Kent College of Law
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| Established | 1888 |
| School type | Private |
| Dean | Harold J. Krent |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Enrollment | 944 (780 Full-Time, 164 Part-Time) |
| Faculty | 74 Full-Time |
| USNWR ranking | 72 |
| Bar pass rate | 97%. |
| Website | Chicago-Kent College of Law |
Chicago-Kent College of Law is a law school affiliated with the Illinois Institute of Technology. It is the second oldest law school in the state of Illinois. Its trial advocacy program is ranked in 2015 by U.S. News and World Report as the fourth best program in the country. According to Chicago-Kent's 2014 American Bar Association-required disclosures, 85% of the 2014 class secured a position six months after graduation; of these 248 employed graduates, 172 were in positions requiring passage of the bar exam.
The 2015 edition of U.S. News & World Report ranked Chicago-Kent College of Law:
Recent Leiter’s Law School Rankings placed the law school:
Vault's 2007 Top 25 Most Underrated Law Schools ranked the law school:
The Chicago-Kent Trial Advocacy Team won the 32nd and 33rd annual National Trial Competition Championships.
Members of the Chicago-Kent Moot Court Honor Society won the 58th and 59th annual National Moot Court Competitions.
Chicago-Kent maintains the Midwest's highest ranking Environmental & Energy Law program.
Several law clerks receive tutorials in Appellate Judge Joseph M. Bailey’s chambers to prepare for the newly instituted Illinois bar examination. The evening sessions evolved into formal classes and, in 1888, the establishment of Chicago College of Law, the second law school in Illinois. Judge Bailey was selected as the school’s first dean.
Ida Platt graduates with honors from Chicago College of Law, and soon becomes the first black woman admitted to the Illinois bar--and only the second woman of color admitted to practice law in the United States. She later helped establish the Cook County Bar Association, the nation’s oldest African-American bar association.
Appellate Judge Thomas A. Moran is named Chicago College of Law’s second dean.
Marshall D. Ewell founds Kent College of Law, named for Chancellor James B. Kent, author of the influential Commentaries on American Law. Ewell serves as the school’s first and only dean.
Chicago College of Law merges with Kent College of Law, to form Chicago-Kent College of Law. Dean Thomas A. Moran of Chicago College of Law is named the new joint law school’s first dean.
The founding chapter of Phi Alpha Delta (PAD) is established at Chicago-Kent. PAD, the world’s largest law fraternity in the 21st century, has its roots in the charter chapters of Lambda Epsilon Fraternity at Kent College of Law and Chicago College of Law, which consolidated when the schools merged to form Chicago-Kent College of Law.
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