Month: May 2017

Our next free Certificate of Qualification for Employment (CQE) clinic is Saturday, May 20, 2017!  We’re very excited to be providing opportunities for ex-offenders in Summit County to take a step toward gaining employment and independence!

We are looking for students to volunteer from 8:15am-12:45pm on Saturday, May 20, 2017.  The clinic will be held at AMHA Reach Opportunity Center [390 W. Crosier St.,Akron, OH 44311] The time you volunteer can be applied toward your graduation requirement as pro bono limited means hours.

There will be a mandatory volunteer training on Friday, May 19, 2017 from 4:30-6:00pm for first timers. Location of the training will be announced the week of the clinic. The time you are at training will count towards your pro bono limited means hours as well. For those who have completed the training once before, you are more than welcome to attend the training for a refresher. However, you may not count the training towards your pro bono limited means hours again.

If you’re interested in volunteering or have any questions, please e-mail Brittany at bfw7@zips.uakron.edu. You can also learn more about the clinic at our website: http://www.uakron.edu/law/clinical/cqe-clinic.dot.

YOU MUST RSVP IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND THE CLINIC!!!

This year, the Moot Court Honor Society will be holding tryouts in the Spring instead of the Fall as we have done in the past. The tryouts will be held on Saturday, May 13th (after finals), beginning at 9 a.m. Those who wish to tryout are asked to prepare a seven-minute oral argument based on a short fact pattern. Students are also asked to submit a three-page section of the Law and Argument portion of their LARW II brief as a writing sample. To register for a time and to submit your writing sample, please email Sam Meadows at sam262@zips.uakron.edu.

If you are unable to attend the tryouts on May 13th, students can instead opt to participate in the Moot Court Internal Competition on April 22nd at the law school at 1 p.m. and have their argument recorded and used in lieu of attending the May 13th tryout. The Internal Competition is an intramural oral argument competition where contestants will have to write a ten-minute argument for both the petitioner and respondent and will only know which side they are arguing shortly before the rounds begin. There will also be a cash prize for the first and second place advocates. If you would like to participate in the Internal Competition and have your argument recorded, please email Jacob Nicholas at jpn24@zips.uakron.edu to register. You are still required to submit a three-page section of the Law and Argument portion of their LARW II brief as a writing sample to Sam Meadows at sam262@zips.uakron.edu.

Early Start Bar Study meets Friday @ 2 PM and Sunday @ 6:30 PM in Central Hower 307 (or across the hall in 312 if our room is occupied)

The essay this week will be a Payment Systems/Commercial Paper (posted on the Springboard site).  If you skipped Payment Systems in law school you will have to learn the material via a 3 hour lecture during bar prep.  Drop in Friday or Sunday and get a head start. That way you will be familiar with the language, concepts, and question structure before you encounter it during bar prep.

Anyone who wants to start writing bar essays is welcome to join – but this study group is particularly geared to people taking the bar exam in July 2017.

Questions?  Nancy Reeves nlr22@uakron.edu.