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The stars aligned for Turner Stanton, JD/MBA ’26, who is spending his summer doing exactly what he’d hoped to do and where—working for Sidley Austin LLP in San Francisco, California, within the hub of biotech and AI technology innovation.
Taylor Begin, ’27, spent her 1L summer as a research associate at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy.
Harmela Anteneh, ’26, has had a busy summer. A Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Scholar, she split her time working in Disney’s in-house legal department and working as a summer associate at Paul Hastings in Los Angeles.
Spending his summer as a legal extern in downtown Chicago’s massive federal courthouse, Danny Jacobs, ’27, has been enthralled by watching the law play out in real time in court. It’s an experience that he says every law student should seek out at least once before graduating.
Faculty in the News
A Chicago Sun-Times news article on police discipline in Chicago quoted clinical professors Craig B. Futterman and Sharon R. Fairley.
The article says that Chicago’s new police oversight chief “has repeatedly wiped out or dramatically scaled back recommendations to fire officers following pushback from the city’s top cop.
On July 8 in ChemImage Corp. v. Johnson & Johnson, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York handed down a decision with important implications for contractual relationships that are currently governed by joint steering committees, and for structuring and incorporating joint steering committee provisions into strategic contracts in the future, writes Lisa Bernstein and co-authors Reginald Goeke and Brad Peterson in a Law360 "Expert Analysis" piece.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is railing against voter suppression—in Texas. He’s grandstanding on late-night TV as he hosts Democratic lawmakers fleeing the Lone Star State to block GOP redistricting efforts. But if he’s serious about democracy, Mr. Pritzker should start at home, where his state has its own form of voter suppression: Illinois holds local elections in February during off-cycle years, which keeps turnout low and helps insiders cling to power.
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