Author: Adam Messner

Scholarship Opportunities – Stark Community Foundation

Please be advised that scholarship dollars are available for law students from Stark County, Ohio, through four
legal scholarship funds at Stark Community Foundation. The scholarship opportunities are as follows:

The Judge and Mrs. Robert D. Horowitz Legal Scholarship Fund – applicants must demonstrate a background ofpublic service through volunteer activities or work experience.

The Samuel Krugliak Legal Scholarship Fund – applicants must have a desire to pursue the practice of law in the Stark County region.

The Sanders J. Mestel Legal Scholarship Fund – applicant must be a third year law student with an interest in trial advocacy.

The Stark County Bar Association Scholarship Fund – applicant is likely to return to Stark County to practice law.

Applications are available on the Foundation’s website at www.starkcommunityfoundation.org. Each fund varies
by dollar award, number of awards per year and complexity of criteria for selection.

Ifyou need additional information, please contact Carol Hawk (chawk@starkcf.org) or call the Foundation office at
330-454-3426.

Zips to host UW-Green Bay Wednesday at the JAR

For the third-straight season, the University of Akron men’s basketball team will compete in the postseason as the Zips accepted a bid to participated in the 16-team College Basketball Invitational late on Sunday night. Akron (24-10) will play host to Green Bay (21-12) on Wednesday at Rhodes Arena at 7 p.m. ET. For ticket information, please call 1-888-99-AKRON.

Akron, which is enjoying its fifth-straight 20-win season, suffered an 81-75 overtime loss to Ohio in Saturday’s MAC Tournament championship game. Green Bay fell 62-53 to Detroit in the quarterfinal round of the Horizon League Tournament on March 5, and is participating in the CBI for the second-consecutive year. The Phoenix are 4-3 all-time versus the Zips, but the teams have not met since 1992 when the two schools were members of the Mid-Continent Conference.

Sunday’s announcement marks the first time in its Division I era (dating to the 1980-81 season) that Akron has appeared in a postseason tournament in three-straight seasons. The Zips competed in the 2008 National Invitation Tournament and the 2009 NCAA Tournament. This is also the fourth time in five seasons that UA has participated in the postseason, also being in the 2006 NIT field.

The CBI, in its third year of existence, features eight first-round games on Tuesday (March 16) and Wednesday (March 17). All quarterfinal contests will be played on Monday, March 22, with the semifinals to follow two days later. The final two teams will play a best-of-three championship series, with games on March 29 and 31 and April 2. Prior to the semifinals, the remaining teams will be re-seeded and the higher-seeded team will host two of the three championship series games.

For ticket information, please call 1-888-99-AKRON.

Cook/Rutledge Fellowship

The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Office of Minority and Multicultural Health, is announcing its summer 2010 Cook/Rutledge Fellowship. The fellowships are open to graduate students who are residents of New Jersey and who are now enrolled in a New Jersey university or college or attending an out of state university or college. Students must be enrolled in a school of medicine, law school or in a graduate Public Health Program. The Fellowship provides a stipend of $6,000 that is contingent upon availability of state funds. Students who have graduated or completed their programs before June can not apply. Fellows are expected to commit to and complete full-time, supervised ten to twelve week projects at the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services in Trenton. (Applicants may look at the Strategic Plan to Eliminate Health Disparities in New Jersey 2007
[www.state.nj.us/health/omh/plan/index.shtml] for project ideas.)

All 2010 Cook/Rutledge Fellowship application forms and attachments must be completed and returned by April 16, 2010. Incomplete applications will not be accepted. The application packet is available on the Department of Health and Senior Services, Office of Minority and Multicultural Health website at http://www.nj.gov/health/omh/index.shtml. Any questions may be directed to Jose A. Gonzalez at (609) 292-6962 or to jose.gonzalez@doh.state.nj.us.

In the past, the Department has benefited from a number of well-researched and thoughtfully developed fellowship projects. We look forward to continued quality work from selected fellows.

LEGAL CLINIC ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR PAID POSITIONS

The University of Akron School of Law Legal Clinic will have five to seven paid positions open for the summer and next year 2010. The paid positions are as Directors of our Inmate Assistance Programs and as staff members for the Appellate Review Office. All students are invited to apply, including first year students. Persons chosen for these positions will be paid $7.35 per hour up to 20 hours per week during the school year and 30 hours per week during the summer. Students must take credit courses during the summer to qualify for employment.

People interested in developing interviewing, research, and writing skills should apply. Our Clinic graduates use their skills in civil and criminal contexts as Public Defenders, County Prosecutors, Legal Aid lawyers, judicial law clerks, and civil practitioners. We have a 100% employment rate within six months of graduation.

A cover letter and resume must be submitted to Professor Carro no later than Friday, April 9, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. Please sign up for an interview time when you submit your application. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Professor Carro at 330-972-7751 or by e-mail, carro1@uakron.edu.