Month: May 2017

*Expungement Clinic Seeking Student Volunteers*

The Expungement Clinic helps low-income Summit County residents seal the record of their criminal convictions.  A sealed record enables many people better access to jobs, housing, and volunteer opportunities.  Students will learn integral skills in the legal field including record searches, reading court dockets, completing applications to file with the court, and interviewing real clients.

Please keep in mind we can only accept a limited amount of students for each clinic.

UPCOMING CLINIC:

Saturday May 20, 2017

8:00am- 12:00pm

AMHA Reach Opportunity Center

Akron, Ohio

All hours qualify as ProBono Limited Means.

There will be a mandatory training session.  We will schedule the training the week of May 15-19 once we receive feedback from volunteers.  Please indicate your availability for training in the email.  The training will last 45-60 minutes.  Interested students or questions please RSVP to Professor Heather Staab at hstaab@uakron.edu.

THANK YOU!

Moot Court Tryouts

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.

Akron Bar Association Legal Intern Position Available

Akron, OH – Legal Intern – Akron Bar Association

AkronLawJobs No. 8350 Overview: The Akron Bar Association Lawyer Referral and Information Service Program connects the public with pre-screened attorneys in the legal specialization needed to fill the needs of potential clients. The LRIS Intern role is to assist the LRIS Director by speaking directly with clients via the telephone, conducting intake interviews and recommending attorneys with the appropriate legal experience to resolve the clients’ legal needs. The Intern will also provide administrative assistant support to the LRIS Director as needed.

Duties: Answers the telephone and determines the nature of the client’s problem so as to make an appropriate referral; Maintains files of referral updates; Administration of end of the month reports; Confirms liability insurance coverage for all LRIS members; Researches online court dockets for unreported referred cases; The LRIS Law School Student Intern will work ten (10) hours per week. The Internship is for the Summer 2017 semester (June 5 – August 21) and the incumbent can be reappointed for subsequent semesters.

Qualifications: The ideal candidate has excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as the ability to deal with clients of all demeanors. Knowledge of the Windows operating environment, Microsoft Office, and general database usage is required.

How to apply:  Submit a resume and letter of interest detailing the skills and abilities that will help you succeed in this position. Application documents should be submitted electronically to C. Allen Nichols, Executive Director via email at callen@akronbar.org. No phone calls please. The position is available until filled, but applicants applying by May 15, 2017 will receive first consideration.

Deadline: June 4, 2017

Early Start Bar Study – Friday/Sunday

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 being adversely possessed by a motley crew of 1L students studing for finals (you know who you are!) )

The essay this week will be a Corporations essay (posted on the Springboard site).  If you skipped Corporations 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.

Post-Graduation Use of Bloomberg Law, Lexis and Westlaw

You still have access to these great databases for some time after graduation!

LexisNexis

  • Access: Spring graduates have access to Lexis Advance via their law school IDs through December 31, 2017. This ID also grants  access to the Graduate Home Page (detailed below).
  • LexisNexis Rewards Point Expiration: Spring graduates have until June 30, 2017 to redeem their LexisNexis Rewards points.  Redeem Points.
  • Graduate Home Page: In July, the spring graduates’ view of the Law School Home Page will switch from the current view to the graduate view. This new view will provide helpful information for your career and job search. It will also award you a graduation gift of your choice of several LexisNexis products.
  • Aspire Program:  Graduates conducting verifiable 501(c)(3) public interest work may sign up for the Lexis ASPIRE Program for extended access to some items.  Please contact our Lexis Account Representative, Jennifer Durkin, at jennifer.durkin@lexisnexis.com, if you have any questions.

Westlaw

You have access to Thomson Reuters products, including Westlaw and Practical Law, for six-months after graduation. Your “Grad Elite” access gives you 60-hours of usage on these products per-month to gain understanding and build confidence in your research skills. While you cannot use it in situations where you are billing a client, Thomson Reuters encourages you to use these tools to build your knowledge of the law and prepare for your bar exam.

In addition, you get access to job searching databases on Westlaw and TWEN for 18-months after graduation for 1-hour a month. Extend access by logging into www.lawschool.westlaw.com

If you have any questions, please contact the Account Manager, Samuel Berbano (samuel.berbano@thomsonreuters.com)

Bloomberg Law

Graduates automatically keep full access to Bloomberg Law through their individual account for six months following graduation.  Please contact our Bloomberg Law School Relationship Manager, Terry Stedman, tstedman@bna.com, if you have any questions.

Other databases: