The John Marshall Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law
Invites You to Discover Opportunities to Enhance Your Career
No matter what your area of practice, technology and privacy issues impact you and your clients every day. For 25 years, The John Marshall Law School Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law has been offering and fine-tuning continuing legal education courses and programs that help you stay ahead of the competition.
We offer two ways for you to pursue CLE:
- Our exceptional stand-alone CLE programs (view upcoming programs)
- Our renowned LLM program in IT and Privacy Law
All classes taken in our LLM degree program count for MCLE credit, so you can turn your MCLE requirements into a career enhancing LLM degree.
Practical skill-building courses offered on a flexible year-round schedule on evenings and weekends.
Dynamic, up-to-date curriculum examining issues ranging from information security, e-discovery, electronic commerce, international privacy protections, and regulatory compliance, to computer crime, information warfare and economic espionage -- all taught in an interactive style by recognized scholars and practitioners in information technology and privacy law.
Career-enhancing extra-curricular activities, networking, scholarly research projects, and placement opportunities.
Develop a marketable expertise for today's technology-driven world. Applications for the LLM degree program are being accepted now.
Upcoming CLE programs include:
Spring 2010
- Email Ethics, Etiquette and Efficiency
- March 30, 2010 from 12:00 - 1:30pm, Room 503 at The John Marshall Law School
- 1.5 hours of Professional Responsibility CLE Credit applied for
- Free Lunch
- A panel of experts will provide Real World Tips for making efficient, effective and ethical use of email communications, managing your inbox and avoiding common workplace email mistakes.
- Digital Dirt
- April 6, 2010 from 12:00 - 1:30pm, Room 503 at The John Marshall Law School
- 1.5 hours of Professional Responsibility CLE Credit applied for
- Free Lunch
- A panel of experts will discuss the impact that on-line profiles can have on your job search. Learn how employers use the internet in their hiring processes, what mistakes to avoid, and the positive ways that you can use the web to help you get a job.
- Information Overload (date TBA)
Save the date for The 29th Annual John Marshall Law School International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy Law October 28 - 30, 2010. (CLE for Judges)
Recent CLE programs include:
Gateways and Barriers to Law Practice Marketing Through Technology. This course will help you design a strategic marketing plan that maximizes the use of technology for specific practice settings, within ethical parameters and consistent with ideals of professionalism; you will learn to use cost-effective tools, such as blogs, social networks and twitter, to find and keep the clients who will make your practice a greater success.
The "Gateways" seminar is approved for 13 hours of professional responsibility (ethics) credit. Illinois attorneys can satisfy their 4 hour ethics requirement AND put the additional 9 hours toward their remaining requirements.
Digital Dirt - How Your Online Activities Can Impact Your Career Prospects. This program examined the impact that on-line profiles can have on your job search and presented an insider's look at how employers use the internet in their hiring processes, what mistakes to avoid, and the positive ways that you can use the web to help you get a job. Speakers included Erica Peterson Connor, Esq., senior attorney recruiter at the Chicago office of Update Legal, a legal recruiting and placement firm; Tom Drugan, founder and managing director of Naymz.com, a company that offers services to help professionals put their best foot forward on the Web and Professor Leslie Ann Reis, director of The John Marshall Law School's Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law.
To register for a program, please visit the John Marshall Law School Events webpage at jmls.edu/events.
For more information on the rules and regulations for Illinois MCLE, please visit www.mcleboard.org
 The John Marshall Law School will advise the appropriate state bar or agency indicated below of the presentation of its program. The extension of CLE credit is subject to each state's approval. It is the responsibility of the individual to meet the requirements of each jurisdiction. The John Marshall Law School is an approved MCLE provider with the State Bars of California, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Wisconsin. The John Marshall Law School will assist with applications to Florida, Georgia, Rhode Island, and Texas, but attorneys must apply individually for credit for courses and submit payment directly to these states.
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