The Office of Academic Success will be offering two workshops this week: Taking Notes and Thinking Like a Lawyer. These events will be held in Room 301 (3rd floor of the Library) on 8/29 (5pm-6pm) and 8/30 (1:10 pm-2:10pm). Please join us for helpful tips on surviving your first semester in law school! To RSVP, please email Ms. Palmer-Schmitz at dpalmer1@uakron.edu.
Category: General Announcements
Sounding Board
Dear Law Students:
Confidential Sounding Board: Professor Stephen Cook
We believe there is a need for someone to serve as a sounding board by providing another source of confidential, multi-faceted advice to all students. Professor Stephen Cook will be available to hear your concerns, whatever they may be, and to provide absolutely confidential advice, to all students, on a multitude of areas/issues.
Sounding Board areas/issues include: bar exam application assistance (what you must disclose and why), character and fitness issues (what issues you need to address in order to pass your character and fitness interview), dependency issues (alcohol/drug matters), ethical matters (situations that may put you at odds with the Honor Code), the unauthorized practice of law (what you can and cannot advise as a law student), peer problems (problems/situations with other students), stress (how to approach and deal with it), how to start you own practice (practical tips), life balance issues (how to balance health, family and relationships), mental health matters (common-sense advice on dealing with stress, self-image and non-clinical depression), or just a sounding board (someone to listen, or “bounce” something off of).
With very few exceptions, Professor Cook is not required to disclose any information involving a student meeting. All meetings are held in strictest confidence.
Starting Tuesday (8/28) and Thursday (8/30), Professor Cook will be available from 11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday during the Fall 2012 Semester for any interested students. To set up a meeting, email Prof. Cook at scook@uakron.edu, and he will arrange a time that is convenient for you. Part-time, evening students may also email Professor Cook and he will set up a time that is convenient to the evening schedule. Professor Cook’s office is Room 232 above the Atrium. His home phone is 330-264-0425, cell 330-464-9106 and personal email avocat@bright.net if you need to reach him. Try school email first.
This Confidential Sounding Board represents a part of our continuing commitment to meet the varied needs of our students.
Best wishes,
Bill Jordan
Associate Dean and C. Blake McDowell Professor of Law
Lauri S Thorpe
Assistant Dean of Admissions, Financial Aid and Student Affairs
REMINDER . . . Akron Law Cedar Point Outing . . . September 1
REMINDER . . . Akron Law Cedar Point Outing . . . September 1
$30 tickets are still available for Akron Law students and their guests to join us at Cedar Point on September 1. More than 170 are registered to be there. This will be a great opportunity to get to know your fellow law students in addition to law alumni and law faculty!
$30 per adult
$20 for seniors (62 and older) and for children (3 and older and under 48” tall)
(price includes one-day park admission, picnic buffet lunch, early admission to the park, AND special one hour of Akron Law-only access to the Millennium Force Rollercoaster)
**Retail value for this package is $64.49**
Learn more and Register at:
GREAT NETWORKING . . . FREE TO YOU!
Listed below are upcoming fall events that Akron Law will be supporting as a sponsor and/or purchaser of a table. If you would like to attend, please respond to Sue Staats (staats@uakron.edu or 330.972.7246). These seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. It’s a great way to network courtesy of Akron Law!
Federal Bar Association’s State of the Court Luncheon
September 14, 2012
Location: Cleveland Renaissance Hotel (12 – 1:30 p.m.)
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UA’s Office of Multicultural Diversity Awards and Recognition Dinner
September 29, 2012
Location: UA Student Union Ballroom (reception – 5:30 p.m.; dinner – 6:30 p.m.)
Part-time students wishing to compete in the Law Review’s August Write-On Competition
The 2012 Write-On Competition for part-time students will begin Monday, 8/13/2012, at 8 AM. Instructions for the Write-On Competition and a hypothetical will be available for you to pick up at that time on TWEN. This competition is open only to those part-time students who completed their first-year program during this summer. You will have until Monday, 8/20/2012, at 8 AM to submit your response. Late submissions will not be graded or considered for a position on the Law Review.
To participate in the Write-On Competition, you will need to have extended your Westlaw password for the summer session in order to have TWEN access. To access the Write-On Competition course, you will need only to add a course to your TWEN page the same way in which you do for your regular classes. This course is currently activated on TWEN should you wish to join now, but the competition’s hypothetical and instructions will not appear until Monday at 8 AM. If you have not extended your Westlaw password for the summer, please email me at RyanDoringo@yahoo.com, and I can coordinate a way to email the instructions and the hypothetical to you on the day the Write-On Competition begins.
Please remember that the Write-On Competition is open only to those law students who have attained at least a 2.6 cumulative grade point average and have completed at least the first-year program as defined by the administration of the School of Law.
Students wishing to join the Law Review who rank in the top fifteen (15) percent of their class after completing the first-year program will be automatically invited to join the Law Review. As such, those students ranking in the top fifteen percent of their class are not required to compete in the Write-On Competition in order to receive an invitation.
If you have any questions regarding the Write-On Competition, please email me at RyanDoringo@yahoo.com.
Thank you,
Ryan Doringo
Executive Editor, 2012-13 Akron Law Review