Category: General Announcements

SBA is hosting its annual public interest auction- this year featuring a TRIVIA NIGHT!  The event will be held on Friday, March 24, 2017 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the Portage Country Club, located at 240 North Portage Path, Akron, OH 44303.

Purchase your tickets and/or register a trivia team at: https://commerce.cashnet.com/LAWORG

This event raises funds for Akron Law’s public interest fellowship, which provides stipends to students working in public interest jobs that would not otherwise be paid.  If you wish to receive a stipend from the Public Interest fund, you must attend the auction or otherwise contribute to the event.

Show off your trivia knowledge with teams of up to six people, and engage in some friendly competition with your classmates, professors, and the Akron legal community! Questions will cover a large range of categories including entertainment, geography, sports, and even local trivia!

Between rounds of trivia, we will have several items up for live auction, and a silent auction will be accessible throughout the evening.  Items up for auction this year include a J.R. Smith autographed jersey and shirt, Lake Erie Monsters tickets, a round of golf for four at Shaker Heights Country Club, dinners with your favorite professors, and much more!

Tickets for the evening are $10 for students/guests of students and $20 for anyone else.  All are welcome to attend.  Registration for a trivia team of 6 people is an additional $20.  All proceeds from this event will go to the Akron Law Public Interest Fellowship Fund. Please direct any questions to Haley Martinelli at hkm8@zips.uakron.edu or ask your SBA Class Representatives.

SBA is hosting its annual public interest auction- this year featuring a TRIVIA NIGHT!  The event will be held on Friday, March 24, 2017 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the Portage Country Club, located at 240 North Portage Path, Akron, OH 44303.

Purchase your tickets and/or register a trivia team at: https://commerce.cashnet.com/LAWORG

This event raises funds for Akron Law’s public interest fellowship, which provides stipends to students working in public interest jobs that would not otherwise be paid.  If you wish to receive a stipend from the Public Interest fund, you must attend the auction or otherwise contribute to the event.

Show off your trivia knowledge with teams of up to six people, and engage in some friendly competition with your classmates, professors, and the Akron legal community! Questions will cover a large range of categories including entertainment, geography, sports, and even local trivia!

Between rounds of trivia, we will have several items up for live auction, and a silent auction will be accessible throughout the evening.  Items up for auction this year include a J.R. Smith autographed jersey and shirt, Lake Erie Monsters tickets, a round of golf for four at Shaker Heights Country Club, dinners with your favorite professors, and much more!

Tickets for the evening are $10 for students/guests of students and $20 for anyone else.  All are welcome to attend.  Registration for a trivia team of 6 people is an additional $20.  All proceeds from this event will go to the Akron Law Public Interest Fellowship Fund. Please direct any questions to Haley Martinelli at hkm8@zips.uakron.edu or ask your SBA Class Representatives.

The Judge John R. Brown Scholarship Foundation is accepting papers for the 24th annual Brown Award. Any law student at an ABA-accredited law school may submit two copies of a current legal writing (generally, a writing similar to a law-review article) to:

Foundation c/o Kenneth G. Engerrand

Brown Sims, P.C.

Tenth Floor

1177 West Loop South

Houston, TX 77027-9007

Students must submit a letter of recommendation from a faculty member or other legal professional in addition to the paper. The submission must be postmarked no later than August 18, 2017. There is no page limitation or restriction, except the writing must be on a legal subject. The awards are as follow: first place, $10,000; second place, $5,000; third place, $3,000, and two finalists will receive a $1,000 award each. The winning student wins an additional $5,000 to the scholarship fund at the student’s law school. For more information or for questions, please visit www.brownsims.com/about-brownsims/affiliations/judge-john-r-brown-award.

Akron Law’s nationally recognized mock trial team will be holding an informational meeting on Wednesday, March 22 at 5:15 pm in Rm. 160. We will be discussing try outs for the 2017-2018 team, which will be held Saturday, April 15 at 9 am. Our coaches will be available to answer any questions students may have about the program. If you’re at all interested in trying out, come see what trial team is all about! If you are unable to attend the meeting and would like information on try outs, please email Chelsie Palecek with questions. Cmp152@zips.uakron.edu