Category: General Announcements

The Career Services Office is pleased to announce that a number of local attorneys will be available off campus at their offices to conduct mock interviews with our law students. Each mock interview will last approximately ½ hour and will generally consist of a 15-20 minute interview and a 10-15 minute feedback session. We encourage ALL law students to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to enhance their interviewing skills and network with local, practicing attorneys. As with any skill, practice and feedback are crucial to perfecting! PARTICIPATION IN THE MOCK INTERVIEW PROGRAM IS STRONGLY ADVISED FOR STUDENTS PLANNING TO PARTAKE IN SPRING ON-CAMPUS INTERVIEWS.

If you would like to sign up for a mock interview, please use the following link to view available dates and times, and to sign up for your mock interview: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508094dacae28a7fa7-akron5. If you have any questions about using the online sign-up sheet, please contact Alecia Bencze at (330-972-7876) or via email at anb77@uakron.edu. When you sign up for your interview, you must also email your resume to Alecia Bencze in the Career Services Office so that we may provide it in advance to the attorney who will be performing your mock interview.

THERE ARE A LIMITED NUMBER OF INTERVIEW SLOTS AVAILABLE AND ACCORDINGLY, ALL ARE FILLED ON A FIRST COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS. THANK YOU!

I am writing to remind you that the deadline for the 2020 TFAS Summer Law Fellowship in Washington, D.C. is coming up on February 5.

Hosted by The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) in partnership with the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, the TFAS Summer Law Fellowship is an intensive 9-week legal internship and academic program. The goal is aims to prepare future attorneys to defend the values and ideals of a free society rooted in individual liberty, limited government, free enterprise and constitutional originalism.  

Selected fellows will receive a full-tuition scholarship to attend the program and housing for the duration of the program. Awards are highly selective – only 25 students will be selected to participate.

Applications are due February 5, 2020.

Please share the announcement below with first and second year law students interested in gaining hands-on legal experience in Washington, D.C. while also engaging in today’s most salient issues in law and policy. Questions and student nominations may be directed to TFAS Law Program Director, Colin Parks, at Legal@TFAS.org or 202.986.0384. Thank you so much for your assistance.

TFAS Summer Law Fellowship Washington, DC  May 21 – July 24, 2020 TFAS.org/Law Application Deadline: February 5, 2020 Admissions Notifications: February 18, 2020

As you may know, our Partnership for Student Success with Barbri includes First and Second Year Diagnostic Exams (so-called “Baby Bar” exams). The Baby Bar diagnostic tests are designed to assess student strengths and weaknesses in particular subject areas and to give students experience taking an MBE-style multiple-choice exam. They are an important part of our program for preparing Akron Law students to succeed on the bar.

The Baby Bar diagnostics will be administered on the following dates in 2020.  Please note these dates and plan to take the exam on a date that is assigned to your cohort.

Spring 2018 and Spring 2019 starts:

• Saturday, January 25, 2020, 9 a.m. to noon.
• Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Summer/Fall 2018 and Summer/Fall 2019 starts:

• Saturday, September 5, 2020, 9 a.m. to noon
• Thursday, September 10, 2020, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

The diagnostics consist of 120 multiple-choice questions. Like on a real MBE exam, it is estimated that it will take you 1.5 minutes to complete each question. No preparation is required to take the Baby Bar exam – the diagnostics are designed to be taken without advance studying. After the exams are administered, each student will receive an individual diagnostic report that will show where you are doing well and where you might benefit from additional work. The school will also receive each student’s individual report as well as a cohort report. We will use this information to help determine what we teach and how we teach it.

In order to ensure the completeness and integrity of the diagnostic results, every student in one of the above cohorts is required to take the Baby Bar exam. You also are required to give your best effort while taking the exam – failure to do so would make the results less reliable and defeat the purposes of the diagnostic. For these reasons, failure to take the diagnostic or to put forth your best effort may result in referral to the student disciplinary committee.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or Dean Janoski-Haehlen.