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Chicago-Kent College of Law is an ABA accredited law school in Chicago, Illinois. Chicago-Kent is part of the Illinois Institute Of Technology . The School's name is a combination of two law schools which merged in 1900 to form present day Chicago-Kent: the Chicago College of Law and the Kent College of Law. Chicago-Kent is considered one of Chicago's top law schools - criteria for admission has increased dramatically in the past five years. The 2005 full-time entering class has a median LSAT of 161, a median GPA of 3.50.
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ACADEMICS

  • Chicago-Kent teaches a standard first year law school curriculum with courses in Torts, Contracts, Criminal Law, Property and Civil Procedure.

  • The school places a heavy emphasis on Legal Research and Writing . Kent's writing curriculum has been used as a model for other programs.

  • Students are well prepared to take the Illinois bar exam, with an 88.5% first time pass rate .



HISTORY

  • The school is founded as the Chicago College of Law in 1888.

  • Chicago College of Law and the Kent College of Law merge to form the Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1900.

  • The school received its American Bar Association accreditation in 1936.

  • Chicago-Kent and the Illinois Institute Of Technology merged in 1969.

  • Landmark three year legal writing program begins in 1978.



NOTABLE ALUMNI

  • Ida Platt, 1894. First black woman admitted to the Illinois bar, second woman of color admitted to bar in the United States.

  • Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, 1925. Appointed to Federal Court for the Northern District of Illinois by President Kennedy, 1963.

  • Richard B. Ogilvie , 1949. Illinois Governor, 1969-1973.



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