kent students who are in need of an office in which to complete their externship programs. During the fall semester, there will be openings in the Medicaid Fraud Unit, Financial Crimes Unit, Revenue Prosecutions Unit and the Environmental Crimes Unit.