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5/30/2024
Akron Law women alumni on the bench

Akron Law is proud of the more than 80 women alumni who have served or currently serve as judges, mostly in Northeast Ohio. As Judge Saundra Robinson’s 1990 upset win revealed, voters—especially women voters—tend to prefer women judges. And women vote at a higher rate than men. In Summit County, all 14 judges are women. So are all five in Portage County. In Stark County, it’s seven of nine, and it’s two of four in Medina County.

5/15/2024
Celebrating Women at Akron Law

Next year—2025—will mark the 100th anniversary of the first woman graduate of The University of Akron School of Law.

5/15/2024
Female faculty trailblazers

Even into the late ‘60s, women had made few inroads in legal academia. According to the “Women in U.S. Law Schools” paper, by 1965, there had been only around 30 women in tenure-track positions. One notable member of this group was Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who taught at Rutgers and received tenure in 1969. A few years later, she became the first tenured woman at an Ivy League law school when she moved to Columbia Law School.

5/15/2024
Legal skills teams shine— and get a boost

Akron Law’s Plakas Mannos mock trial teams both turned in strong performances at the American Association for Justice (AAJ) Student Trial Advocacy Competition (STAC) regional competition in mid-March but fell short of defending the school’s 2023 championship.

5/15/2024
Akron Law women who broke the glass ceiling

The late Judge Mary Cacioppo ’45, was the only woman in her wartime graduating class of seven. Two years after earning her J.D., she formed a partnership with Patricia O’Donnell that is thought to have been the first all-female law firm in Akron.

5/9/2024
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Melody Stewart to deliver Akron Law commencement address

Supreme Court of Ohio Justice Melody J. Stewart will be the distinguished speaker at The University of Akron (UA) School of Law spring 2024 Commencement on Sunday, May12, at 2 p.m. in the James A. Rhodes Arena on the UA campus.

5/7/2024
Akron Law launches fully online M.S.L. program

The fully online Master of Studies in Law program provides maximum flexibility for students pursuing this two-year legal degree.

5/6/2024
The business of law is undergoing sweeping changes, expert says

The business and regulation of the practice of law are in the midst of their greatest period of change in more than a century, according to attorney Lucian Pera, who spoke recently at The University of Akron School of Law.

4/29/2024
Akron Law Students Step Up with Scholarly Writing

At least seven University of Akron School of Law students have had papers accepted for publication by scholarly journals this school year.

4/17/2024
National Jurist names 2L a Law Student of the Year

Akron School of Law 2L Tatyana Norman-Webler was selected by The National Jurist as one of its eight 2024 Law Students of the Year.

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