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Your Student Bar Association is reprising its annual Public Interest Auction to benefit students in public service jobs. The Auction is being held this Saturday March 8 at 6 PM in the Student Union Ballroom B. The event is one of SBA’s most highly-anticipated events, and this year’s event promises to be memorable!

Professors, students, local businesses and local attorneys have donated dozens of items including Rubber Ducks tickets, lunches with some of your favorite professors, and vacation packages. We are also fortunate enough to have received a football signed by Joe Haden, a basketball signed by the MAC Championship team, and a series of unbelievable paintings crafted by Jim Fussell of Marion Correctional. There will be a silent auction conducted throughout the evening and live auction conducted by a professional auctioneer!

Tickets are on sale through Friday in the law school for $10 per ticket and proceeds from the auctioned items go directly back to students in public interest jobs here at Akron Law. We look forward to seeing as many students as possible at this exciting event!

Join IPTLA and Bloomberg Law on Tuesday, March 11 at 5:15pm-6:15pm in room W-210 for a free training session on Bloomberg Law’s Intellectual Property Resources. Aside from providing a comprehensive review of their many IP resources, Bloomberg will also be providing the attendees with dinner! This is a great opportunity to learn how to use a wonderful resource, especially for writing a thesis for the LLM.

The event will follow Judge Michel’s Oldham Lecture, which concludes at 5:00pm.

An RSVP is not required, but IPTLA would like to send an approximate head count to Bloomberg to ensure that there is plenty of food for all. Send an email to Jessica Peplowski (jlp132@zips.uakron.edu) if you think that you will be attending the event.”

Moot Court Honor Society is excited to announce that our Spring Training Session will be held this Thursday, February 27th from 5:15pm – 6:15pm in W-206. Our featured speaker will be Akron Law’s own Professor Richard L. Aynes. Professor Aynes will give students valuable pointers for a successful oral argument. This will be a great training session for all those competing in the internal competition in April. As always, this training session is open to all Akron Law students but mandatory for MCHS members.

Any questions? Please email Loren Fekete at LDF13@zips.uakron.edu

Our next free Certificate of Qualification for Employment (CQE) clinic is Saturday, February 22! We’re very excited to be providing opportunities for ex-offenders in Summit County to take a step toward gaining employment and independence!

We are looking for students to volunteer from 12:15p-4:45p on Saturday, February 22. The clinic will be held at Open M, 941 Princeton St, Akron. The time you volunteer can be applied toward your graduation requirement as pro bono limited means hours.

There will be a volunteer training on Friday, February 21, 5-6:15p at the law school. The time you’re at training will count toward your pro bono limited means hours as well. 1Ls are welcome to attend this training and volunteer at the clinic!!

If you’re interested in volunteering or have any questions, please e-mail Lyndsey at LLL35@zips.uakron.edu. You can also learn more about the clinic at our website: http://www.uakron.edu/law/clinical/cqe-clinic.dot.