Reminder – all Pro Bono/Community Service hours from spring term due Friday, June 28th!

PLEASE NOTE: all hours completed during the spring term must be reported by this Friday,  June 28th.

You will no longer be handing in your forms or emailing your forms to Professor Joann Sahl or Alisa Benedict O’Brien to report hours. Please use this new method for all summer hours, and going forward.

Your will find instructions here: http://www.uakron.edu/law/community/symplicity-entry-instructions.pdf

Please note, your supervisors must still sign the Certification of Supervisor forms and you will be uploading those forms for all of your volunteer work.

If you do not have your Symplicity log in information, or you need any help with this new reporting process, please email Alisa Benedict O’Brien: ab139@uakron.edu. Thank you.

Summer 2013 Exam Room Assignments

Summer 2013
Exam Rooms

FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2013

Property I – Professor Lee
6:15 P.M. – L-151
6:30 P.M. – L-152

Basic Business Associations – Professor Anderson
6:30 P.M. – W-210

Secured Transactions – Professor Gibson
6:30 P.M. – L-165

Wills, Trusts & Estates – Professor Newman
6:30 P.M. – W-206
If overflow is needed use W-209 also.

Office Change

Mrs. Palmer-Schmitz’office (Office of Academic Support Programs) has moved. Her office is now located in the Dean’s Suite, rather than Room 317 of the Library. You may still pop in to see her without an appointment from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm. Appointments will be necessary after 4:30 because the Dean’s Suite closes at 4:30. If you have any questions, please drop Mrs. Palmer-Schmitz an email at dpalmer1@uakron.edu.

$2,500 Law Student Assistance Fund Scholarship – Application Deadline is July 15

Description

The Law Student Assistance Fund may assist one or more students from Shelby County, Ohio and the surrounding counties abutting on Shelby County, Ohio in their final year of law school by providing assistance to defray the cost of tuition, books, and such other expenses incidental to attending law school.

You may call us with any question or if you require attachments at (937) 497-7800 (M-F/8-4)

Requirements

  • A law student with a permanent residence in Shelby County, Ohio or a county abutting Shelby County, Ohio at the time the award is made (not precluding an at-school residence).
  • Demonstrated leadership in undergraduate and law school activities regarding self and professional improvement.
  • Demonstrated leadership in community, school and church.
  • Graduated from a high school in Shelby County, Ohio or from a high school located in a county abutting Shelby County, Ohio.
  • Demonstrated above-average legal scholarship while attending law school.
  • Financial need.
  • Preference shall be given to students who indicate a desire for the general practice of law in a rural or county-seat setting and to third year law students who are married and have children.
  • Recipients shall not be discriminated against because of age, gender, race, physical handicap, disability, ethnic background, religious affiliation, or creed.

Click here to apply.

Summer Exam Accommodation Need

TO:                  Law Student Body

FROM:            Ivy Banks, Director of Student Services

SUBJECT:      Special Exam Accommodations

Please notify me in the Dean’s Office, c/o College Programs Specialist Misty D. Franklin, if it is necessary for you to have any special exam accommodations for exams.  You must notify the Dean’s Office no later than:

Fall Exams – First Week of November
Spring Exams – First week of April
Summer Exams – One week before the end of Session

Please use the form on the next page of this memo.  We will review all special exam accommodations for the term, make exam arrangements and notify students before the last instructional day of room assignments and arrangements.  Please keep in mind that your exams will be held on the same day as the schedule exam, unless otherwise noted.

 REGARDING TEMPORARY DISABILITIES:  

 If you do not already have documentation in the Dean’s Office, please submit a medical excuse from your attending physician with your response/request for a temporary, one-time accommodation. 

REGARDING PERMANENT OR LONG-TERM DISABILITIES: 

Students with permanent disabilities must be registered with the University’s Office of Accessibility.  Contact information for that office may be found at:

 http://www.uakron.edu/access/index.php

 REGARDING ALL TEMPORARY, PERMANENT, OR LONG-TERM DISABILITIES:

 If you require accommodations for special exam assistance, please complete the information on the next page of this document.  Please be specific about the accommodations you will need given a particular exam format (e.g., a reader and time and a half – multiple choice; a computer and double time – essay format).  This specific information, along with the documentation about your disability, which may already be on file in the Dean’s Office, will allow us to make informed decisions about the accommodations you need.

YOU  MUST  FILL  OUT  THIS  FORM  EVEN  IF  YOU  HAVE  RECEIVED  SPECIAL  ACCOMMODATIONS  IN  PREVIOUS  SEMESTERS.    Should we not receive your request by the deadline date, we will assume you have no accommodation needs for this exam period.

c:            Elizabeth A. Reilly, Interim Dean
               William S. Jordan, Associate Dean

 

SPECIAL  EXAM  ACCOMMODATION  REQUEST ~

 (Please return to Law Dean’s Office, c/o College Programs Specialist Misty D. Franklin)

 Student’s Name________________________________________________________________

 Mailbox # ________________          Email address ___________________________________

 Full-time Student ____          Part-time Student ____         Cell Phone:                                       

 My disability is:         _____  Temporary (medical excuse from my attending physician is attached)

                                     -or-

                                     _____  Permanent or Long-Term                                              

                                                            _____  I have registered with UA Office of Accessibility

                                                                        -or-

                                                            _____  I plan to register with UA Office of Accessibility by _________

                                                                                                                                                                  (date)

Accommodations Requested:

 1.   __________________________________________________________________________

 2.   __________________________________________________________________________

 3.   __________________________________________________________________________

 4.__________________________________________________________________

 EXAM INFORMATION: 

Course

Professor

Unaccommodated

Exam Length

Exam Date

and Time

Exam Format