Category: General Announcements

Audio Case Files…be better prepared for class

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Listen to your assigned cases on your MP3 player or computer.

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Repost: Oct. 22 – National Pro Bono Week Fundraiser

On Friday, October 22, 2010 as part of National Pro Bono week, the School of Law will sponsor a fundraising event here at the Law School. The money raised will go to  Community Legal Aid. As you know, that organization services a multi-county area in Northeast Ohio, representing civil litigants who otherwise would not have access to counsel.

We will offer hamburgers and hotdogs beginning at 5 p.m. outside the School in the grassy and paved areas outside West Hall or in the lobby in the event of inclement weather. Cost will be $4.00 per plate.  We will also have a cornhole tournament pitting student teams against faculty teams at a cost of $5.00 per person. The winners will receive tokens of appreciation. Finally, there will be an inflatable game( a jousting pit) where students may attempt to best selected faculty members. Cost for that will be $5.00 per student per try.

We already have numerous members of the faculty, staff, and administration signed up to cook, play cornhole and/or joust with you. The faculty members are confident that they will prevail in both the jousting  and the cornhole tournament.

This is a worthy cause and will be promoted nationwide and locally.

Cinderella Story

Once again the faculty and progeny/spouses defeated the upstart first year students in an athletic contest. In what we hope will be an annual kickball event, the faculty team was victorious by a margin of 4-3. The team name for the first years was Vodka and Red Bull, which may account for their performance. This was a well planned event, organized by the SBA. The faculty especially appreciated the sportsmanship of the students who played with honor and style although without much ability!

There were some vague but consistent complaints about illegal acts by the faculty first baseman. As the faculty member with the most seniority, Professor Carro considered those whining complaints and rejected them.

Events like these are fun and valuable to the law school community. We hope that this can become a tradition and that in the future the students will be able to prevail (not) .

J. Dean Carro
Director, Legal Clinic
The University of Akron
330-972-7751

Ohio Bar Admissions Workshop

EVENT: 
Ohio Bar Admissions Workshop
PRESENTERS:     
Staff from Bar Admissions Office, The Supreme Court of Ohio                               
DATE:            
Monday, October 18, 2010
TIME:           
5:00 to 5:15 registration  (FREE cookies & bottle water will be served!)
5:15 to 6:25 presentation
LOCATION:       
Room 151
PURPOSE:         
If you are a first or second year law student, you are considering or definitely planning to sit for the Ohio bar exam, and you have NOT yet submitted your required preliminary bar application, then you should absolutely plan to attend this FREE workshop.   This program is open to all law students.
Topics addressed will include:
 ¨       The Ohio bar application process
¨       Character and Fitness (issues, problems, investigations)
¨       The level of scrutiny given to the bar applications
¨       Appropriate and thorough responses to the bar application questions
¨       DEADLINES!
 Consider the following Preliminary Bar Application DEADLINES for The Supreme Court of Ohio
 November 15:  By all SECOND YEAR FULL- and PART-TIME students  ($75 fee)
 January 15:       DROP DEAD DEADLINE for July bar exam takers ($200 late fee)
 August 15:        DROP DEAD DEADLINE for February bar exam takers ($200 late fee)
 
WARNING:   Waiting until the drop-dead dates to file an application places you at risk of not
getting to take the bar exam right after graduation.
QUESTIONS?    Please contact College Program Specialist Liz Sauders at Liz@uakron.edu
or Assistant Dean Thorpe at LThorpe@uakron.edu.