Tag: NIU Law
The NIU College of Law Alumni Council held its 10th annual golf outing June 6 at River Heights Golf Course. Golfers drove and putted their way around the course on a beautiful afternoon, all to have a good time and raise money for student scholarships. Proceeds from the generosity of sponsors and golfers go toward the...
The NIU College of Law will hold its 10th annual golf outing Friday, June 6, at River Heights Golf Course, 1100 S. Annie Glidden Road in DeKalb. Alumni and friends are invited as the college hopes to put 100 golfers on the course. Registration and lunch are scheduled from 11 a.m. to noon. The shotgun...
The NIU College of Law hosted alumni and guests May 19 as they were admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C. This year’s group of nine inductees included NIU Law alumni, faculty and members of the DeKalb County Bar Association. The exceptional day started at the Supreme...
The NIU College of Law held its 2014 commencement exercises May 24 at the NIU Convocation Center. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn honored the occasion by delivering the commencement address; ninety-nine graduates were awarded their Juris Doctor degrees. During his address, Quinn emphasized the key role of lawyers and legal professionals in shaping policy and action...
Gov. Pat Quinn will serve as the 2014 NIU College of Law commencement speaker, Dean Jennifer Rosato Perea announced. Ninety-nine students will receive their law degrees at the ceremony, which will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 24, at the NIU Convocation Center. “Gov. Quinn is committed to NIU Law’s core values of public...
Distinguished Teaching Professor David Taylor was voted “Professor of the Year” by the NIU Law Class of 2014. As Professor of the Year, Taylor will have the honor of addressing the class Saturday, May 24, during commencement and assisting with hooding the students during the ceremony. Taylor also received the accolade from the Classes of...
The Peggy Browning Fund has awarded a 10-week summer fellowship to John Festa, a second-year student at the NIU College of Law. Festa will spend the fellowship working at the Chicago Newspaper Guild in Chicago. Peggy Browning Fellows are distinguished students who have not only excelled in law school but who have also demonstrated their...
The Northern Illinois University College of Law welcomed attorney Jan R. Schlichtmann April 16 as he gave the Marla Dickerson Lecture on Public Interest in the college’s Francis X. Riley Courtroom. Schlichtmann is considered one of the country’s most notable plaintiff attorneys concentrating in the areas of consumer, environmental, product, toxic torts and mass tort...
A panel of distinguished female legal professionals spotlighted “Myra Bradwell: The Practice of Law in the Wake of Her Legacy,” a special event in honor of Women’s History Month held March 21 at NIU. The program was presented by the Illinois State Bar Association’s standing committees on Women and the Law and Racial and Ethnic...
NIU Law will host its 21st annual Francis X. Riley Lecture on Professionalism – “Professionalism and Ethics in Medicine, Business, and the Law: Are They Different?” – at 3 p.m. Friday, April 4, in the Riley Courtroom of Swen Parson Hall. This year’s lecture will be given by Dr. Kenneth C. Chessick, M.D and J.D. Dr....
Colleen M. Boraca has been named a clinical assistant professor at the Northern Illinois University College of Law, where she will supervise and teach the law school’s new health advocacy clinic course, beginning this semester. The NIU College of Law Health Advocacy Clinic in Aurora will feature teams of lawyers, medical professionals and social workers...
The Northern Illinois University College of Law recently held its 11th Annual Minority Alumni Reception. Dean Jennifer Rosato and alumnus Vincent Cornelius (’89) hosted more than 100 students, alumni, faculty, judges and political leaders from the Chicago area. The Feb. 19 reception included special presentations honoring Chicago’s 21st Ward Alderman Howard B. Brookins Jr. (’88)...
