The Warren E. Burger Prize writing competition is designed to promote scholarship in the areas of legal excellence, civility, professionalism, and ethics in the American legal community, which as you know, are core values of the American Inns of Court. The submission deadline is July 1, 2015 and Inn membership is not a requirement.
Below is suggested promotional wording for you to use to encourage participation in the writing competition:
Call for Authors: American Inns of Court Warren E. Burger Prize
The American Inns of Court invites judges, lawyers, professors, students, scholars, and other authors to participate in its 2015 Warren E. Burger Prize. Authors should submit an original, unpublished, 10,000–20,000 word essay on a topic that addresses the issues of excellence in legal skills, civility, ethics, and professionalism. The winning essay will be published in the South Carolina Law Review and the author will receive a cash prize of $5,000. The submission deadline for the 2015 Warren E. Burger Prize is July 1, 2015. More information is available on the American Inns of Court website at www.innsofcourt.org/BurgerPrize.
Thank you in advance for your help. If you have any questions about promoting the Warren E. Burger Prize or need more information, please contact Cindy Dennis.
Month: May 2015
ABA offers free membership for law students
The American Bar Association now offers free membership to students enrolled at ABA-approved law schools. Included among the many benefits of membership are access to the ABA Job Board, opportunities to connect with established lawyers and learn about specialized areas of law, free monthly webinars on various career-related topics, and member-only discounts on items such as cell phone packages and rental cars.
Students can immediately join the ABA for free at www.americanbar.org/abalawstudents or by calling the Service Center at 800.285.2221. More details can be found here.
Summer use of Lexis Advance, WestlawNext, and Bloomberg Law
Lexis Advance: All Students – All Access – All Summer
Lexis offers law students unlimited use of Lexis Advance for any research purpose, educational or commercial/job related. No additional steps are necessary for summer access. You do not have to register for this access. Summer access is available from the date spring classes end through the date fall classes begin. Please contact our Lexis Account Representative, Jennifer Durkin, at jennifer.durkin@lexisnexis.com, if you have any questions.
WestlawNext – Summer Restrictions Apply
WestlawNext accounts will automatically remain active over the summer for a limited number of hours of research each month. Students can get full access over the summer if they have a valid educational need under one of the following provisions:
- Summer School
- School-Related Research Assignment
- Moot Court Research
- Law Review or Journal Research
- Working as a Professor’s Research Assistant
- Non-Profit Externship (receiving academic credit AND unpaid)
- Unpaid Internship/Externship (receiving academic credit AND unpaid)
If one of the above describes your summer activities, please apply to extend your full access at Westlaw’s Password Extension page. If you take no action, your account will remain active but limited in the number of hours for June and July. Please contact our West Academic Account Manager, Brooke Stokke, at brooke.stokke@thomsonreuters.com, if you have any questions.
Bloomberg Law – Unlimited Summer Access
Student Bloomberg Law accounts remain fully active over the summer for registered law students, including access for research conducted during summer employment. Students can use their Bloomberg Law accounts anywhere, anytime, and for any purpose. There are no academic use restrictions associated with law student Bloomberg Law accounts. Please contact our Bloomberg Law School Relationship Manager, Chris Bartkowski, at cbartkowski@bna.com, if you have any questions.
Speaker: Center for History of Psychology – Memory Research and Expert Witness/Consultant – Dr. Elizabeth Loftus
Attention Graduates: Class Gift
Attention Graduating Students! Congratulations, you’re in the final stretch. As you wind down your law school career, we sincerely hope you’ll consider donating to the Class Gift Fund in order to provide a helping hand to those students who will walk the halls of Akron Law after you’ve gone. If you’ve already done so, we thank you! Starting with your class and continuing into the future, the Class Gift will contribute to the Student Emergency Fund. The SAF will be available for students who have emergency financial needs outside of school which they cannot cover on their own. Students will not have to repay the SAF for the distribution, it is only there to help.
This is not your ordinary class gift. Paying forward to future generations of the Akron Law family will make us all stronger. You can still contribute to the Class Gift and Student Emergency Fund by following this link –> https://www.lawalum.uakron.edu/sslpage.aspx?pid=408.
Thank you in advance for you generosity, and the best of luck as you enter this exciting new chapter of your lives!
Dan Boyer (SBA President)
Michael Tipton (Student Director, Law Alumni Association Board)