Category: Student Services

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. 

 

IMPORTANT – 2012-13 Student Mailbox Assignments

Student Mailboxes, located in the Student Lounge, have been assigned for the 2012-13 Academic Year. The mailbox assignments have been posted in the Student Lounge, next to the Student Mailboxes (near the elevator).

Please check your mailboxes weekly as important information from all offices, including Student Services, Supreme Court of Ohio Bar Exam information and Career Planning and Placement, are placed in your mailboxes regularly.

Sounding Board

Dear Law Students:

Confidential Sounding Board: Professor Stephen Cook

We believe there is a need for someone to serve as a sounding board by providing another source of confidential, multi-faceted advice to all students. Professor Stephen Cook will be available to hear your concerns, whatever they may be, and to provide absolutely confidential advice, to all students, on a multitude of areas/issues.

Sounding Board areas/issues include: bar exam application assistance (what you must disclose and why), character and fitness issues (what issues you need to address in order to pass your character and fitness interview), dependency issues (alcohol/drug matters), ethical matters (situations that may put you at odds with the Honor Code), the unauthorized practice of law (what you can and cannot advise as a law student), peer problems (problems/situations with other students), stress (how to approach and deal with it), how to start you own practice (practical tips), life balance issues (how to balance health, family and relationships), mental health matters (common-sense advice on dealing with stress, self-image and non-clinical depression), or just a sounding board (someone to listen, or “bounce” something off of).

With very few exceptions, Professor Cook is not required to disclose any information involving a student meeting. All meetings are held in strictest confidence.

Starting Tuesday (8/28) and Thursday (8/30), Professor Cook will be available from 11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday during the Fall 2012 Semester for any interested students. To set up a meeting, email Prof. Cook at scook@uakron.edu, and he will arrange a time that is convenient for you. Part-time, evening students may also email Professor Cook and he will set up a time that is convenient to the evening schedule.  Professor Cook’s office is Room 232 above the Atrium. His home phone is 330-264-0425, cell 330-464-9106 and personal email avocat@bright.net if you need to reach him. Try school email first.

This Confidential Sounding Board represents a part of our continuing commitment to meet the varied needs of our students.

Best wishes,

Bill Jordan
Associate Dean and  C. Blake McDowell Professor of Law

Lauri S Thorpe
Assistant Dean of Admissions, Financial Aid and Student Affairs

Part-time students wishing to compete in the Law Review’s August Write-On Competition

The 2012 Write-On Competition for part-time students will begin Monday, 8/13/2012, at 8 AM.  Instructions for the Write-On Competition and a hypothetical will be available for you to pick up at that time on TWEN.  This competition is open only to those part-time students who completed their first-year program during this summer. You will have until Monday, 8/20/2012, at 8 AM to submit your response.  Late submissions will not be graded or considered for a position on the Law Review. 

 To participate in the Write-On Competition, you will need to have extended your Westlaw password for the summer session in order to have TWEN access.  To access the Write-On Competition course, you will need only to add a course to your TWEN page the same way in which you do for your regular classes.  This course is currently activated on TWEN should you wish to join now, but the competition’s hypothetical and instructions will not appear until Monday at 8 AM.  If you have not extended your Westlaw password for the summer, please email me at RyanDoringo@yahoo.com, and I can coordinate a way to email the instructions and the hypothetical to you on the day the Write-On Competition begins. 

Please remember that the Write-On Competition is open only to those law students who have attained at least a 2.6 cumulative grade point average and have completed at least the first-year program as defined by the administration of the School of Law.

Students wishing to join the Law Review who rank in the top fifteen (15) percent of their class after completing the first-year program will be automatically invited to join the Law Review.  As such, those students ranking in the top fifteen percent of their class are not required to compete in the Write-On Competition in order to receive an invitation.

If you have any questions regarding the Write-On Competition, please email me at RyanDoringo@yahoo.com. 

Thank you,

Ryan Doringo

Executive Editor, 2012-13 Akron Law Review