Category: General Announcements

The Akron Match COVID-19 is a program to help match individuals who are high-risk for contracting COVID-19 to low-risk individuals that can assist the community. Akron COVID-19 Match was created at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to aid community members. Volunteers included many Akron Law students and had significant initial success. As the pandemic continued, volunteer retention, and client attraction declined.

Our group aims to attract new clients and volunteers, to contact and encourage current volunteers to continue their work, to find new marketing strategies, to plan for longevity, to provide vaccine resources, and to engage the Akron Law community.

At this time, we are searching both for volunteers and to take in new clients. For volunteers, we are looking for people to continue the work of running errands or helping those at-risk individuals in other ways, and we are also looking for potential Akron Law students to take over the program at the end of the semester and to continue carrying on this work in the community. Community service hours are available. If you or anyone you know could benefit from this program, please reach out.
 
Please visit our website, https://akronmatch.wixsite.com/mysite, for more information. A Facebook page will also be up and running soon.
 
If you have any interest in either volunteering or know a client in need, please feel free to contact us at our program’s email, akronmatch@gmail.com, or contact any of the following members for more information: Dominick Sawaya djs275@uakron.edu; Frank Wenner fdw3@uakron.edu; Briana Vamosi bev9@uakron.edu; or Kamryn Campbell kjc126@uakron.edu.

The Laura Bassi Scholarship, which awards a total of $8,000 thrice per annum, was established by Editing Press in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed. The scholarships are open to every discipline and the next round of funding will be awarded in April 2021:

     Spring 2021
     Application deadline: 31 March 2021
     Results: 25 April 2021

All currently enrolled master’s and doctoral candidates are eligible to apply, as are academics in the first five years of full-time employment. Applicants are required to submit a completed application form along with their CV through the application portal by the relevant deadline. Further details, previous winners, and the application portal can be found at: https://editing.press/bassi

The American College of Coverage Counsel is pleased to again sponsor its annual writing competition for students of insurance law. The competition, which is intended to measure the analytic and writing skills of law students studying insurance, comes with a cash prize and the opportunity to attend the ACCC’s Annual Meeting in Chicago in September 2021.

This year’s writing competition asks students to choose a client from the parties in a case involving claims of sexual harassment and abuse, as well as negligent hiring, training, and supervision practices. Students may submit a response as part of a team or as individuals. Submissions will be judged on the creativity of their proposed solutions and the quality of the writing and analysis.

Three winners will be selected by a panel of ACCC Fellows. The winners will received a cash prize and an invitation to attend the College’s Annual Meeting in Chicago, September 22-24, with a travel stipend. This will present a wonderful opportunity for these students to meet and network with some of the top insurance lawyers in the United States. Indeed, prior competition winners were third-year students who are now practicing at excellent coverage firms around the country.

The competition materials can be downloaded here

For additional information, please email Professor Patrick Gaughan.