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Volunteers Needed for Orientation

What makes Akron Law a great place? The students, faculty and staff that’s what! Help us to welcome our newest members of the Akron Law family by volunteering to make their first experience special! We are looking for volunteers to help us with the following Orientation activities:

Help with putting together the materials and details for Orientation (anytime during the day beginning Wednesday, August 16 – Wednesday, August 23).
Summer Trial Academy Shepherds, needed 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. on Friday, August 25, 2017.
Student mentors for our Fall 2017 Entering Class. As you may recall, this is a tremendous resource for our IL students.

If you are interested please contact Assistant Director Misty Franklin at misty@uakron.edu to sign up for one or more of these activities (and gain General Community Service Pro Bono hours).

Reminder: UA Going Tobacco/Smoke/Vapor Free on July 1!

Just a reminder that the University of Akron becomes smoke-free, vapor-free, and tobacco-free on July 1, 2017. Please see the prior blog post on this topic to see where you can use nicotine and tobacco products. If you have any questions, please contact Dean Fuller (until Friday) or Dean Oldfield.

Bar Exam: MBE Workshop

Thursday, June 29 – MBE Strategies and Tactics

L-325 – 1:00 and 6:00

(Food and casual conversation starting 30 minutes ahead of each session)

How to approach an MBE question: A compilation of strategies from for avoiding NCBE sneaky tricks, eliminating wrong answers, and choosing between the last two once you’ve eliminated the others. [Similar to the ALA course – with a different set of questions]

The workshop will also be available via WebEx

Sign up here so I know how much food to bring, and whether to email materials to you as a WebEx participant

Intended specifically for July 2017 examinees – but feel free to drop in if you want to get a head start, or just some practice on multiple choice questions.

ACLU Community Service Limited Means Opportunity July 18

Center for Alcohol Policy Essay Competition

The Center for Alcohol Policy is now accepting entries for its 10th Annual Essay Contest. This year’s topic is:

The Supreme Court has recognized “temperance” as a permissible goal of state alcohol regulation. Define temperance as it would apply in today’s alcohol marketplace. Is it still relevant today? Should temperance still be recognized as a permissible goal of alcohol regulation?

The deadline for entries is December 1, 2017. Cash prizes are available for the first ($5,000), second ($2,500) and third ($1,000) place winners.

For more information, visit http://www.centerforalcoholpolicy.org/essay or contact Michael Lashbrook at mikel@centerforalcoholpolicy.org.