{"id":2225,"date":"2010-03-05T14:53:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T19:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2010-03-05T14:53:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T19:53:38","slug":"david-d-dowd-sr-memorial-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2010\/03\/05\/david-d-dowd-sr-memorial-award\/","title":{"rendered":"David D. Dowd Sr. Memorial Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATTENTION:\u00a0 UPPER DIVISION LAW STUDENTS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The School of Law is accepting applications for the David D. Dowd Sr. Memorial Award<\/span><\/strong> named in tribute to a distinguished attorney who dedicated his entire life to public service.\u00a0 The award was created in 2007 by his son, Senior District Court Judge David D. Dowd, Jr. on the occasion of the recognition of his 25 years of service in the federal judiciary. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The purpose of the Dowd Award is to promote a commitment to public service for all lawyers.\u00a0 Awards are directed to Akron Law students considering public careers while in school and interested in seeking professionals careers in public service following graduation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0To be eligible, you must have:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Completed your second year by the Spring of 2010<\/li>\n
  2. Show a commitment to public service to date<\/li>\n
  3. Be capable of working the summer of 2010 for at least ten weeks in a public placement<\/li>\n
  4. Be committed to working in a public setting upon graduation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Placements this summer, in order of preference will be:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

    1st<\/sup> Preference:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 T<\/strong>he Summit County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, The Stark County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, the Wayne County Prosecutor\u2019s Office; the law departments for Akron, Canton, Massillon; and the Public Defender\u2019s Offices in Summit and Stark counties<\/p>\n

    \u00a02nd<\/sup> Preference:<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Northern District of Ohio or the Public\u00a0Defender\u2019s Office for the District<\/p>\n

    \u00a03rd<\/sup> Preference:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Other prosecutors\u2019 or law directors\u2019 offices<\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a04th<\/sup> Preference:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Other not already listed public service agencies<\/p>\n

    Awards <\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Summer work 2010 will be minimum of $2000.00 to one student.\u00a0 The student will be expected to work 20 hours per week for not less than10 weeks.<\/p>\n

    If you are interested,<\/span><\/strong> please submit a cover letter and resume to Professor Carro at carro1@uakron.edu<\/a> or by hard copy by March 29, 2010. <\/span><\/strong>Students in the upper 30% of the class will be given preference. Students should list short and long term goals and explain why the student wishes to work in a particular office, as noted above, and in this field. A committee will then review the applications and perhaps meet with selected applicants. We will select a person before the Spring term is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    ATTENTION:\u00a0 UPPER DIVISION LAW STUDENTS The School of Law is accepting applications for the David D. Dowd Sr. Memorial Award named in tribute to a distinguished attorney who dedicated his entire life to public service.\u00a0 The award was created in 2007 by his son, Senior District Court Judge David D. Dowd, Jr. on the occasion … Continue reading “David D. Dowd Sr. Memorial Award”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/2231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}