Author: Adam Messner

Scholarship Opportunity – Akron Bar Foundation

FINAL REMINDER!

The Akron Bar Foundation is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for scholarships for the 2011-2012 academic year. The Akron Bar Foundation provides scholarships to law students based on grade point average, affiliation with Summit County, history of community involvement, and financial need. Applications must be postmarked no later than Thursday, April 7, 2011. Late and/or incomplete applications will not be considered for an award. Qualified applicants will be contacted to arrange for an interview, which will take place at the end of April.

Guidelines and the application are available on the Akron Bar Association’s website at: http://www.akronbar.org/foundation/akronbarfoundation/scholarshipguidelines.page

Questions? Contact Jackie M. Forcina at (330) 253-5007 or jackief@akronbar.org .

ACJS/Akron Bar – Criminal Procedure – Getting Better – March 29, 3-6 pm, Akron Bar Association

WHERE:  Akron Bar Association Offices, 57 S. Broadway

WHEN:  Tuesday, March 29, 2:45 –6 p.m.

WHAT:  Professor Mark Godsey, Director of the University of Cincinnati Law School-based Ohio Innocence Project will be speaking about SB 77, Ohio’s best in the country Innocence Protection legislation and the work of the Innocence Project; Former OACDL President Ian Friedman will be speaking about Ohio’s new discovery rule; and finally, our own Professor Jane Moriarty will be speaking about how courts are responding to the National Academy of Sciences Report on Forensics. 

COST:  Free to Akron Law Students

Registration Form: Click here to download

For More Information: Contact Kassim Ahmed, Crystal Kenmuir, or Professor Koosed (mkoosed@uakron.edu)

Scholarship Opportunity – J. Andrew Fulker Memorial Scholarship

The Scholarship Committee of the Miami County Bar Association announces it is currently receiving applications for scholarship grants from the J. Andrew Fulker Memorial Scholarship Fund. The Fund was established, in cooperation with the Troy Foundation, as a lasting tribute to Troy Attorney J. Andrew Fulker who died in an auto accident in 1989.

Andy Fulker was a 1971 graduate of Troy High School. He received a Bachelor’s Degree from The Ohio State University in 1976 and his Juris Doctor degree from California Western School of Law in 1979. He was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1979 and became a partner in the Troy law firm of Faust, Harrelson, Fulker & McCarthy. He served as Assistant Municipal Prosecutor for the City of Troy from 1979 to 1982 and as counsel for the Miami County Planning and Zoning Boards from 1979 through 1981. He was a member of the Miami County, Ohio State, and American Bar Associations, the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys.

The scholarship fund is designed to assist deserving law students who are residents of Miami County. Recipients of J. Andrew Fulker Memorial Scholarship grants will be selected by the Scholarship Committee of the Miami County Bar Association. Grants will be used for law school tuition. To be eligible an applicant must be admitted for fulltime attendance at a college of law or law school in a program designed to lead to a Juris Doctor or similar law degree.

Applications for scholarships may be obtained from Jack L. Neuenschwander, Miami County Bar Association Scholarship Committee, 1455 Stockham Drive, Piqua, Ohio 45356, telephone 937-778-0269.

IPTLA – Q&A with IP Advisory Council – March 22, 12:15 – 1:15 pm, L-152

All students are invited to attend this opportunity to meet and discuss the field of intellectual property law with the University of Akron Law School Intellectual Property Advisory Council. The Council is made up of members who are experts in the field from around the nation and around the world. It serves an important role in advancing the IP curriculum, as well as fostering relationships with businesses and law firms, assisting students with career planning issues, and matters related to program and resource development. Law firms, corporations, and government entities that are represented on the IP advisory council include: Sim & McBurney (Toronto, CAN) The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (Ohio) University of Akron (Ohio) Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (Virginia) Owen, Wickersham & Erickson (California) Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman (Tokyo, JAP) Sughrue Mion (Washington, DC) Emerson, Thomson & Bennett (Ohio) Arent, Fox, Kinter, Plotkin & Kahn (Washington, DC) Gilbey Delorey (Paris, FRA) U.S. District Court ? Northern District of Ohio (Ohio) Snell & Wilmer (Arizona) Wendy?s International (Ohio) Kim & Chang (Seoul, KOR) Dickstein Shapiro (Washington, DC) Merchant & Gould (Minnesota) Hoffmann Eitle (Munich, GER) Calfee, Halter & Griswold (Ohio) Marger Johnson & McColom (Oregon) Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner (Washington, DC) Hahn Loeser & Parks (Ohio) George Washington University Law School (Washington, DC) Open Invention Network (North Carolina) American Electric Power Company (Ohio) Ulmer & Berne (Ohio) Bridgestone Firestone Americas Holdings (Indiana & Ohio) National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation (Virginia) Sughrue Mion (Washington, DC) Foley & Lardner (Washington, DC) Parker Hannifin (Ohio) U.S. Court of Appeals ? Sixth Circuit (Ohio) For more information on the IP Advisory Council, please go to http://www.uakron.edu/law/ip/council/index.dot

IPTLA – Open Forum with Paul Michel, Former CAFC Chief Judge – Mar. 23, 12-1, W-210

IPTLA will hold an open forum with Paul Michel, former CAFC Chief Judge on March 23 from 12-1 in W-210. All are welcome. Food will be provided!

Paul Michel was nominated to the Federal Circuit by President Ronald Reagan on December 19, 1987 to fill a seat vacated by Judge Phillip Benjamin Baldwin. The Senate confirmed Michel’s nomination on February 29, 1988, and he assumed the office on March 8, 1988. Judge Michel received a B.A. in 1963 from Williams College and a J.D. in 1966 from the University of Virginia. He was admitted to practice in Pennsylvania in 1967, in U.S. district court in 1968, in U.S. circuit court and before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1969. He was assistant district attorney in the Office of the Deputy District Attorney for Investigations in Philadelphia from 1966 to 1974, as well as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve from 1966 to 1972. From 1974 to 1975 he was the Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor, and from 1975 to 1976 was assistant counsel to the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He then became the deputy chief and Koreagate prosecutor for the Public Integrity Section of the United States Department of Justice from 1976 to 1978. He became the associate deputy U.S. attorney general in 1978, and in 1981 became counsel and administrative assistant to U.S. Senator Arlen Specter until his judicial appointment. He has also been adjunct faculty at the George Washington University Law School and John Marshall Law School since 1991.