Category: General Announcements

 

If you are planning to take the Ohio Bar, your application to take the Bar Exam in July 2016 must be filed with the Ohio Supreme Court Bar Admissions Office BY April 1, 2016.  The Application may be found here.

Unless we have been in contact with you regarding your certificate, your Character Certificate can be picked up at the Circulation Desk of the Law Library.  You will need to bring a photo ID to pick it up.

If you submitted a new Amendment to Application, the amendment must be reviewed and a new Character Certificate must be prepared and signed.  We hope to have updated Character Certificates ready for pick up at the Law Library Circulation Desk by Friday, March 18.

If you need to update any Character/Fitness items, please complete the form found here and submit it to Mary Cooke in Room 332 of the Law Library right away.

If you have any questions, please email lawstudentservices@uakron.edu.  Thank you!

 

Columbus, OH – LSC Legislative Fellowship Program – Ohio Legislative Service Commission

AkronLawJobs No. 7190 Overview: The Ohio General Assembly, through the Ohio Legislative Service Commission (LSC), has sponsored a legislative fellowship program for over 50 years. They sponsor 23-24 paid 13 month legislative fellowship positions designed to provide college graduates with practical experience in the legislative process.

Duties: May be assigned to work with the majority or minority party caucus in either the House or the Senate with additional fellows being placed with the LSC research and fiscal staff. Fellows assigned to a caucus normally engage in research, constituent services, writing speeches and news releases, and related administrative work. Fellows that work directly with the LSC staff draft legislation, perform legal or fiscal research, monitor sessions of the General Assembly, and attend committee meetings. The fellowship program begins the first week in December of each year and continues through December 31 of the following year.

Qualifications:  Have a BS or BA. Questions? FAQs may be found HERE

How to apply:  Application form found HERE. Please print and MAIL with your Resume, Official sealed transcript(s) from each college or university attended (for more than one quarter or semester), Two (2) sealed letters of recommendations, and a two to four page typewritten personal statement.

Mail to:            Ohio Legislative Service Commission

Attn:  Fellowship Program Coordinators

Vern Riffe Center

77 South High Street, Ninth Floor

Columbus, OH  43215-6136

Deadline:  MUST BE POSTMARKED BY APRIL 1, 2016

The Akron Law Christians’ Fellowship invites you to Fellowship with other students and Akron Law Alumni through programs and relationships that promote friendships with one another.  The Fellowship seeks to engage students and faculty, in all its diversity, regardless of beliefs. Our purpose is to live our faith, promote community service, and have fun. Among other goals, the organization will provide a forum for the discussion of problems relating to Christianity and the law and encourage legal ethics.

Date:  Wednesday, March 9

Location:  Quaker Square Room 410 (on the same floor as the Legal Clinic)

Time: 3:30 pm- 4:30 pm

We hope you will be able to join us!

Just a reminder that if you are a 1L student who started in Fall 2015 or a 2L part-time law student, you must attend one of these Mandatory Advising sessions:

Date:  Wednesday, March 9

Session time:  12:15pm or 5:15pm (please come to one)

Location:  Quaker Square Ballroom B

If you have any questions, please email:  lawstudentservices@uakron.edu.

Thank you!

Are you a current law student interested in or curious about intellectual property (IP) law? If so, please email Prof. Vacca (vacca@uakron.edu) and let him know. Prof. Vacca is starting a distribution list to inform current students interested in IP about upcoming IP events at the law school, programs of interest at the local, regional, national, and international levels, internships and externships, and employment opportunities in IP.