DePaul University College of Law

Placement Success

First-Year IP/IT Summer Job Program

Students in the First-Year IP Legal Writing Program and other qualified students are placed in paid IP/IT summer positions with a variety of firms and organizations after their first year of law school. These job opportunities provide students with valuable legal experience as a significant first step on their career path.

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The following firms and organizations are participating in the 2006 Summer Job Program:

Armstrong Teasdale (St. Louis)
Babbitt & Melton
Barnes & Thornburg
Chicago History Museum
Cook Alex McFarron Manzo Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.
DePaul University General Counsel Office
Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery
Foley & Lardner
Hon. Amy St. Eve, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
Hon. Virginia M. Kendall, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
Professor Roberta Kwall (research assistant)
McAndrews Held & Malloy Ltd
McCracken & Frank
Patents + TMS
Perry Hoffman & Associates, P.C.
Rakoczy Molino Mazzochi LLP
Scandaglia & Ryan
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Professor Matthew Sag (research assistant)
Professor Katherine Strandburg (research assistant)
Welsh & Katz
Walgreens Inc.

The 2005 Summer Job Program participants can be found here.

Additional IP Placements

Each year, approximately 40 DePaul students and graduates obtain IP/IT positions both locally and nationally.

The 2006 placements include:

Amin Law
Beem Patent Law Office
Bell Boyd & Lloyd
Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione*
Burns Figa & Will PC
Cherskov & Flaynik
Cultural Property Office- US Dept of State
Dykema Gossett Rooks Pitts
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP
Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery*
Greenblum & Bernstein (Reston, VA)
Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.*
Grossman Law Offices
Hon. Mark Filip, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
IBM Global Services
IpHorgan Ltd.
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Kirkpatrick Lockhart Nicholson & Graham LLP
Kirkland & Ellis, LLP (Los Angeles)
Kirkland & Ellis (Chicago)
Ladas & Parry*
Lord Bissell & Brook
McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff
Nalco Co.
Neal Gerber & Eisenberg
Niro Scavone Haller & Niro
Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt (Alexandria, VA)
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies*
Stack & Filpi Chartered
Townsend & Townsend & Crew (San Francisco)
The Field Museum of Natural History
Van Dyke Gardner Linn & Burkhart (Grand Rapids, MI)
Walgreens Inc.*
World Intellectual Property Organization

* indicates multiple placements

CIPLIT's 2005 placements can be found here.

News

9th Annual CIPLIT Symposium & Niro Lecture

Cyberlaw 2.0: Legal Challenges of an Evolving Internet

October 15-16, 2009
DePaul Center 8005

Cyberlaw 2.0: Legal Challenges of an Evolving Internet brought together a group of distinguished scholars to contemplate the ramifications of new internet technologies and the changing role of the internet in society. These developments bring, as technological advances often do, both opportunities and risks. Correspondingly, cyberlaw doctrine now confronts challenges resulting from the increasing importance of social networking applications and cloud computing, the drive toward “personalization” of search, advertising, and other internet experiences, and, as life is lived more and more online, the related threats to private life caused by the potential to store more and more complete records of individuals’ experiences. Our speakers explored the ways in which Web 2.0 and beyond affects a wide spectrum of legal issues, ranging from privacy and freedom of expression through intellectual property.

The 12th Annual Niro Distinguished Intellectual Property Lecture and Luncheon was sponsored by Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro. It was held on October 15, 2009 in conjunction with the Symposium. This year the lecture was given by Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School’s William H. Neukom Professor of Law.

For more information including Papers and Powerpoints from the lectures, a list of Featured Speakers, and the Symposium Schedule, please visit our Symposium Website.

To read an article published in the Daily Law Bulletin about the conference, please click here.

Protecting Your Marks In & From the New Top Level Domains

September 16, 2009
12:00pm – 5:00pm
DPC 8005

This half-day seminar took a detailed, practical look at the process by which an applicant becomes a registry for a new top level domain, as well as what a brand owner can do to stop a new top level domain that comes too close to an existing brand.

DePaul University College of Law is an accredited Illinois MCLE provider. This program had been approved for 3 hours of CLE credit.

For more information on this past event, please click here.

To watch videos from this event, download them from iTunes here.

Grammy Network Event

Building and Maintaining an Entertainment Law Practice Anywhere: Essential Knowledge, Marketing, Economic, and Ethics Considerations

September 10, 2009
3:00pm - 6:00pm
DPC 8005

A frank and factual discussion of the realities and practicalities of developing and maintaining an Entertainment Law Practice with an emphasis on Music Law and Business. Special attention was paid to the law office economics and ethical considerations consistently facing pro-active practitioners. Relevant cases, statues, rules and regulations governing these issues was raised also and was referenced and discussed.

DePaul University College of Law is an accredited Illinois MCLE provider. This program was approved for 2 hours of CLE credit.

For more information on this past event, please click here.

Visiting Artist Series
featuring Jazz Musician, Frank Catalano

Our 2009 Visiting Artist, noted jazz musician Frank Catalano, visited DePaul to discuss his working relationship with his attorney, Gregg Gansmann, and some of the legal issues he has faced in building a performance career in music.

See the news release from DePaul University here.

Click here to see videos from the event!