{"id":37795,"date":"2016-09-13T08:22:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T12:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=37795"},"modified":"2016-09-13T08:24:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T12:24:30","slug":"18th-annual-law-student-closing-argument-competition-win-scholarship-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2016\/09\/13\/18th-annual-law-student-closing-argument-competition-win-scholarship-money\/","title":{"rendered":"18th Annual Law Student Closing Argument Competition&#8211;Win Scholarship Money!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to register for the 18th Annual Law Student Closing Argument Competition, which will be on\u00a0<strong>Thursday, October 13 at the Cuyahoga County Courthouse.\u00a0<\/strong>This competition is open to any\u00a0upper-division law student, who will give a 15-minute closing argument in a civil case for the plaintiff, a catastrophically injured child. The argument is on damages only.<\/p>\n<p>The top three students will receive scholarship awards of\u00a0<strong>$750 for first place, $500 for second place, and $200 for third place.<\/strong> Akron Law has traditionally performed well at this competition&#8211;we took home first and third place last year, and in 2013 we swept all three places!<\/p>\n<p>The registration deadline is\u00a0<strong>October 3.<\/strong> For more information and to apply, contact:<\/p>\n<p>Landskroner Grieco Merriman, LLC<\/p>\n<p>(216) 522-9000<\/p>\n<p>Ask for Anathea<\/p>\n<p>E-mail:<a href=\"mailto:anathea@lgmlegal.com\"> anathea@lgmlegal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2016\/09\/13\/18th-annual-law-student-closing-argument-competition-win-scholarship-money\/18th-annual-flyer-002\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37811\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37811\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2016\/09\/18th-Annual-Flyer-002-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"18th-annual-flyer-002\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to register for the 18th Annual Law Student Closing Argument Competition, which will be on\u00a0Thursday, October 13 at the Cuyahoga County Courthouse.\u00a0This competition is open to any\u00a0upper-division law student, who will give a 15-minute closing argument in a civil case for the plaintiff, a catastrophically injured child. The argument is on damages only. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2016\/09\/13\/18th-annual-law-student-closing-argument-competition-win-scholarship-money\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;18th Annual Law Student Closing Argument Competition&#8211;Win Scholarship Money!!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2963,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795","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\/2963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37795"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37827,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795\/revisions\/37827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}