Category: General Announcements

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.

Law Association for Women Apparel Sale 

Our LAW apparel sale has started! Below is the order form. We will collect orders in person at the Women in Law Lunch  Panel and virtually. Orders can be sent virtually to Emily Towers using VENMO (Emily-towers-1) and EMAIL (ect25@uakron.edu). All orders should go to Emily Towers.

Please reach out to any LAW officer for any questions you may have. 

Law Association for Women is a registered student organization at 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.

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.

Gentithes’ teaching and research focuses on criminal procedure, constitutional law, legal theory and legal research and writing.

He joined the Akron faculty in 2019.

Previously, Gentithes was a visiting assistant professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law and an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He practiced as an assistant appellate defender in the Office of the State Appellate Defender, where he represented indigent clients in criminal appeals throughout Illinois. Gentithes was also a clerk on the Illinois Appellate Court, an assistant corporation counsel for the Chicago Law Department and a litigation associate for Kraus & Zucklewski LLP.

Gentithes earned an LLM degree in legal theory from New York University School of Law, his JD degree from DePaul University College of Law and his BA from Colgate University. He was born and raised in Warren, Ohio.

The Akron Press Club has not been able to hold traditional lunch programming during the current pandemic. Funds from these lunches go toward scholarships for journalism and public relations students. Please consider a donation to the Akron Press Club to fund scholarships. You can donate by following the link on the registration page for this event.

Speaker: Professor Mike Gentithes

Date: Noon, Wednesday, October 20

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

The event will be lived streamed in Room 141 at the School of Law