The Black Law Students Association will be selling tickets for their annual banquet Tuesday, April 1, 2014, from 1-5pm in the law school cafeteria. The banquet will be held Saturday April 5, 2014, at 6:30pm at The Quaker Square Inn. The Speaker will be The Honorable Judge Jessica Price Smith. Tickets may be purchased for $35 for students and $50 for non-students.
Month: March 2014
New Course Opportunities and New Faculty for Fall 2014
The Fall 2014 course offerings include three new courses, two of them offered by our two extraordinary new faculty members, the third by an alum with deep practice experience in the field:
Entrepreneurship – Professor Patrick Gaughan will offer this interdisciplinary course designed to prepare you to serve entrepreneurial business clients and venture capital supported firms. This training can get you in on the ground floor of the start-up businesses so vital to economic growth. Think Amazon, Google, Apple, and so many others that began in someone’s garage. Those businesses will need you.
Professor Gaughan, is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Innovation Practice Center at the University of Akron. The IPC is part of the major Presidential Achieving Distinction initiative aimed at enhancing the stature of the University of Akron and the economy of this region. Prof. Gaughan has successfully obtained private equity investment in both high-tech and traditional investments.
2. Cyberlaw – Cyberlaw returns to the curriculum with the arrival of Prof. Jacqueline Lipton as the new Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law and Technology. The course will address a wide range of the legal issues posed by continuing developments in cyberspace, including jurisdiction, freedom of expression, trademark, copyright, and associated intellectual property issues, privacy and defamation, and Internet governance.
Prof. Lipton joins us from the University of Houston Law Center, where she was the Baker Botts Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law. Before that, she served as Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
3. Advertising Law – Adjunct Professor Adam Ekonomon will offer this two-credit course surveying the full range of a subject important to any business that wants to sell its products. An Akron alum, Professor Ekonomon is Director of Marketing, Advertising and Regulatory Law and Assistant General Counsel at The J.M. Smucker Company. With experience like Smuckers, the course has to be good!
What is Cyberlaw?
Have you ever wondered “What is Cyberlaw?” Take this course from Jacqueline D. Lipton this fall. Professor Lipton has described this course as follows:
The cyberlaw course examines ways in which the unprecedented rise of global digital communications has impacted various areas of law and the extent to which this necessitates an acknowledgment of a new “field” of law that may be termed cyberlaw, cyberspace law, internet law, or digital information law. And, if so, what that field may comprise. The course will focus on the impact of the internet and other digital technologies on legal issues such as: jurisdiction; freedom of expression; trademark and copyright law, and associated intellectual property issues; privacy and defamation; and internet governance.
Are you interested in learning more about Insurance Law?
Are you interested in learning more about Insurance Law? This fall is your chance! Consider taking Insurance Law with Attorney Larry Tucker. The description for this course is:
Insurance is ubiquitous. It is the largest industry in the world. Anyone who owns a home, rents an apartment, drives a car, or goes to the doctor must deal with insurers and insurance. So too must anyone who gets old (Social Security and Medicare), is indigent (Medicaid), loses a job (unemployment), or is injured on the job (Workers Compensation). Insurance sculpts modern litigation, modern business planning, and modern personal living. Both plaintiff and defense attorneys need to understand liability and uninsured/underinsured motorist insurance. Corporate lawyers who do mergers and acquisitions work or who assist their clients in the management of risk cannot function without an understanding of insurance contracts interpretation, underwriting, and regulation. Attorneys who advise individual clients must understand the interaction of private and public insurance schemes that exist in the United States today. This is a course that should be of special interest to any student who is considering a career in civil litigation.
Akron Bar Minority Clerkship Program for summer 2014 – applications due Monday, March 31st by 5:00 PM!
Summer 2014 Minority Clerkship Program: A joint project of the Akron Bar Association Diversity Committee and The University of Akron School of Law
The Career Planning Office announces the 2014 Summer Minority Clerkship Program (the “Program”). All full-time first year (who have completed up to 29 credit hours) and part-time second-year (who have completed 23-44 credit hours) minority law students are eligible to apply to participate in the Program.
Initiated in 1990 by the Akron Bar Association, the Program has been very successful over the years. Now co-sponsored by the University of Akron School of Law, the Program is designed to provide real-world work experience for minority students in area law firms, corporations, government agencies, and courts. The ultimate goal is increased minority involvement in all aspects of the practice of law in the greater Akron community.
All full-time first year and part-time second year minority students in good academic standing are eligible to apply to participate in the Program. For your information, the Program timetable is below.
We encourage all eligible students to apply for participation in the Program. The Program will not only give you the opportunity to gain valuable legal experience, it will also afford you the ability to make informed decisions about your future by providing an insider’s view of what it is like to practice law.
Interested students can pick up an application in the Career Planning Office.
2014 MINORITY CLERKSHIP PROGRAM TIMETABLE
Monday, March 31, 2014 – Completed Program applications due to CPPO by 5:00 PM.
A Saturday in early April TBD- Program Interviews and Writing assignment – All students must participate in an interview with the Diversity Committee and must participate in a closed universe writing assignment (both on the same day).
End of April- Offers extended to those students accepted in to the Program and Diversity Committee to inform employers of their placement.
Applications are available in the CPPO or can be emailed to you. Email lawcareerplanning@uakron.edu to receive application materials.