Category: General Announcements

Equal Pay Day 2021 – March 24, 2021

As part of Women’s History Month, LAW recognizes Equal Pay Day 2021.

Equal Pay Day denotes how far into the new year women must work to be paid what men were paid the previous year. Started by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996, the goal was to raise awareness about the gender wage gap. Since then, other Equal Pay Days have been added to the calendar to denote that mothers and most women of color face a wider-than-average gap and need to work even longer to catch up to men’s earnings.

2021 Equal Pay Days

  • Asian American and Pacific Islander Women’s Equal Day is March 9. Asian American and Pacific Islander women are paid 85 cents for every dollar paid to white men.
  • All Women’s Equal Pay Day is March 24. Women working full time and year round are paid 82 cents for every dollar paid to a man who works full time and year round.
  • Mother’s Equal Pay Day is June 4. Mothers are paid 70 cents for every dollar paid to fathers.
  • Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is August 3. Black women are paid 63 cents for every dollar paid to white men.
  • Native American Women’s Equal Pay Day is September 8. Native women are paid 60 cents for every dollar paid to white men.
  • Latina’s Equal Pay Day is October 21. Latinas are paid 55 cents for every dollar paid to white men.

For more information visit The American Association of University Women (AAUW) at https://www.aauw.org/resources/article/equal-pay-day-calendar/.

Law Student Practical Skills Writing Competition on Insurance Law Problem

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.

The Akron Match COVID-19

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.

Jones Day event for 1Ls!

The Law Class of 2023 is invited to join Jones Day lawyers for a virtual panel discussion on the best practices for interviewing and navigating firm recruiting, and how to have a successful 1L/2L summer.  This event will also provide students the opportunity to learn more about Jones Day and its practices.  The event is open to first-year law students.

We hope you’ll be able to participate.

EVENT DETAILS

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Date:                Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Time:               5:00 pm

A webex link will be sent prior to the event.

To attend, please RSVP to Dean O’Brien: ab139@uakron.edu no later than March 28th. Thank you!