Curriculum

A record 2,860 aspiring lawyers took the Illinois bar examination ion July, and 2,348 passed. The pass rate of 82.09 was a point higher than the previous year.

The pass rate for first-time test takers was 88 percent, an increase of about two points. Percentages of first-timers from Illinois law schools follow.

University of Chicago Law School: 76 out of 77, 98.7 percent.

Northwestern University School of Law: 130 out of 136, 95.59 percent.

Loyola University School of Law: 181 out of 197, 91.88 percent.

Chicago-Kent College of Law: 207 out of 229, 90.39 percent.

University of Illinois College of Law: 132 out of 147, 89.8 percent.

DePaul University College of Law: 254 out of 287, 88.5 percent.

Southern Illinois University School of Law: 76 out of 86, 88.37 percent.

John Marshall Law School: 208 out of 243, 85.6 percent.

Northern Illinois University College of Law: 75 out of 90, 83.33 percent.

Retired Chicago attorney Dolores K. Hanna, former trademarks counsel at Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, has been honored by the Chicago-Kent College of Law with an award in her name.

The Dolores K. Hanna Trademark Prize will be awarded at the end of the next three academic years to students in intellectual property of legal writing courses who write the best papers on trademarks or trademark law.

A Laureate of the ISBA Academy of Illinois Lawyers, Hanna is a past president of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois, the Women's Bar Foundation, the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, the International Trademark Association and Cook County Court Watchers.

A 12-month study of housing discrimination patterns against senior citizens has been initiated by The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center, funded by a $93,385 grant from the Retirement Research Foundation.

The study will examine a range of discriminatory housing practices among seniors in independent living, assisted living facilities and continuing care retirement Communities.

Participants also will try to determine why seniors do not seek legal help when they are victims of discrimination.

“Inherently, we know that housing discrimination occurs against seniors on the basis of race, national origin and disability,” said Prof. Michael Seng, co-director of the Fair Housing Legal Support Center. “Yet historically, seniors file few cases.”

Recent John Marshall law graduates Frank W. Young and Joe Frankus will assist the center's research.

A St. Louis University School of Law team won the 15th annual National Health Law Moot Court Competition finals on Nov. 11 at the Southern Illinois University School of Law.

SLU law students Brent A. Sumner and Heather P. McCollum defeated a Michigan State University College of Law team to earn a $1,000 scholarship from the American College of Legal Medicine. They also won a $500 scholarship for best legal brief.

A second SLU team, Katie Rose Fink and Catriona Nally, earned a $250 scholarship for runner-up best brief. Kristopher C. Piereth of The John Marshall Law School was rated best preliminary round oralist and will receive $250 from the SIU Center for Health Law and Policy.

Thirty-one teams from 21 law schools participated in the two-day competition, including John Marshall, the Chicago-Kent College of Law and Loyola University School of Law.

The fall issue of Jurist, a publication of the University of Illinois College of Law, credits 23 faculty members for being authors, co-authors or compilers of 38 books during the past year.

Among them is “The College Admini-stra-tor's Survival Guide” by Prof. C. K. Gun-sa---lus, former associate provost and university counsel. The following description is provided:

“With humor and generosity, Professor Gunsalus applies scenarios based on real-life cases, examples from negotiation, law, and child-rearing to guide … academic administrators through the dilemmas of management in not entirely manageable environments.”