Justice Birkett administers the "Pledge of Professionalism" to first-year NIU Law students

Justice Joseph E. Birkett, 2nd District Appellate Court, administered the "Pledge of Professionalism" to first-year law students at the Northern Illinois University College of Law on August 14.  The "Pledge," where students commit themselves to upholding the highest standards and ideals of the legal profession, is part of the professionalism orientation program organized and sponsored by the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism.