Category: Bar Examination Information

TONIGHT – Ohio Bar Admission Workshop

REMINDER…Be sure to attend this FREE Workshop

PRESENTED BY:          Lee Ann Ward, Director of Bar Admissions, The Supreme Court of Ohio                        

DATE:                          TONIGHT, Thursday, October 18  

TIME:                           5:30 to 6:30 p.m.     

LOCATION:                 Room 151

PURPOSE:    If you are a first or second year law student, you are considering or definitely planning to sit for the Ohio bar exam, and you have NOT yet submitted your required preliminary bar application (“Application to Register as a Candidate” form), then you should absolutely plan to attend this FREE workshop.   This program is open to all law students.

 Topics addressed will include:

 ¨       The Ohio bar application process

¨       Character and Fitness (issues, problems, investigations)

¨       The level of scrutiny given to the bar applications

¨       Appropriate and thorough responses to the bar application questions

¨       DEADLINES!   See:  http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/AttySvcs/admissions/calendar.asp

WARNING:       Waiting until the drop-dead dates to file an application places you at risk of not getting to take the bar exam right after graduation.

QUESTIONS?    Please contact Assistant Dean Thorpe at LThorpe@uakron.edu.

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November 1st Deadline – February 2013 Ohio Bar Exam

Attention Students Graduating in December and/or Planning to Take The February 2013 Ohio Bar Examination:

The Deadline for the Supreme Court of Ohio Office of Admissions to receive your Application to Take the Bar Examination is November 1, 2012. 

A form required as part of the application packet is the Character Certificate, which must be processed by Law Student Services and signed by Assistant Dean Lauri Thorpe.

DO NOT DELAY!

Each form takes time to process.

Free February Bar Exam Workshop Series

All DECEMBER 2012 GRADUATES (and any past graduates)

Are you taking the February 2013 Bar Exam?*

Akron Law is offering a FREE workshop called ESSENTIAL LEGAL CONCEPTS (ELC) to help prepare you for the upcoming February bar exam. The workshop will focus on your understanding of the bar exam and provide you with essential skills needed to effectively study for specifically the Ohio Bar exam, but most information would be applicable bar exams for other states. Akron Law strongly encourages your enrollment in this workshop. However, this workshop is not designed to replace any bar exam preparation course you are taking, but rather to be a supplement.

The workshop will be held beginning on Tuesdays, beginning Tuesday, October 16 through Tuesday, November 20, 2012 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Room 215 (Oct. 16), then Room 301 thereafter.

Enrollment is on a first come, first serve basis and open to the first 30 current students to enroll. Any past students wishing to take the workshop are also welcome, but their request to enroll will be placed on a waiting list and considered only after current student enrollment has occurred. *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.

ENROLLMENT:To enroll, please contact Misty Franklin at misty@uakron.edu No later than October 12, 2012. Please provide Misty with your name, which state’s bar exam you are taking and when, and whether you are a current student. Please indicate that you wish to enroll in the Fall 2012 ELC course taught by Prof. Hightower.  All enrolled students will receive an e-mail from the instructor prior to the workshop. Should any student be placed on the waiting list, you will receive a confirmation of your enrollment after the enrollment deadline has passed.

 QUESTIONS?  If you have any questions regarding the workshop in general, please contact Akron Law Bar Exam Coordinator, Prof. Kani Harvey Hightower at khh1@uakron.edu.

FREE Ohio Bar Admissions Workshop

Be sure to attend!

PRESENTED BY:          Lee Ann Ward, Director of Bar Admissions, The Supreme Court of Ohio                        

DATE:                          Thursday, October 18   

        TIME:                           5:30 to 6:30 p.m.     

LOCATION:                 Room 151

PURPOSE:    If you are a first or second year law student, you are considering or definitely planning to sit for the Ohio bar exam, and you have NOT yet submitted your required preliminary bar application (“Application to Register as a Candidate” form), then you should absolutely plan to attend this FREE workshop.   This program is open to all law students.

 Topics addressed will include:

 ¨       The Ohio bar application process

¨       Character and Fitness (issues, problems, investigations)

¨       The level of scrutiny given to the bar applications

¨       Appropriate and thorough responses to the bar application questions

¨       DEADLINES!   See:  http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/AttySvcs/admissions/calendar.asp

WARNING:       Waiting until the drop-dead dates to file an application places you at risk of not getting to take the bar exam right after graduation.

QUESTIONS?    Please contact College Programs Specialist Liz Wascak at Liz@uakron.edu or Assistant Dean Thorpe at LThorpe@uakron.edu.

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IMPORTANT BAR EXAMINATION INFORMATION & UPCOMING DEADLINES

ATTENTION:   ALL 2nd YEAR FULL-TIME & PART-TIME STUDENTS

If you plan to take the Ohio Bar Exam and have not already done so, your Application to Register as a Candidate for Admission to the Practice of Law must be RECEIVED in the Office of Bar Admissions at the Supreme Court of Ohio by November 15.

 Please see http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/AttySvcs/admissions/calendar.asp  for calendar of deadlines.

 Also see http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/AttySvcs/admissions/admissionApps/default.asp  to access that application.

 Your required Ohio Bar Certificate of Dean (available on the application link above) must be submitted to Liz Wascak in the law school dean’s office for processing. When your  Certificate of Dean is returned, you will receive an official fingerprint card and instructions where to get fingerprinted.

 These forms take time to process, so please submit in a timely fashion.  Processing in our office and your submission to the bar (mailing time) need to be considered.

Do not delay!

 Questions?   Please feel free to contact Assistant Dean Lauri Thorpe at LThorpe@uakron.edu or Liz Wascak at liz@uakron.edu.

 

 Plan to take the bar in another state?

All State Bar Admission Offices

To get information about bar admission requirements or to apply for admission to the bar, contact the appropriate jurisdiction. Most jurisdictions have information available via their own websites found at http://www.ncbex.org/bar-admissions/offices.

 

Just like Ohio’s certificates, other state’s law school certificates must be submitted to the law school dean’s office, College Program Specialist / Law Registrar Liz Wascak for processing.