Category: General Announcements

As you finish your first year (PT- second year), it is time to make decisions about scheduling classes and law school activities.    The Office of Academic Success Programs is here to help.  Learn the inside scoop regarding:
• Courses required for graduation (it may surprise you);
• Balancing electives with bar courses;
• Substantial skills courses;
• The what (course) and when (to write it) of the GWR; and
• Hear what not to do from wizened and humbled upper-division students.

Thursday, March 24th
12:15 & 5:30
Rm 301 (library 3rd floor)

Questions: contact ASP Director Katherine Silver Kelly  ksk10@uakron.edu

All students are invited to attend this opportunity to meet and discuss the field of intellectual property law with the University of Akron Law School Intellectual Property Advisory Council. The Council is made up of members who are experts in the field from around the nation and around the world. It serves an important role in advancing the IP curriculum, as well as fostering relationships with businesses and law firms, assisting students with career planning issues, and matters related to program and resource development. Law firms, corporations, and government entities that are represented on the IP advisory council include: Sim & McBurney (Toronto, CAN) The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (Ohio) University of Akron (Ohio) Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (Virginia) Owen, Wickersham & Erickson (California) Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman (Tokyo, JAP) Sughrue Mion (Washington, DC) Emerson, Thomson & Bennett (Ohio) Arent, Fox, Kinter, Plotkin & Kahn (Washington, DC) Gilbey Delorey (Paris, FRA) U.S. District Court ? Northern District of Ohio (Ohio) Snell & Wilmer (Arizona) Wendy?s International (Ohio) Kim & Chang (Seoul, KOR) Dickstein Shapiro (Washington, DC) Merchant & Gould (Minnesota) Hoffmann Eitle (Munich, GER) Calfee, Halter & Griswold (Ohio) Marger Johnson & McColom (Oregon) Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner (Washington, DC) Hahn Loeser & Parks (Ohio) George Washington University Law School (Washington, DC) Open Invention Network (North Carolina) American Electric Power Company (Ohio) Ulmer & Berne (Ohio) Bridgestone Firestone Americas Holdings (Indiana & Ohio) National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation (Virginia) Sughrue Mion (Washington, DC) Foley & Lardner (Washington, DC) Parker Hannifin (Ohio) U.S. Court of Appeals ? Sixth Circuit (Ohio) For more information on the IP Advisory Council, please go to http://www.uakron.edu/law/ip/council/index.dot

Congratulations to the University of Akron trial teams! The teams reached the final round in each of their spring competitions. The advocates and competitions are listed below.

• Amanda Bunner, Marissa Pappas, and Nick McGroarty placed second at the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County (ATLAC, formerly Gourley) Mock Trial Competition in Pittsburgh, PA.  In the first round, the team competed against advocates from William and Mary Law School.  After scoring the highest amount of points of all of the teams advocating on behalf of the plaintiff, Bunner and Pappas competed against the team from Duquesne Law School in the final round.   The ATLAC tournament is a unique competition, which focuses on a personal injury suit and provides doctors and medical professional as expert witnesses.  The team was coached by John Rubis (’08) and Caryn Peterson (’07).

• Tim Cunning and Daniel Leister placed second at the National Tournament of Champions (NTC) Regional Championship in Louisville, Kentucky. Their team lost a split decision to the eventual winner, Chase College of Law. Congratulations should also be extended to the team of JJ Hammerle and Beatriz Trejo who advanced to the semifinal round of the competition. Thirty teams competed in the NTC regional competition. The team was coached by Brian Dodez (‘09) and John Conley (‘08).

• Daniel Bray, Kevin Kita, Matthew Mohr and Greg Thompson placed second at the American Association of Justice Competition in Pittsburgh, PA. Their team lost a close decision in the final round to a team from Duquesne Law School. The team of Jared Zuercher, Ann Marie Sutter, Carol Tran and Kelsey DiFrancesco lost in the semifinal round to Duquesne, the winner of the competition. The team was coached by Larry Sutter (‘89) and Ryan Melewski (‘09).