Akron Law Announcements

Serve the Community, Gain New Skills, and Support Your Student Organization

The “Valor Home,” is the first transitional home for veterans and their dependents in Summit County, Ohio.  The $1.5 million, 30-bed facility is a project of Family & Community Services of Portage County, which also operates Freedom House, a shelter for veterans in Kent.  Habitat for Humanity of Summit County offered to recruit volunteers to build interior and exterior walls for Valor Home.  We need your leadership, strength and energy to serve veterans in Summit County!

March we will be building the walls, 20 to 25 volunteers a day at 2301 Romig Road, Akron, OH 44320

April we will be installing the walls, 50 to 75 volunteers a day onsite.

Days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday      Time: 8:30-4:30

Volunteers should bring a lunch if planning to stay all day. All the tools and materials necessary for the project will be provided.

Volunteers March 10-March 18^th will be entered in a drawing to win one of three IPOD Shuffles.

Support your law student organizations: The law student organization with the most volunteer hours in March will receive $300 to use as they wish. The student organization with the most volunteer hours in April will receive $300 to use as they wish.

Steps to volunteer:

1. Contact Michelle McBee mtm45@student.uakron.edu(678)534-9166 to sign up for a day.
   1. Provide your name, date or dates you wish to volunteer, also if you want the credit to go towards student organization let me know which one.
   2. Go to http://www.hfhsummitcounty.org/volunteer.aspx
      1. Watch the Construction Safety video
      2. Fill out the volunteer waiver form
      3. Bring your volunteer waiver form with you on your first day of service.

Trial team members Dan Bray, Daniel Leister, Anthony Wise and Michelle McBee won the AAJ regional tournament in Delaware this weekend. The team will compete at the AAJ national championship held in Las Vegas on March 24, 2012.

 The final round of the AAJ competition featured two Akron teams. The other Akron team advancing to the final round consisted of trial team members Kelsey DiFrancesco, Greg Thompson, Laci Mason, and Joseph Martinez.

 Both teams achieved perfect records before advancing to the final round. The teams defeated Yale and Cincinnati in the semifinal rounds.

 This is the third time in the last five years the finals were Akron v. Akron. Alumni Larry Sutter and Brian Dodez coach the teams. Congratulations to all!