Month: October 2020

• The NEW MAX by AccessLex® app is now available for download in the iOS and Android app stores. Check it out for yourself and let me know what you think!
• The first MAX scholarship drawing of the academic year is right around the corner on November 1.   A digital scholarship poster is attached for you to share with your students.
• We’d like to give a big MAHALO (thank you) to University of Hawaii at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law’s Professor and Director of the Ulu Lehua Scholars Program, Troy Andrade, and Director of Law Student Financial Assistance, Heather Smith-Lee, who recently brought MAX into the Ulu Lehua Scholars Program 1L classroom with the webinar, Managing Your Money During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Ulu Lehua Scholars Program offers financial, academic, and moral support to underrepresented law students throughout their law school careers.

Akron Alumnus, Ty Kendrick, will be speaking on the practicalities surrounding practicing patent prosecution and IP law generally. Ty is a former partner in the patent prosecution group of Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff, and has most recently started his own IP law firm, Kern Kendrick, LLC, in the central Ohio area. Ty will come prepared to speak on running an IP law practice, but hopes to engage in discussion with the attendees rather than merely a lecture. Please join us for this event at the following WebEx:

https://uakron.webex.com/uakron/k2/j.php?MTID=t4f92139e414144cc7acd172a61992412

Session number: 120 666 4934 

Session password: IPTLA

Battle of the Classes Challenge 2 is live! Submit a pic of you (or your pets/family) dressed up for Halloween! Get extra points for law-themed costumes!

Submit your costume here:https://forms.gle/5DXNfs6QGEbtcytBA

Also, Challenge 1: Pumpkin Carving Contest has been extended to Nov. 1st! Submit your pumpkins here: https://forms.gle/mEVtAw1MWv4VWxkA6

The first MAX® scholarship drawing is coming up quickly on November 1!  Sign in/Register for MAX Online – your free, personal finance program specifically designed for law school students and take advantage of the many program activities throughout the school year. You can earn entries into their $330,000 annual scholarships (cumulative total for 1L, 2L, and 3L classes) by:

• Completing the MAX Lessons for your year in school (lessons are short – about 10-15 minutes each)
• Attending MAX online workshops/events
• Completing your class year survey

You earn one entry for every activity you complete. If you complete all eight lessons for your class year, your class year’s survey and any two workshops, you will receive ten (10) additional scholarship entries – a total of 21! All lessons/activities completed by October 31 will earn you entries in the November 1 drawing and the other two drawings this academic year.

If you win the November drawing, it does not eliminate your entries from the grand prize drawing in April.

I am confident you will find the MAX program valuable and would love to see YOU be a MAX® scholarship winner!