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Congratulations to the University of Akron School of Law Trial Teams!

Trial team members Dan Bray, Daniel Leister, Anthony Wise and Michelle McBee won the AAJ regional tournament in Delaware this weekend. The team will compete at the AAJ national championship held in Las Vegas on March 24, 2012.

 The final round of the AAJ competition featured two Akron teams. The other Akron team advancing to the final round consisted of trial team members Kelsey DiFrancesco, Greg Thompson, Laci Mason, and Joseph Martinez.

 Both teams achieved perfect records before advancing to the final round. The teams defeated Yale and Cincinnati in the semifinal rounds.

 This is the third time in the last five years the finals were Akron v. Akron. Alumni Larry Sutter and Brian Dodez coach the teams. Congratulations to all!

The Akron Law Alumni Association Presents: A Career Conversation – Tuesday, February 28th at 12:15 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. Food will be served!

The Akron Law Alumni Association Presents: A Brown Bag Lunch Career Conversation 

This casual, “brown bag” lunch will take place Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 12:15 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. Food will be served, Jimmy John’s.

This event is intended to bring together students and practicing attorneys to allow law students to learn more about the profession. Topics will include different practice areas, what a typical day is like, effective networking techniques, and how to impress potential employers. The conversation during this event will be student driven–this is the time to ask those “off the record” questions!

The attorneys attending this event, who are serving or have served on the Akron Law Alumni Association (“LAA”) Board, are:

 Megan Frantz Oldham (’05), associate with Tzangas, Plakas, Mannos & Raies

Blake Gerney (’95), partner with Day Ketterer, Certified Specialist in Business, Commercial and Industrial Real Property Law

Norma Shaub (’87), LAA director

Tom Pitts (’79), partner with Stocker Pitts and past president of the LAA

Richard Williger (’82), sole practitioner

Walter Madison (’98), sole practitioner and current president of the LAA

The event will take place in the Intellectual Property/Miller-Becker Center in the law school.  Due to limited space, please RSVP to Katie Basch, Student Director of the Akron Law Alumni Association at krg15@zips.uakron.edu or Jeanne Kennedy at jeanne2@uakron.edu by Monday at 12 pm.

Attention Students: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR CO-EDS GO RED LUNCHEON – WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND AT 11:30 AM. Receive Community Service Hours for your Graduation Requirement!

Akron Law, along with the American Heart Association, will host a “Coeds Go Red” luncheon on Wednesday, Feb. 22 from 11:30 a.m. –  1 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom. At the event, a “heart-healthy” lunch will be served as information about the “Go Red for Women” movement is presented. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in drawings  for prizes including an $50 Barnes & Noble gift card (winners must be present). Also, the College of Nursing will offer free blood pressure screenings, BMI assessment and more. The lunch, which is open to all UA faculty, staff and students, is free of charge, however registration is required. Participants are encouraged to wear red to show support.

 

This event also affords a unique community service opportunity for Akron Law students to assist with registration, work at the luncheon table, and more.  In addition to the benefits noted above, students participating in the community service opportunity will receive two hours counting toward their general community service graduation requirement.

 

Students interested in volunteering should contact Molly Palmer (molly.palmer@heart.org or 330-664-1908).

The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland – Open Registration for Clinics – Pro Bono Limited Means Opportunities

We are all ready to start our clinics again and we need lots of law students!  We will be trying out a different form of registration.  I have attached a link to our website where you will complete information for online registration.  Once you submit that, we will confirm your attendance at the clinic with a follow up email in the coming weeks (or earlier if need be).  I have tried to list all of the clinics from Jan-March, and ask that you each only sign up for one of these clinics.  There is a clinic this Saturday, January 28th and we need about 10 law student volunteers.

Although the website allows you to sign up for more, you will not be confirmed for more than one.  You will also notice something called the “Brown Bag lunch” this is for attorneys with foreclosure cases and not open to students.  If we need more volunteers for any one date I will send out a follow up email.  Thank you all for your continued support of Legal Aid and I look forward to seeing you at the clinics!

 

The Saturday clinics begin at 9:45 am and we ask students to arrive at 9:30, as always we will have coffee and pastries.  The evening immigration clinic on 2/22 begins at 5 pm and we ask students to be here at 4:45, we will also have snacks at this clinic.

 

Here is the link to the page you will need to read for registration:

http://lasclev.org/volunteer/law-student-opportunities/
And here is a link to a description, with times, for all of the clinic opportunities:

 http://lasclev.org/category/events/

Trial Team in Need of Volunteers!

The trial team is looking for volunteers to act as witnesses for their practice trials on Saturday January 28th from 9-12 and/or 12-3 and Saturday February 4th from 9-12.  This is open to all students and is a great experience and an opportunity to find out if you are interested in trial team and to meet the coaches.

No prior preparation required.  If interested, please contact Jonathan Sauline (jws50@zips.uakron.edu).