BLSA will sponsor a golf outing at Mud Run Golf Course (2000 S. Hawkins Avenue in West Akron) on September 10, 2010, at 5 pm. Cost is $20 for 9 holes of golf; a golf cart, and food and drinks at the end of the match. Each participant will be paired randomly with a practicing attorney or a law student. The lowest COMBINED team score will win the Golf Tournament Prize. There will also be multiple individual competitions throughout the course where the winner will also receive a prize. To register, contact Jonathan McDonald via email: mcdonald.324@gmail.com.
Category: Student Organization Announcements
SBA – General Meetings – Sept. 9, 12:15 pm and 5:30 pm
SBA will hold its first general meetings of the year on Sept. 9 at 12:15 pm and 5:30 pm in W-206. All are welcome. Food will be provided.
ILS – General Meeting – Sept. 8, 12:15 pm
The first meeting of Fall 2010 for the International Law Society will be held on Sept. 8 at 12:15 pm in W-206. We plan to discuss upcoming events, speakers and our trip to the International Law Student Association conference in NYC this October! We will also hold an officer election at this meeting in order to fill the position of Vice President for the organization. Food will be provided, hope to see you there!
BLSA – General Meeting – Sept. 7, 5 pm
The Black Law Student Association will hold a General Interest Meeting on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. in W-210. Pizza Hut and Buffalo Wild Wings will be provided.
Membership Dues for BLSA are $35 – this includes membership to University of Akron BLSA and National BLSA.
IPTLA – Large Firm Lifestyle with Professor Bob Kahrl – 9/8/10, 5 pm
IPTLA will be holding a meeting on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 5:00pm in room W-210. The presenter will be Professor Bob Kahrl. Professor Kahrl will be speaking on Life in a Large Firm and How to Make it in a Large Firm Setting. Professor Kahrl currently teaches Complex Commercial Litigation and Patent Claim Construction. Professor Kahrl practiced law at Jones Day in Cleveland from September 1976 until Dec. 31, 2009, when he retired from the partnership. From 1991 to 2008 he served as practice leader of the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Area. During that period the IP Practice expanded from 45 lawyers in five domestic offices to 260 lawyers in thirteen domestic offices and ten overseas offices. He specialized in litigation of cases involving issues of technological complexity. The principal technologies in which he worked were in the fields of semiconductors, electronic systems, and medical devices. Cases in which his appearances have been a matter of public record include the largest patent-related litigation ever conducted before the International Trade Commission involving ten patents for various aspects of DRAM chips (In re Certain Dynamic Random Access Memories). All are welcome and encouraged to come. Food will be provided.