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Records of the Corporate Counsel Institute

 Collection
Identifier: 17/17

  • Staff Only
  • No requestable containers

Scope and Contents

The records in this series fill six boxes and are comprised of correspondence, planning committee meeting minutes, speaker biographies and presentation outlines, financial statements and budgetary records, topic questionnaires, registrant lists, publicity, and published Institute proceedings. The records in this series range from 1962-1997, with the bulk dating from 1966-1971. There are very few records for the period 1971-1997.

The correspondence, arranged chronologically, is scattered over the period 1962-1991 and consists mainly of communications with Institute speakers, registrants, and guests; letters relating to the publication of speakers' papers; and inquiries about Institute programs and published proceedings. Other correspondence concerns program administration. There are also communications with the Illinois State Bar Association's Institute on Continuing Education, and with Institute exhibitors, and publicity providers. Three folders of minutes, 1967-1972, document the meetings of the Institute's planning committee. Annual reports of the Institute Director submitted to the planning committee, and lists of committee members, are included with the minutes. It should be noted that the published proceedings, which are produced from the papers delivered at the Institute, generally include footnoted references that were not included in the speaker presentation outlines distributed to registrants attending the Institute. Additional materials of interest include two folders of topic questionnaires, 1969-1970, which identify topics Institute registrants would like to see discussed at the next Institute.

Dates

  • 1962 - 1997
  • Other: Majority of material found within 1966 - 1971

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is stored off-site and requires two business days advance notice for retrieval. Please contact the McCormick Library at specialcollections@northwestern.edu or 847-491-3635 for more information or to schedule an appointment to view the collection.

Extent

6.00 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

The Corporate Counsel Institute has been held annually since 1962 by Northwestern University's School of Law. Its objective is to provide corporate counsels and private attorneys in corporate practice with a forum for expert analysis of legal issues of special interest and importance to those in the field of corporate law. The records range in date from 1962 to 1997, with the bulk dating to 1966-1971. The records fill six boxes and consist of correspondence, planning committee meeting minutes, speaker biographies and presentation outlines, financial statements and budgetary records, topic questionnaires, registrant lists, publicity, and published Institute proceedings.

Arrangement

The records of the Corporate Counsel Institute are organized into alphabetically-arranged topical folders. Topics include correspondence, financial statements and budgetary records, lists of registrants, planning committee meeting minutes, publicity, speaker presentation outlines, topic questionnaires, and (out of order at the end) published Institute proceedings.

Method of Acquisition

These records were transferred by the Northwestern University School of Law to the University Archives on May 10, 1998, as Accession no. 98-76. They are combined with Accession no. 97-28, transferred from the Law Library to the University Archives on March 17, 1997, and with records separated from Accession no. 98-70, transferred from the Law Library to the University Archives on May 5, 1998.

Separated Materials

One cubic foot of duplicates and extraneous materials was discarded.

Processing Information

April Ames, June, 1998.

Title
Guide to the Records of the Corporate Counsel Institute
Author
April Ames
Date
01/06/1998
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
und

Library Details

Part of the Northwestern University Archives Repository

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