Trial Team Tryouts!! Saturday, April 11th

Tryouts for Akron’s Nationally Recognized Trial Team will be held Saturday April 11th at the law school, in the West Hall mock trial rooms. Our program is looking for the next class of competitors to continue the winning tradition!!!

Tryouts will begin Saturday morning at around 9 a.m. Each competitor will do approximately 5 minutes in each room of an open or close (your choice!). Each tryout will will generally last no longer than 10 minutes. The problem will be sent to each competitor two weeks prior to tryouts to prepare. Any trial team member can assist you in preparing an open or close.

Please email Rachel Smick (rls173@zips.uakron.edu), Trial Team Vice President, if you would like to try out!!

An information session will be held after classes return from spring break (we will send out another announcement shortly). In the meantime, feel free to email Rachel Smick with any questions or concerns & I will be happy to help!

Exam Accommodations

Students if you have registered with the Office of Accessibility to receive accommodations during the Spring 2015 semester and intend to use your approved accommodations during exams, you need to complete the Exam Accommodation Request Form located at: http://www.uakron.edu/dotAsset/0672fcb1-a49f-4cda-aeba-79a3f76f07f0.pdf and return it to Misty Franklin at misty@uakron.edu by April 10, 2015.  This form must be received in order to make the necessary arrangements for exams.

Help Professor Huhn celebrate his retirement!

On May 31st, 2015, Professor Huhn will retire after 31 years of teaching.  He is “stepping into retirement” by walking 25 miles through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park April 18-19 and will end his walk here at the law school the morning of April 20th – just in time to teach his last Con Law class.  Professor Huhn has pledged to donate $20 per mile he walks to the new Student Emergency Fund – the Class of 2015’s class gift.

In honor of Professor Huhn’s legacy and his dedication to public service and to encourage others to follow his example, Students Embracing a Legacy, a grassroots organization is developing a fundraiser designed around Professor Huhn’s walk.  They will be launching a crowd funding campaign on Start Some Good on April 1st (startsomegood.com/studentlegacy2015).

Donors will have the option of choosing whether they would like their funds to support the Student Emergency Fund or the Public Administration and Urban Studies Student Association Student Support Fund.  Information regarding both funds will be available on the Start Some Good site and the group’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/studentlegacy2015.

Please visit their Facebook page to discover how to join Professor Huhn on the walk and to support the students in the Public Administration and Urban Affairs college and the Student Emergency Fund.

You can also follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/StudentLegacy15

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Want to launch your internet company/app?

Want to launch your internet company/app?  Interested in investing in local startups?  Looking for ways to grow your online business?  Curious about the local tech scene?  The University of Akron School of Law is proud to host NEXTOhio, an Internet Startup Conference on Thursday, April 9th from 5:30-7:30 pm at Quaker Station, with a networking event to follow until 10:30 pm.  The event is completely free and open to the public, and will have free pizza and a cash bar.  The event will feature a series of rapid-fire talks about various aspects of starting an internet company (with legal being just one of many topics), as well as a pitch night where a local startup will win thousands of dollars.  For more information and to register, go to http://www.nextohio.com/

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Law and Leadership Institute Summer Positions! Deadline is March 22nd.

The Law and Leadership Institute – On-Campus interviews on April 9, 2015

The program, which includes both summer and academic year components, gives students from inner-city schools an intensive introduction to both law and college-level work. The goal is to prepare youth from underserved communities to compete at high academic levels through use of intense legal and educational programming as a tool for developing leadership skills and facilitating the pursuit of higher education. Over the long term, this program aims to improve the administration of justice in Ohio by encouraging students from all walks of life to consider a career at the bench or bar, thus improving the profession’s diversity and giving the citizen’s of Ohio the opportunity to be both judged and represented by their peers. Law students teach the curriculum to the high school students here at Akron Law.

Open to 1L’s and 2L’s. Applications are due by March 22nd at 3:00 PM. Log on to Symplicity for details and to apply. There are two different listings, one for those interested in teaching 9th or 10th grade, and one for those interested in teaching 11th or 12th grade. Deadline: March 22, 2015

All applications must be submitted on Symplicity. Please contact the CPPO with questions.