At the beginning of May, the MSL program sponsored our first-ever MSL Symposium: “STEM, Law, Business, and the MSL.” The goal of the symposium was to showcase the work of MSL students during their time in the program; some students presented their work in a walk-around poster session, and others presented in the more formal […]
Law School Events
An Act of Kindness
Northwestern Law has a long-standing commitment to public service and giving back to the community. Recently, MSL students took this commitment internally, when they hosted a random act of kindness! With the help of SBA and the MSL team, students provided Stan’s Donuts hot chocolate and coffee, as well as homemade baked goods for anyone […]
Fall 2018 Industry Associates Night
On November 2, the MSL program hosted its first Fall Industry Associates Night. As we have discussed in the past, Industry Associates Night is the program’s premier professional development and networking event. This year, we decided to give students a taste of Industry Associates Night earlier in the program so they have experience networking with […]
Nick Colvin on the City of Chicago’s Innovative Economic Initiatives
The DPELC-MSL Speaker Series kicked of this year’s program by focusing on the city we call home: Chicago. Nick Colvin, Senior Advisor and General Counsel for the Office of the City Treasurer, gave a presentation on the city’s current economic climate, the underlying issues it faces, and the forward-thinking initiatives that are hoping to address […]
New Legal Services for the New World
The Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurship Law Center and MSL program recently co-sponsored an event, featuring Harold Washington Professor Dan Rodriguez and CPEI Distinguished Fellow Mark Cohen. Dan Rodriguez and Mark Cohen discussed the evolving alternative models to providing and managing legal services, models which involve creative new initiatives of both lawyers and other professionals who work in the legal […]
Welcome to Law School!
This week, both residential and online MSL students embarked on their first week of classes. You might be wondering: how do STEM students acclimate to legal studies after undergraduate degrees and/or careers in the sciences? Well, each year, residential* MSL students participate in an intensive on-campus orientation (internally known as Orientation Maximus), which consists of […]
Legaltech Venture Day
On June 15, IE and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, in collaboration with the Law Schools Global League and Ontier, launched the first Global Legaltech Venture Day in Chicago.
Convocation 2018
Congratulations to the graduates of the Class of 2018! On Friday, May 10, the 4th graduating cohort of the MSL program walked across the stage of the Chicago Theater and joined the, roughly, 100 graduates of the program as MSL alumni. MSL Student (now Alumna) Lauryn Robinson gave a heartfelt speech about her time in […]