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Are you the best class at Akron Law? Participate in our weekly challenges and attend events to earn points to put the other classes to shame. Stay tuned for the first challenge this week!

The first MAX® scholarship drawing is coming up quickly on November 1!  Sign in/Register for MAX Online – your free, personal finance program specifically designed for law school students and take advantage of the many program activities throughout the school year. You can earn entries into their $330,000 annual scholarships (cumulative total for 1L, 2L, and 3L classes) by:

• Completing the MAX Lessons for your year in school (lessons are short – about 10-15 minutes each)
• Attending MAX online workshops/events
• Completing your class year survey

You earn one entry for every activity you complete. If you complete all eight lessons for your class year, your class year’s survey and any two workshops, you will receive ten (10) additional scholarship entries – a total of 21! All lessons/activities completed by October 31 will earn you entries in the November 1 drawing and the other two drawings this academic year.

If you win the November drawing, it does not eliminate your entries from the grand prize drawing in April.

I am confident you will find the MAX program valuable and would love to see YOU be a MAX® scholarship winner!

Join SBA and IPTLA for a night of skele-fun and spook-tacular trivia on October 30th at 7pm via WebEx! Grab your study-buddies, friends, or family to create a team of 2-5 people to compete for bragging rights and some fun Akron-themed prizes! Faculty are welcome to participate as well! If you don’t have a team, no worries – we will pair you with a team! Register yourself or your team by October 26th at the survey below and we will send you the event link and instructions:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/53C5QF8

The IPTLA, the Health Law Society, and the Federalist Society are co-hosting Professor Adam Mossoff, of George Mason University, and Dr. George Horvath, of Akron Law, on: Pandemics and Patents: Do Patents Help or Hinder Medical Innovation? Professor Mossoff and Dr. Horvath will discuss this topic in detail and Professor Hrdy, of Akron Law, will moderate with commentary. The discussion should be extraordinarily interesting and timely, given that disputes over patents on COVID vaccines are sure to arise soon. Please join us at the following WebEx to watch:

https://uakron.webex.com/uakron/k2/j.php?MTID=t7f8d08d8f227fb2ec8cf5f82bd4957e0

Session number: 120 624 5235 
Session password: Zippy2020 

Deadline for Application to Register as a Candidate for Admission to the Practice of Law (Character and Fitness Application):

If you are in your second calendar year of law school, or are a two-year international student in your first year of law school, the deadline to submit a timely Application to Register as a Candidate for Admission to the Practice of Law (what the Bar Admissions Office commonly calls the Character and Fitness Application) is November 15, 2020. Information on this application can be found here: Application to Resister as a Candidate.

We will mail the Certificate of Dean and a Fingerprint Card to the address that you have on file with the University of Akron. We expect to mail those documents next week.

Application to Apply for the February 2021 or July 2021 Bar Exam:

If you plan to take the February 2021 Bar Exam, the deadline to submit a timely application is November 1, 2020. If you plan to take the July 2021 Bar Exam, the deadline to submit a timely application is April 1, 2021. Information on the application can be found here:  Application to take the Bar Exam.

For those taking the February 2021 Bar Exam, we will mail your Law School Character Certificate to the address that you have on file with the University of Akron. We expect to send those out the first week of October. We will send your Final Law School Certificate, including the Substance Abuse Certification (if we have a record showing that you’ve fulfilled that requirement), directly to the Bar Admissions Office after your degree is conferred in January 2021.

For those taking the July 2021 Bar Exam, we will provide further information as to how we will make your Law School Character Certificate available to you; however, we will send your Final Law School Certificate, including the Substance Abuse Certification (if we have a record showing that you’ve fulfilled that requirement), directly to the Bar Admissions Office after your degree is conferred in May 2021.

Please consult the Ohio Office of Bar Admissions website for additional information and a list of all deadlines: Ohio Office of Bar Admissions

MPRE:

Information about the Multi-State Professional Responsibility Exam, can be found here: MPRE

Other Jurisdictions:

      If you plan to take the bar exam in another jurisdiction, please consult the bar admissions website for that jurisdiction and forward me any forms that you need to have completed.