Category: Pro Bono / Community Service

The Summit County Juvenile Court Family Resource Center is looking for volunteer tutors to provide homework help in a one on one and small group setting. Tutoring sessions will occur on Wednesdays from 3:00-5:00pm at the Summit County Juvenile Court. Tutoring is scheduled to begin on Wednesday, September 28, 2016. The court prefers volunteers to commit to the entire semester. Please contact Jessica Heropulos at 330-379-3610 or jheropulos@cpcourt.summitoh.net if you are interested.

Akron Law Public Interest Law Program – Fall 2016 – Applications for the Fall 2016 Public Interest Law (PIL) Program are now being accepted. Students interested in applying for a Fall 2016 Public Interest Law award should begin thinking about and securing a public interest placement for their fall PIL work experience. The Public Interest Law Program supports and encourages those students who would like to gain experience in public interest areas. Recent local placements have included:
Community Legal Aid Services of Akron
City of Canton, Public Safety and Service Departments
Mahoning County Prosecutor
National Labor Relations Board
Ninth District Court of Appeals
Ohio Civil Rights Commission
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Stark County Public Defender’s Office
Summit County Prosecutor
University of Akron Legal Clinic/Appellate Review Office
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
If you think you would like to do this work, but have no idea how to line up a placement, please feel free to call upon Career Planning Assistant Dean, Alisa Benedict O’Brien or Professor Joann Sahl. The deadline to submit your application for fall 2016 funding is Monday, September 12 at 12:00 Noon. It is required that you will secure a placement in advance of submitting your application.
The application form is to be filled out by the student/applicant. The organization that will employ you as a volunteer law clerk and will provide supervision will need to confirm that in a letter on their letterhead/stationary. They will need to include your start date, end date, number of hours per week on average, supervisor’s name, and a sentence describing your anticipated duties. This letter also needs to be submitted by the application deadline of Monday, September 12, 2016 at 12:00 Noon.
Applications can be found here: http://www.uakron.edu/law/curriculum/extern-register.dot

The Expungement Clinic helps low-income Summit County residents seal the record of their criminal convictions. A sealed record enables many people better access to jobs, housing, and volunteer opportunities. Students will learn integral skills in the legal field including filing paperwork with the court, drafting motions, interviewing real clients, and communicating with clients both through the mail and over the phone. Students who are eligible for a legal intern certificate will have ample opportunities to appear in court and present an oral argument.

A student commitment to the Expungement Clinic can be for as few or as many hours as the student pleases. We do ask that you commit to at least one of our upcoming Saturday Outreach Clinics so we know how many volunteers we will have at each clinic.

UPCOMING CLINICS:
(1) Saturday September 10, 2016 (2) Saturday October 29, 2016 (3) Saturday November 12, 2016
8:00am-12:00pm 8:00am-12:00pm 8:00am-12:00pm

All hours qualify as Pro Bono Limited Means.

There will be a training session on Friday September 9 at 12:30pm in Room 410 Quaker Sqaure. If you are unable to attend the training, please indicate that in the email.
Interested students or questions please RSVP to Heather Staab at hstaab@uakron.edu.
THANK YOU!

The Expungement Clinic helps low-income Summit County residents seal the record of their criminal convictions. A sealed record enables many people better access to jobs, housing, and volunteer opportunities. Students will learn integral skills in the legal field including filing paperwork with the court, drafting motions, interviewing real clients, and communicating with clients both through the mail and over the phone. Students who are eligible for a legal intern certificate will have ample opportunities to appear in court and present an oral argument.

A student commitment to the Expungement Clinic can be for as few or as many hours as the student pleases. We do ask that you commit to at least one of our upcoming Saturday Outreach Clinics so we know how many volunteers we will have at each clinic.
UPCOMING CLINICS:
(1) Saturday September 10, 2016 (2) Saturday October 29, 2016 (3) Saturday November 12, 2016
8:00am-12:00pm 8:00am-12:00pm 8:00am-12:00pm

All hours qualify as ProBono Limited Means.

There will be a training session on Tuesday September 6 at 4:00pm. If you are unable to attend the training, please indicate that in the email. Interested students or questions please RSVP to Heather Staab at hstaab@uakron.edu.
THANK YOU!

The University of Akron Research Foundation (UARF) runs a very unique program called the I-Corps Sites program. It is a seven week customer discovery program to help tech (and non-tech) entrepreneurs find product market fit. We are currently able to accommodate university teams (National Science Foundation sponsored), community teams, and teams led by minorities and/or women. We are currently looking for enthusiastic, outgoing, and team-oriented law, business, engineering, and many other students to serve as team members to our participants. For law students, participation would count for general community service hours and if you are paired with a “limited means” company/team, then the hours would count for community service hours of limited means. We will be hosting an information session at the EX[L] Center in UA’s Bierce Library in the middle of campus on Friday, September 9, 2016 from 12-1pm. There will be food and drink provided for the information session. Interested individuals can either apply at www.uakron.edu/icorps by clicking on “Apply” and then filling out the application for “Student Entrepreneur,” attend the 9/9 information session, or contact Dan Hampu at dhampu@uakron.edu.