OACTA Law Student Diversity Scholarship – Deadline is TODAY

OACTA 2012 Law Student Diversity Scholarships Available

OACTA’s annual Law Student Diversity Scholarship program is open to incoming second and third-year African American, Hispanic, Asian, Pan Asian and Native American students enrolled at Ohio law schools. Incoming second and third-year female law students enrolled at Ohio law schools are also eligible regardless of race or ethnicity.  Other criteria for the scholarship include:

  • Academic achievement in law school;
  • Professional interest in civil defense practice; and
  • Service to community and to the cause of diversity;

Up to two (2) scholarships in the amount of $1,250 each will be awarded to successful applicants.  Applicants are required to submit an application, law school transcript and a cover letter addressing the following:  academic, personal and professional accomplishments, and why they should be selected as a recipient of the scholarship.  Applicants may submit up to three letters of recommendation.

The completed application and all other requested material must be received by April 20, 2012.  Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

Winners will be announced in June 2012.  Scholarship recipients will be recognized at the OACTA Annual Meeting in November.

Click here to download the application.

Spring 2012 Exam Room Assignments

The Spring 2012 Exam Room Assignments have been posted to: http://www.uakron.edu/law/about/calendar.dot.

Please remember that there is no room separation for ExamSoft and writers.  Rooms will start promptly at the times listed.  Fill rooms listed first and continue to overflow rooms for staggered start times.  You are to keep one seat in between each student.

Students receiving exam accommodations will receive personal notices from Misty D. Franklin with instructions on exam start times, room assignments and specific instructions for exam day.  You will receive these notices via your zips.uakron.edu email account by the end of the day on Thursday, April 19, 2012.

Judge Sam H. Bell Trial Advocacy Program

You are invited to participate in new program that the law school is developing in honor of The Honorable Sam H. Bell, the first Akron Law graduate to become a federal judge. Judge Bell was highly respected, even beloved, in the legal community.  Judge Bell served for many years as a trial judge in both state and federal court. He was deeply committed to improving the quality of advocacy at the trial court level.  The Judge Sam H. Bell Trial Advocacy Program will offer a unique educational opportunity for mid-career trial attorneys to achieve that goal.

The Program’s inaugural offering will focus on the jury system, including the selection of jurors. The lawyers involved in the program will conduct actual jury selection as if they were in court. In courtrooms presided over by Judge Taryn Heath of the Stark County Court of Common Pleas and Judges Patricia Cosgrove (retired) and Thomas Teodosio of the Summit County Court of Common Pleas, the lawyers will question prospective jurors and make arguments to the judges as they would in actual trials.

To provide this valuable training experience, we need some jurors. That’s where the opportunity for Akron Law students comes in.  The jury selection practicum will take place in the Summit County Courthouse on Thursday, May 10, 2012, at 1-4 p.m.

Students participating in this program will receive three hours counting toward their general community service graduation requirement.

If you would like to participate, please contact Shannon Aupperle (sfauppe@uakron.edu) no later than April 30.