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.

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
CIPLIT's 2005 placements can be found here.
