Month: March 2011

Cleveland Law Firm Seeks New Associate – Apply Today

Cleveland, OH – Associate Attorney – Thrasher, Dinsmore & Dolan, LPA

Symplicity Job No. 2325 – AV-rated law firm based in Geauga County and with a new office in downtown Cleveland seeks first year Associate Attorney.  Please be advised the law firm of Thrasher, Dinsmore & Dolan in Chardon, Ohio is currently seeking a 1st year Associate Attorney.  The applicant must be a graduating law student / 1st year Attorney seeking full-time employment.  General civil practice with concentration on civil litigation, business representation, and real estate.  Successful candidate must be highly motivated with a strong work ethic, communication skills, and research skills.  Please send resume in confidence to: Diane M. Moore, Office Administrator, 100 7th Avenue, Suite 150, Chardon, OH 44024-1079; or by e-mail to: dmoore@tddlaw.com.  Applicants should visit their website at www.tddlaw.com

Fall 2011 Class Schedule – Ignore It Until We Say Otherwise

To the Law School Student Body:

On Monday March 14, the university will make the fall schedule available for review  by students, although students will not be able to begin registering until March 25. We understood that the release date would be March 21, a week later, but the university needs to release the schedule for New Student Orientation Week, and it cannot withhold our part of the schedule.

For various reasons related to the university’s new campus-wide class scheduling system, the law school’s ultimate schedule is certain to differ from the schedule that will appear on Monday. We will advise you when the schedule has been finalized.

Accordingly, you should ignore the law school fall class schedule as posted by the university until we tell you otherwise.

Thanks, and have a great Spring Break!

Bill Jordan

Associate Dean and C. Blake McDowell Professor of Law

University of Akron School of Law

Bridgestone Seeks Legal Intern in IP Group – Submit Resume and Cover Letter to CPPO by March 25, 2011

Akron, OH – Legal Intern-Intellectual Property Group – Bridgestone Americas, Inc.

RESUME AND COVER LETTER ARE TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE CAREER PLANNING AND PLACEMENT OFFICE (jeanne2@uakron.edu) AND NOT DIRECT TO THE EMPLOYER.

2L Students – This position requires a law student with a background or class work in Intellectual Property.  Familiarity and/or experience dealing with trademarks, patents, copyrights, etc. as well as familiarity with manufacturing operations is a plus.  This position offers hands-on experience in IP with a full-service, in-house intellectual property group.  Strong written and oral communication skills and sensitivity to confidentiality issues is required.  Familiarity with Microsoft products is beneficial.  Deadline:  March 25, 2011.

ACJS/Akron Bar – Criminal Procedure – Getting Better – March 29, 3-6 pm, Akron Bar Association

WHERE:  Akron Bar Association Offices, 57 S. Broadway

WHEN:  Tuesday, March 29, 2:45 –6 p.m.

WHAT:  Professor Mark Godsey, Director of the University of Cincinnati Law School-based Ohio Innocence Project will be speaking about SB 77, Ohio’s best in the country Innocence Protection legislation and the work of the Innocence Project; Former OACDL President Ian Friedman will be speaking about Ohio’s new discovery rule; and finally, our own Professor Jane Moriarty will be speaking about how courts are responding to the National Academy of Sciences Report on Forensics. 

COST:  Free to Akron Law Students

Registration Form: Click here to download

For More Information: Contact Kassim Ahmed, Crystal Kenmuir, or Professor Koosed (mkoosed@uakron.edu)

ABA Litigation Section Announces Good Works Project

On Monday, February 21, 2011, the ABA Section of Litigation launched its Law Student Good Works Competition on the Section’s Facebook page. The Competition asks law students to create the Section’s next Good Works project.  It offers a Grand Prize of $10,000 seed money from the Section to implement the project, along with a $2,500 cash prize, a trip to Laguna Niguel and a year’s worth of mentorship by a Section leader and committee to be assigned to the project. 

 Proposals must be submitted in writing and via a YouTube video by April 27, 2011.  Want to know more?  View the Section’s Facebook Page by clicking here or the Section’s U-Tube Video by clicking here.