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BLSA’s last General Body Meeting is Wednesday, November 9th from 12:15 – 1:00 p.m in Central Hower Room 305. Refreshments will be provided.
We will be collecting order for Black Lawyers Matter T-Shirts.
We will also be selling pre-sale tickets for the pre-Thanksgiving bash.
We will also be going over planning for next semester’s banquet and conferences.
We hope to see you soon.
Professor Tracy Thomas, Director of the Center for Constitutional Law at Akron, seeks to hire two research assistants beginning January 1, 2017. Each RA would be expected to work 5 hours per week onsite at the Western Reserve Archives in Cleveland (open Thurs., Fri., and Sat.). The work involves collecting and reviewing historical court and attorney documents about the Women’s Litigation Fund and its groundbreaking work on gender equality in education and employment in the 1970s. The position runs from early January until the end of April 2017 and pays a stipend of $1000 for the semester. If interested, please submit your resume and statement of interest to Professor Thomas at thomast@uakron.edu. Application considered on a rolling basis until the positions are filled.
On November 10th, come join the Corporate and Business Law Society and attorneys from Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease LLP as we talk abut corporate law and the importance of the filed in business. This event is open to business graduate students as well, so please feel free to join us.
If you plan to attend, RSVP through this survey and let us know what you’d like to eat. See you then!
The Expungement Clinic helps low-income Summit County residents seal the record of their criminal convictions. A sealed record enables many people better access to jobs, housing, and volunteer opportunities. Students will learn integral skills in the legal field including filing paperwork with the court, drafting motions, interviewing real clients, and communicating with clients both through the mail and over the phone. Students who are eligible for a legal intern certificate will have ample opportunities to appear in court and present an oral argument. A student commitment to the Expungement Clinic can be for as few or as many hours as the student pleases. We do ask that you commit to at least one of our upcoming Saturday Outreach Clinics so we know how many volunteers we will have at each clinic.
UPCOMING CLINICS:
Saturday November 12, 2016
Arlington Church of God
8:00am-12:00pm
All hours qualify as ProBono Limited Means. There will be a mandatory training session. We will schedule the training the week of November 7-11, once we receive feedback from volunteers. Please indicate your availability for training in the email. The training is approximately 30 minutes. Interested students or questions please RSVP to Professor Staab at hstaab@uakron.edu.
You can earn up to six credit hours studying in IRELAND and WALES for two or four weeks beginning in mid-May 2017 through the UMKC School of Law Study Abroad Program.
Please join Professor Dana Cole, UMKC’s Ireland Program Coordinator, and several University of Akron Law students who previously attended the program for one of two INFORMATION SESSIONS on Wednesday November 9, 2016 – one from 12:15 p.m. until 1:15 p.m. and the other from 5:15 p.m. until 6:15 p.m. Both sessions will be held in L-161.
Shepherd’s Pie (a traditional Irish meal) will be served at both sessions! To ensure we have enough food for everyone, please RSVP to Professor Dana Cole at dkc@uakron.edu by Monday November 7th. Be sure to note which session you plan to attend.
If you can’t make it to either session or if you’d like more information now about studying with Professor Cole and Irish and Welsh professors in Ireland and Wales, please contact Libby Johnson at johnsonea@umkc.edu or (816) 235-1584 or Professor Cole at dkc@uakron.edu or (937) 219-1759. You can also visit http://law.umkc.edu/academics/international-programs/ireland-study-abroad/.
Lets’ go to Ireland.