Category: General Announcements

An Inside Look at In-house Counsel

Law school students are invited to attend a panel discussion:

An Inside Look at In-house Counsel

Overview:       Please join us for a panel discussion hosted by the Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, the world’s largest professional organization for in-house counsel.

The program will begin with a brief overview of the in-house counsel world, after which panel members will provide their perspectives of working in-house. An interactive question and answer period will follow. 

Date:               Thursday, October 21, 2021

Agenda:         4:50pm Virtual waiting room opens

5:00pm Program, Q+A

6:00pm Program ends

Panelists:       K. Vesna Mijic-Barisic (Moderator), Cleveland State University

Ed Blakemore, Rockwell Automation

Joseph Muha, Discount Drug Mart

Sangeeta Prakash, Macy’s, Inc.

Ray Stefanski, MetLife

Cost:               FREE to law students and invited guests.

REGISTER TODAY!

Advance registration is required for this virtual program*

Meeting Registration – Zoom

QUESTIONS? WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ACC NEO?

Contact ACC NEO’s Executive Director Betsy Keck at neoh@accglobal.com or 216.333.3008. For more information on ACC NEO, visit our chapter page at Northeast Ohio | Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)

*Upon registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing your unique login information. Please save it, as you’ll need it to access the Zoom meeting.

Phi Alpha Delta International Law Fraternity Presents – Our Mission & Vision

Mission
Phi Alpha Delta is the world’s preeminent law fraternity because of our dedication to service: service to the student, the school, the profession, and the community. It is through devotion to the ideals of compassion, courage, diversity, innovation, integrity, professionalism, and service that we better both our profession and our community. Through accepting our differences we become not just a law fraternity, but a family.

Vision
Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International strives to be the premier legal professional organization with a diverse membership that cultivates leaders and serves as a voice for the role of legal professionalism in our society.

Our Purpose
The purpose of this Fraternity shall be to form a strong bond uniting students and teachers of the law with members of the Bench and Bar in a fraternal fellowship designed to advance the ideals of liberty and equal justice under law; to stimulate excellence in scholarship; to inspire the virtues of compassion and courage; to foster integrity and professional competence; to promote the welfare of its members; and to encourage their moral, intellectual, and cultural advancement; so that each member may enjoy a lifetime of honorable professional and public service.”


“This student organization is a prospective reinstituted student organization of The University of Akron. Registration shall not be construed as approval, endorsement, or sponsorship by The University of Akron of the student organization’s publications, activities, purposes, actions, or positions.”

Click here to fill out interest form.
Contact: Jayla Williams
1L
jew127@uakron.edu

PRESS CLUB PRESENTS PROGRAM ON PRESS FREEDOM AND LITIGATION

University of Akron School of Law Professor Mike Gentithes will discuss “100 Years of Press Freedom: Where Free Press Litigation Leads, Society Follows” in a virtual Akron Press Club program at noon Wednesday, October 20, 2021.

He will talk about how defamation, prior restraint and censorship cases brought changes in law and to the broader society. He also may offer thoughts on how future free press litigation could perform a similar role.

To register for this free virtual event: Go to https://conta.cc/3AGclzE

For more info, go to https://www.akronpressclub.org/202109/press-club-presents-program-on-press-freedom-and-litigation