Category: General Announcements

• 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.

The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers is pleased to announce the Annual Law Student Writing Competition 2020-2021, which is co-sponsored by the ABA Section of Labor & Employment Law.  It is our hope to stimulate interest in this important field of law by sponsoring a writing competition among law students on legal topics of interest to practitioners in the field.  Attached are the guidelines for the competition.  We would appreciate it if you would inform your students about this opportunity.  Notice has also been sent to the Dean of your law school, as all students, not only those currently taking labor and employment law courses, are eligible to participate.

Although a freestanding organization, the College was established in 1995 through an initiative of the Council of the Section of Labor and Employment Law of the American Bar Association.  The purpose of the College was to have an organization of senior lawyers, well regarded at the Bar, who would promote achievement and excellence in our area of practice.   As set forth in the College’s bylaws, Fellows must have been practicing labor and employment law for at least twenty years to be nominated and must be active and outstanding contributors to the labor and employment law bar.  

Law schools, scholars of labor and employment law, labor and employment law historians and students can benefit greatly from the intellectual and practical value available through the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.  The College’s primary mission includes supporting creative and thoughtful teaching of Labor and Employment Law, supporting and enhancing the existing curriculum, bringing depth of real life experience to law students through visiting professor and mentoring programs, and pushing the traditional boundaries to bring the current and dramatically changing legal environment into clearer focus.  We invite you to visit the Audiences section of our website (www.laborandemploymentcollege.org) and click on “Law Schools and Students.”

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.  Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

David Borgen 
President

The IPTLA, the Health Law Society, and the Federalist Society are co-hosting Professor Adam Mossoff, of George Mason University, and Dr. George Horvath, of Akron Law, on: Pandemics and Patents: Do Patents Help or Hinder Medical Innovation? Professor Mossoff and Dr. Horvath will discuss this topic in detail and Professor Hrdy, of Akron Law, will moderate with commentary. The discussion should be extraordinarily interesting and timely, given that disputes over patents on COVID vaccines are sure to arise soon. Please join us at the following WebEx to watch:

https://uakron.webex.com/uakron/k2/j.php?MTID=t7f8d08d8f227fb2ec8cf5f82bd4957e0

Session number: 120 624 5235 
Session password: Zippy2020 

Please join the Law Association for Women for a Discussion on the 19^th Amendment on Monday, October 19^th from 12:15-1:15 PM.

Professor Tracy Thomas will discuss the Amendment’s relevance and examine the women’s suffrage movement on the Amendment’s 100^th anniversary.

This event is open to all students, staff, and faculty!

To join please follow these instructions:

1. Go to https://uakron.webex.com/uakron/k2/j.php?MTID=td9f58e1b32d06ef6ed38e34e12795eb0 
2. Enter your name and email address (or registration ID). 
3. Enter the session password: ULAW 
4. Click “Join Now”. 
5. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen. 
To view in other time zones or languages, please click the link 
https://uakron.webex.com/uakron/k2/j.php?MTID=t1130c74f97968985c70703c2b5044a75 

If you have any questions please contact Morgan Foster at mmf57@zips.uakron.edu.

October 13: Ohio Supreme Court Judicial Candidates Forum

This one-hour virtual forum will be recorded live-to-tape on Friday, October 9, and made available for viewing and broadcast across the state beginning Tuesday, October 13 at 10:00am. Karen Kasler and Curtis Jackson are the moderators and all four candidates will be participating. Please check our website at ohiodebatecommission.org later this week or early next week when we will publish a “where to watch and listen” guide for how to view the forum. In addition, it will be available on our website for viewing beginning on October 13.

While Ohio Supreme Court races are not as high profile as the gubernatorial or U.S. Senate races, we recognize the Court plays an important role in evaluating constitutional questions and issues of significant public interest here in Ohio. In a poll we commissioned earlier this year with Baldwin Wallace, nearly three-quarters of Ohio voters surveyed indicated they thought it would be useful to listen to or watch a program with the state Supreme Court candidates. We hope you will consider making this information about the forum available to your membership so that they can view it during this election cycle.

In case you are not familiar with the Ohio Debate Commission, it was established in 2018 to organize and facilitate statewide debates and forums.  In 2018, the ODC hosted a gubernatorial debate and a U.S. Senate debate. At our website, you can read more about our work, see past programs, who supports us, and who is on our board.

October 19: The City Club of Cleveland Forum, Balance of Play: The Future of the Supreme Court of Ohio  (program listed here)

Normally, judicial races do not receive much attention from the media or the public. However, the high-profile confirmation hearings of U.S. Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanagh – and the impending nomination of a justice to replace the recently deceased Ruth Bader Ginsberg – have highlighted the critical role judges and the courts play in our democracy. The Ohio Supreme Court race is considered by many to be a crucial statewide race on the Ohio ballot. How will the election affect Ohioans and the outcome of the cases facing the Court next year, including the redrawing of legislative maps? What did we learn from the ODC event about the candidates and how they might decide cases?

Join us as three distinguished retired judges who served as an advisory panel to the Ohio Debate Commission – Justice Yvette McGee Brown, Justice Judith Lanzinger and Judge Ronald Adrine – analyze the ODC Ohio Supreme Court Judicial Candidates Forum and discuss the future of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

The livestream will be available beginning at 12:30 p.m. Have questions? Tweet them at @TheCityClub or send a text to 330.541.5794.