On April 13 at 5:45 pm in L-134, the Sports and Entertainment Law Society will hold officer elections for the 2010-2011 academic year. All current members and interested law students are invited.
Financial Survival Skills — Thursday, April 15, 4 -5 p.m. Student Union 308
Sponsored by the University of Akron Center for Career Management — Need some pointers on how to make a budget? Wondering how you will pay off your student loans? Getting ready to graduate and wondering about benefits and retirement planning? Come learn some of things no one ever taught you, but you need to know about Financial Survival Skills!
Career Conversation:
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Student Union 308
For more information about the Center for Career Management’s programs please contact us at 330-972-7747 or email us at uaccm@uakron.edu. You can also view our program guide on our website: www.uakron.edu/ccm.
Free Webinar on Making the Most of your summer public interest expereince!
Law Students: Save the date! On Wednesday, April 14th at 3:00pm EDT, NALP and the National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) are presenting “Top Ten Tips for a Successful Summer Internship in a Public Interest Office…and What to Avoid.” This free webinar will help law students make the most of their summer experiences in civil legal services organizations and public defenders’ offices by offering concrete tips from both public interest attorneys with extensive experience in supervising law students and law school public interest advisors who counsel students on maximizing professional development opportunities. The webinar will be led by Jennifer Thomas, Director of Legal Recruiting for the D.C. Public Defender Service, and Phyllis Holmen, Executive Director of the Georgia Legal Services Program.
The webinar will be offered live on April 14th and archived for later viewing. All students and law school career professionals who are interested in participating on April 14th should e-mail Kevin Mills, Director of Membership at NLADA at membership@nlada.org, and provide your full name, e-mail address, and a phone number. Please type “Student Webinar” in the email’s subject line.
Have Your Say Forum: April 13
Albert and Vern Oldham Intellectual Property Law Lecture Series presents:
Professor Michael Meurer, Boston University School of Law
“Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers
Put Innovation at Risk”
Thursday, April 15 at 5 p.m. in Room 152
Recent empirical analysis provides conclusive evidence that the patent system today fails, in general, as a system of property rights. Properly functioning property rights give property owners an incentive to efficiently invest in their property. As recently as the 1980s, the patent system provided positive incentives for patent owners to invest in their inventions. And even today it provides positive incentives in some industries, such as the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, and to some groups of inventors, such as independent inventors. However, for most firms—in particular, those firms who account for the largest share of R&D spending—today’s patent system actually decreases incentives to invest in R&D and commercialization. Professor Meurer will discuss empirical evidence that points to the reasons for this failure.
Reception to immediately follow lecture.