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Jeffries, Kube, Forrest & Monteleone – Cleveland, OH – on-campus interviews to be held Thursday, January 23, 2014
Small litigation firm seeks summer associate and will be conducting interviews on campus next week. Open to 2Ls, top 30% of class; submit resume, cover letter and law school transcript to lawcareerplanning@uakron.edu or you can drop your materials off at the CPPO, no later than Tuesday, January 13th at 5:00 PM.
The application for the 2013-2014 Donovan Scholarship is now available.
Click here to download the application and eligibility criteria (PDF).
The application deadline is February 14, 2014. Please contact Adam Messner (apm@uakron.edu) with questions.
The Expungement Clinic helps low-income Akron residents seal the record of their criminal convictions. A sealed record enables many people better access to jobs, housing, and volunteer opportunities. Students will learn integral skills in the legal field including filing paperwork with the court, drafting motions, interviewing real clients, and communicating with clients both through the mail and over the phone. Students who are eligible for a legal intern certificate will have ample opportunities to appear in court and present an oral argument.
A student commitment to the Expungement Clinic can be for as few or as many hours as the student pleases. The only requirement is that you devote enough time to attempt to contact your clients at least twice a week. These hours qualify as Pro Bono Limited Means.
There will be three training sessions this week. Students only need to attend one meeting These sessions are informational only, and students are welcome to attend simply for a brief overview of the law surrounding sealing of a conviction. The trainings will be Wednesday the 15th at 3:00 PM, Thursday the 16th at 2:30 PM, Friday the 17th at 12:30 PM, and Tuesday the 21st at 12:30 PM. Sessions will be in Room 134 and will be expected to last 30 minutes. The training session on Tuesday the 21st should last about an hour.
Students with any questions please contact Russel Nichols at russel.nichols@gmail.com.
The Eleventh Annual Law Student Writing Competition
Law students are invited to submit articles addressing domestic violence and the law from a national or international perspective.
Awards
1st Place:
Publication in the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
Resolution from the ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence and honorarium
2nd Place:
Resolution from the ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence and national publicity
3rd Place:
Resolution from the ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence and national publicity
All past and present winners’ names and papers appear on the ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence website at www.americanbar.org/cdsv
Deadline
Deadline for submissions is May 30, 2014 5:00 p.m. EST.
Send as a Microsoft Word document to
dvwriting@americanbar.org
No exceptions. Winners will be notified in August 2014.
Guidelines
• Submissions must further the legal needs of victims of domestic violence or domestic violence victims and their children, or advance efforts to address the incidence, causes and effects of intimate partner violence.
• Submissions may be no longer than 7500 words (typically 20-25 pages), including footnotes and other text but excluding author identifying information, and must be double-spaced with one-inch margins. Any paper exceeding the 7500 word limit WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. Students are free to submit papers of shorter length as we are most concerned with quality and originality.
• Authors must be enrolled in an ABA-accredited law school at the date of their submission or may have graduated in December 2013 or May 2014.
• Submissions may not have been previously accepted for publication and, if they have been submitted elsewhere for publication, the first place winner must certify that the first publication of the article will be in the Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law.
• The ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence reserves the right not to name a winner of the competition if it determines that none of the submissions are of appropriate quality.
In the fall semester we piloted a program for reserving the group study rooms online. Over the course of the semester we ran into a number of problems with it. We have discontinued using the online system. We will make the group study room reservations for you at the Circulation Desk. We will continue to look into other options for an online reservation system. Please see a member of the library staff if you have any questions. Thank you.