Category: General Announcements

The first MAX® scholarship drawing is coming up quickly on November 1!  Sign in/Register for MAX Online – your free, personal finance program specifically designed for law school students and take advantage of the many program activities throughout the school year. You can earn entries into their $330,000 annual scholarships (cumulative total for 1L, 2L, and 3L classes) by:

• Completing the MAX Lessons for your year in school (lessons are short – about 10-15 minutes each)
• Attending MAX online workshops/events
• Completing your class year survey

You earn one entry for every activity you complete. If you complete all eight lessons for your class year, your class year’s survey and any two workshops, you will receive ten (10) additional scholarship entries – a total of 21! All lessons/activities completed by October 31 will earn you entries in the November 1 drawing and the other two drawings this academic year.

If you win the November drawing, it does not eliminate your entries from the grand prize drawing in April.

I am confident you will find the MAX program valuable and would love to see YOU be a MAX® scholarship winner!

You’re invited to attend the Law Association for Women October Meeting on Thursday, November 5^th from 12:15-1:15 PM. We will be discussing upcoming events and getting to know more members.

Webex: http://bit.ly/LAW-11-5

Session number: 120 344 7194

Session password: ULaw

Please email Olivia Mullen at omm23@zips.uakron.edu if you would like to be added to our email list.

Save the date: November Panel Event on Thursday, November 19th

AkronLawJobs No. 11781: Diebold Nixdorf is a Fortune 600 company located in North Canton. Diebold Nixdorf offers world-leading banking solutions and retail technology systems that help banks, credit unions and retailers. This position will be fully remote and does not require office presence. Diebold Nixdorf is currently seeking an extern to work with Corporate Counsel on the team that oversees Data Privacy, Information Technology, Information Security, and Strategic Contracting. This semester we will have a number of data privacy research projects to be completed. In addition, this individual will have the ability to meet other in-house attorneys as well as gain insight into the Corporate Counsel’s position.  
How To Apply: To be considered, please email your resume to Dean O’Brien: ab139@uakron.edu.
Deadline: November 1, 2020

Dear University of Akron School of Law students and faculty,

On November 14-15, Carnegie Mellon University will be holding the “Swear Me in, Scotty!” mock trial invitational. The CMU Mock Trial program is currently looking for volunteer judges, and since the tournament is virtual this year, you can judge rounds without having to leave your house!

Mock trial is a competitive speech and debate activity where two teams each represent one side of a mock court case. Schools prepare witnesses and attorneys for direct and cross examinations. Volunteer judges preside over the round to rule on objections and score competitors based on their public speaking skills. Volunteer judges are critical for competitors to improve their case before the American Mock Trial Association’s official tournaments in the spring.

At “Swear Me in, Scotty!”, there will be two rounds each day–one in the morning and one in the afternoon–and training will be given to each judge before the invitational. No prior mock trial experience is necessary in order to judge.

If you are interested in judging for CMU’s invitational tournament, register to judge at this Google form. If you have any questions, please contact the Tournament Director, Cayden Codel, at cmumocktrial@gmail.com.

• The NEW MAX by AccessLex® app is now available for download in the iOS and Android app stores. Check it out for yourself and let me know what you think!
• The first MAX scholarship drawing of the academic year is right around the corner on November 1.   A digital scholarship poster is attached for you to share with your students.
• We’d like to give a big MAHALO (thank you) to University of Hawaii at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law’s Professor and Director of the Ulu Lehua Scholars Program, Troy Andrade, and Director of Law Student Financial Assistance, Heather Smith-Lee, who recently brought MAX into the Ulu Lehua Scholars Program 1L classroom with the webinar, Managing Your Money During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Ulu Lehua Scholars Program offers financial, academic, and moral support to underrepresented law students throughout their law school careers.