Please join us for a brief meeting on April 5 at 12:30 in W-214 if you are interested in running and being involved as an officer of the International Law Society for the upcoming year 2011-2012. Food will be provided.
Author: Adam Messner
ATTENTION STUDENTS: Last Week for Barrister’s Ball Ticket Sales
Tickets are on sale in the cafeteria from 11am to 2pm and 3pm to 6:00pm this Monday through Friday. This is the LAST week to purchase your tickets so do not delay!
Tickets are $35 per ticket. Pay by cash, credit card, or personal check.
Remember there are no at-the-door ticket sales this year! Tickets MUST be purchased in advance.
Scholarship Opportunity – Donovan Memorial Scholarship – DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 18
ATTN: Female Law Students
Applications are now being accepted for the 2011-2012 Robert E. Donovan Memorial Scholarship. (APPLICATION AVAILABLE HERE!)
Robert Donovan died in a plane crash over Bosnia on April 3, 1996. The plane crash killed the U.S. commerce secretary and 33 other leaders who were on a trade mission to help rebuild the war-ravaged country once called Yugoslavia. Robert’s daughter, Kara Donovan, was in her final semester at The University of Akron School of Law at the time of her father’s death.
Academic merit and financial need will be considered by the Donovan Scholarship Committee.
DEADLINE: Monday, April 18, 2011
Trial Team Informational Meeting – March 24 – 12:15 and 5:30 pm – W-209
Interested in Trial Team? Did you know Akron Law has one of the top ten trial advocacy programs in the country? Come find out how to be apart of the award winning team. We will be providing general information about what trial team is. If you want to know what we do, what we learn, what’s in for you, what’s the time commitment, and so much more come to West Hall 209 on Thursday, March 24th, at 12:15 or 5:30. Can’t come but are interested? email as71@zips.uakron.edu.
Scholarship Opportunity – Ohio Women’s Bar Foundation
The Ohio Women’s Bar Foundation (OWBF) will be granting a scholarship in the amount of$I,OOO to one law student for the 20 11-12 school year. The deadline for submission is March 31,2011 and the scholarship will be presented to the winner at Ohio Women’s Bar Association Annual function in May in Columbus, Ohio. Date: TBA
For an application form, please e-mail Adam Messner at apm@uakron.edu.
The OWBF and the OWBA work closely together. Formed in 2008, the Ohio Women’s Bar Foundation mission is to research, analyze, compile, publish and distribute educational materials to enable women attomeys and those interested in encouraging women attorneys to become more proficient in their profession with the assistance of their local and national woman’s bar associations. The OWBA is a 501 (c) (3).
The Ohio Women’s Bar Association (OWBA) was formed in 1991 in order to build a community oflawyers who are interested in the issues that uniquely affect women. The OWBA will be celebrating its 20th year. The mission of the OWBA is to promote the leadership, advancement and interests ofwomcll attorneys through professional education, networking and the exchange of ideas between our members, local bar associations, business and the community.
This includes:
- Fostering communications and networking among women attorneys.
- Promoting and advancing professional opportunities for women attorneys.
- Promoting the appointment and selection of women to various federal, state and local positions of influence.
- Promoting women as leaders.
- Promoting and providing continuing legal education targeting areas ofpmiicular interest to women attorneys.
- Monitoring and supporting government legislation, policies. and practices affecting women.
- Serving as a statewide resource representing perspectives of women in the legal profession.