Author: nlr22

Half-Day Hangout: The bar exam

Stop in for soup and answers to your questions about the bar exam

Room L-134

Saturday, February 14, 2015

12:00 PM – 6:00 PM

With Nancy Reeves, Assistant Director of Academic Success Programs

Next Saturday will be the first Half-Day Hangout for bar exam preparation.  The primary purpose is to provide last minute assistance to the February examinees.  Feel free to drop in even if your bar exam is still in the distant future, if you have questions about the bar exam, or just happen to be hanging around the law school next Saturday afternoon and are in the mood for a bowl of soup.

What to expect

  • Soup & study break  (If you care about what kind of soup might be available, vote here)
  • Informal Q&A
  • Exam samples and/or simulations – Ohio essays, Multistate Practice Tests, Multistate Bar Exam (multiple choice)
  • Springboard Bar Exam Resource launch (Ultimately this will contain a bank of Ohio essays, MPT questions, practice multiple choice quizzes, links to important information, etc.)
  • Informal repeat of any of the series of Bar Preparation workshops offered this past month (Essay Structure, MPT Outline Process, MBE Strategies, State Essays:  Making up the Rules, and MPT Exam Simulation)
  • 100 day & 70 day study plans for the bar exam

Attention May 2015 Graduates

ATTENTION May 2015 GRADUATES
Are you taking the July Ohio Bar Exam?*
If yes, then here is your opportunity to begin to prepare.

Akron Law is offering a free workshop series called ESSENTIAL LEGAL CONCEPTS (ELC) to help prepare you for the upcoming July bar exam.  The workshop will focus on your understanding of the bar exam and provide you with essential skills needed to effectively study for the Ohio Bar exam.  Akron Law strongly encourages your enrollment in this workshop, although it is not designed to replace any bar exam preparation course you are taking, but rather to be a supplement.

The workshops will be held on the following days from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Law School (Room L-152):

Saturday, February 7 – Introduction to the Ohio Bar Exam

Saturday, February 14 – Focus on the Ohio Essay Exam

Saturday, February 21 – Focus on the Multistate Bar Exam

Saturday, February 28 – Focus on the Multistate Performance Test

*If you are a current student and not taking the Ohio bar, the course may not be catered to your specific bar exam, but you are still welcome to participate.

Registration:

To register, please contact Nancy Reeves at nlr22@uakron.edu or sign up here.  Please register even if you might have to miss one session.  You will still benefit from attending as many of the classes as possible.

QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions regarding the workshop in general, please contact Adjunct Professor Michael Walsh at walsh@uakron.edu.

Are you graduating in December?

December Graduates – you are invited to:

Dinner with Dean Wilson

Monday, October 20, 2014, from 5:30 – 6:30 PM in Room L-165

 

Agenda:

  • Food!
  • Brief remarks by Dean Wilson
  • Introduction to bar preparation support which is available to you between graduation and the bar exam
  • Information from Career Planning and Placement
  • Information about Akron Law Alumni
  • Q&A – what’s next?

Please RSVP here.  (Even if you are not able to attend, it would be helpful if you would check in and let me know the best way to contact you between graduation and the bar exam.)

Nancy L. Reeves
Assistant Director of Academic Success Programs

315  C. Blake McDowell Law Center
(330) 972-6809
nlr22@uakron.edu

February Bar Examinees – Important Reminders

Hotel Room Reservation.

This Friday (January 31) is the deadline to reserve a discounted hotel room for the bar exam as part of the University of Akron block at the Capitol Square Holiday Inn.

After Friday, the block of rooms will be released and the discount and/or rooms at that hotel may no longer be available.

Spaghetti Warehouse Dinner.

If you plan to participate in the dinner at the Spaghetti Warehouse on Tuesday of the bar exam (sponsored by the Law Alumni Association), please RSVP to Nancy Reeves, Assistant Directory of Academic Success Programs, at nlr22@uakron.edu

For more information about either of the above, please contact Nancy Reeves – nlr22@uakron.edu