Month: May 2013

Students wishing to compete in the Law Review’s Write-On Competition,

The 2013 Write-On Competition will begin Friday, 5/17/13, at 8 AM.  Instructions for the Write-On Competition and a hypothetical will be available for you to download at that time on TWEN.  You will have until Friday, 5/31/13, at 12 AM to submit your response.  Late submissions will not be graded or considered for a position on the Law Review.

To participate in the Write-On Competition, you will need to have extended your Westlaw password for the summer session in order to have TWEN access.  To access the Write-On Competition course, you will need to add a course to your TWEN page the same way in which you do for your regular or ASP classes.  This course is not yet activated for registration but will be available for you to join by the time the Write-On begins at 8 AM.  If you have not extended your Westlaw password for the summer and if doing so is no longer possible, please email me at jrc130@zips.uakron.edu and I can coordinate a way to email the instructions and the hypothetical to you on the day the Write-On Competition begins.

Please remember that this Write-On Competition is open to all law students who have completed their first year program as defined by the administration of the School of Law.

Students wishing to join the Akron Law Review who rank in the top fifteen (15) percent of their class after completing the first-year program will be automatically invited to join the law review.  As such, those students ranking in the top fifteen percent of their class are not required to compete in the write-on competition to receive an invitation. However, since class rankings will not be released at the time of the write-on competition, we highly encourage all students who have previously ranked in the top fifteen percent of their class to still participate in the write-on competition since their class rank could drop after spring semester grades.

Note Regarding Part Time Students Completing Their First-Year Program this Summer: There will be a second write-on competition in August for those part-time students who complete their first-year program during the summer who are not yet eligible to compete in the first competition.  More information regarding this competition will be sent out in August.

If you have any questions regarding the Write-On Competition, please email me at jrc130@zips.uakron.edu.

Thank you,

Julianna Clark

Executive Editor of Student Writing, 2013-14 Akron Law Review

Westlaw has extended access for graduating students through November 2013!

May 2013 graduates must extend their passwords on the Westlaw law school home page by clicking on the “Need Westlaw this summer?” advertisement.   Graduating law students receive 60 hours of usage per month per platform (Westlaw Classic and WestlawNext) through November instead of just through July.

Questions?  Please contact Lynn Lenart at 330-972-6357 or llenart@uakron.edu.

Free Westlaw printing for The University of Akron law students, faculty and staff will end in May.  Westlaw is removing their printers from all law schools in the United States.  You can still print from Westlaw by sending your print jobs to the law school’s network printers or to your personal printer.

There are new features in WestlawNext that should help you transition from paper to a more ‘green’ digital world.  Electronic file sharing is common in law firms so developing good habits now as a law student helps in preparing you for the work world.

Folders
Use folders to save all your work and easily share with fellow Akron law students or faculty. Your folders are located in WestlawNext in the upper right corner.  Your saved material in the folders is automatically updated by Westlaw and always reflects current law.  There is no limit in the number of documents you can save in your folders.

History
If you forget to save your research in a folder, don’t worry.  Your research history is automatically saved for one year; including all document views and searches.  You can also search within your history or use filters to find specific documents.

If Westlaw is removing their printers, what about Lexis?
Lexis is still committed to supporting their law school printers.  You can still print from Lexis to the free Lexis printer.

Questions?  Please contact Lynn Lenart, llenart@uakron.edu, or call 330-972-6357.