Month: November 2021

The Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America welcomes applications to its second annual Judicial Clerkship Opinion Writing Conference, to be held February 24-26, 2022. The conference is open to individuals who have accepted a 2022-2023 federal clerkship (district court or court of appeals) or a 2022-2023 state appellate court clerkship. The 2022 conference is currently planned to take place in person on our campus.

CSL will provide funding towards travel and accommodations.

Over the course of the conference, conferees will receive opinion writing instruction from some of our nation’s most distinguished members of the judiciary. They will also be guided through writing an appellate court opinion and will receive individual review and commentary on their work by our faculty, all judges or former judicial clerks themselves. Finally, each attendee will be eligible for the CSL Prize in Judicial Clerkship Opinion Writing.

The currently scheduled faculty for the event (subject to addition and change) includes the following:

Judge Kyle Duncan, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge Joseph Leeson, U.S. District Court for the E.D. Pennsylvania
Judge Paul Matey, Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge Edward Meyers, U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Judge Chad Readler, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge Eleni M. Roumel, United States Court of Federal Claims
Judge Lawrence VanDyke, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Conferees will be limited to twenty-five. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance until the limit of conferees is reached. Applications must be received no later than January 21, 2022. 

Details, including application information, can be found at the conference website:https://law.edu/academics/Conferences/judicial-writing/2022_Judicial_Clerkship_Opinion_Writing_Conference/index.html

Direct all questions about the conference to Professor A.G. Harmon, Faculty Director of Bench and Bar Programs, at harmon@law.edu.

Akron, OH – Legal Extern or Paid Legal Intern (Fall 2021) – Summit Legal Defender’s Office

AkronLawJobsNo. 12781 Overview: Seeking legal externs and paid legal interns for fall. 2L or 3L in good standing. 

How to Apply: Send resume, cover letter, and list of 3 references to Pat Millhoff, Intern Program Director, pmillhoff@legaldefenders.org.  In your cover letter, indicate if you seek an externship for credit or paid legal internship. 

**Note: students with legal intern certificate are encouraged to apply***

Deadline: ASAP

All faculty, staff, and students are invited to a reception with Corey Salsberg, Vice President and Global Head of IP Affairs, Novartis, on Tuesday, November 9th, at 4:30pm – 5:15pm in room 201.

Mr. Salberg is the keynote speaker at the IP & Technology Law Center’s annual meeting of the Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association.  Among other things, he will be talking about the role of innovation in fighting Covid-19. Novartis has played a key role in this battle, including helping to produce leading vaccines. 

If you’d like to attend the entire event at the Student Center from 5:30 – 7:30pm, the details are below. Registration is due by 5pm on Thursday the 4th (tomorrow).

Please join us on Tuesday, November 9th for the November CIPLA meeting co-hosted by The University of Akron IP & Technology Law Center! 

Location: Student Union 3rd Floor Ballroom and atrium/lobby
The University of Akron 
Jean Hower Taber Student Union 3rd Floor 
(note the change of venue at the University from prior years) 
303 Carroll Street
Akron, OH 44325

Agenda

Cocktail Reception (5:30–6:15 p.m.)

Dinner (6:15–7:30 p.m., 1.00 hr CLE credit will be applied for):
Keynote Speaker: Corey Salsberg, Vice President and Global Head of IP Affairs, Novartis  

The Importance of IP in the Life Sciences 

Never before have the attention and hopes of the world focused on life sciences innovation as in the last 18 months. The biopharma industry has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic with rapid innovation and widespread collaboration. While the pace, scope, and success of these efforts has been unprecedented, they were enabled by many decades of great science, investment, and earlier breakthroughs. In turn, intellectual property is the essential foundation that has made all this possible.

Corey Salsberg is Vice President and Global Head of IP Affairs for Novartis, one of the world’s leading biopharmaceutical innovators. He will speak about the importance of IP in the life sciences, and the many ways in which it enables innovation, investment, and collaboration to create new treatments and vaccines.

Mr. Salsberg, a graduate of Stanford Law School and Yale University, is a seasoned attorney with over 20 years of global experience. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the Federal Circuit Bar Association, and the not-for-profit legal aid society California Lawyers for the Arts.

He is one of the founders of the WIPO-World Economic Forum Inventors Assistance Program, which provides pro bono legal services to under-resourced inventors in developing countries; Pat-INFORMED, an online database of medicine-related patent information co-sponsored by WIPO and IFPMA; and the IP PACT, a groundbreaking set of public principles that sets forth the patient-centric approach to IP shared by its company signatories.   

A recognized thought leader, Mr. Salsberg has testified before the United States Senate, speaks regularly around the world, and frequently appears in media and on public webcasts and podcasts.

Dinner Entrée Options:

• Beef Short Rib with fingerling potatoes and Italian green beans

• Chicken Francese in a lemon white wine sauce with fingerling potatoes and Italian green beans

• Vegan quinoa stuffed yellow pepper in simple tomato sauce

Register here: https://cipla.wildapricot.org/event-4535913

Registration Fees:

Members: $30 for Dinner and CLE; Free for just CLE

Non-Members: $40 for just Dinner; $40 for just CLE; $80 for Dinner and CLE

Students: Free if registered by 5pm on Nov. 1, 2021; $15 per student thereafter

**Registration closes at 5 PM on Thursday, November 4th, 2021**