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• Dean’s Welcome: Why Now, Why C|M|LAW ​

12:20 - 12:45 p.m.​

• Admissions & Financial Aid
• The Student Perspective
• The Academic Program @ C|M|LAW​

12:50 - 1:15 p.m.​

• Admissions & Financial Aid
• Reaching Your Goals: Career Services
• The C|M|LAW Difference: Learn Law Live Justice Starts Here

1:40 – 2:00 p.m.​

Breakout Sessions

• Experiential Learning
• Criminal Law & Reform
• Immigration Law
• Environmental Law
• Law & Tech: Cybersecurity & IP
• Business Law: Tax & Transactional
• Admission Q & A
• Law Student Q & A​

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Join us for a Virtual Sidebar from 5-6 pm. Details and link TBA...

The Current State of the World CLE/Webinar, will broadly revolve around the topic of Covid-19 and its effects on the practice of law. This event will explore the legal perspectives of prominent leaders in the fields of Health Law, and the current racial state of the world. These speakers will discuss how COVID-19 has transformed their work, and in what ways the field of law will continue to transform with the constant moving pandemic.

Sponsored by The Global Business Law Review

Cost: $50
CLE: 2 Hours Pending

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Speakers
 

Scott R. Mote is Executive Director of the Ohio Lawyers Assistance Program, Inc., an Ohio nonprofit corporation that provides education, intervention, monitoring and support for substance use disorders, process addictions, and mental illness, serving over 44,000 Ohio lawyers and judges, and over 3,000 law students in Ohio's nine law schools. OLAP is supported by The Supreme Court of Ohio, the Ohio State Bar Association, and Ohio Bar Liability Insurance Company (affiliate of the OSBA). A recovering alcoholic since January 7, 1985, Scott began volunteering with the Ohio State Bar Association's (OSBA) Lawyers Assistance Committee (LAC) in September 1985. He has been involved with the LAC/OLAP for over 35 years, serving as OLAP's first Associate Director beginning in 1995, and becoming Executive Director in March 1999. Scott has made over 700 presentations to lawyers, judges and law students and he has facilitated over 150 interventions and oversees six other chemical dependency and mental health professionals. Statistically, OLAP opens a new file nearly every day. Prior to making OLAP a fulltime endeavor in June 2007, Scott was a general practice lawyer and civil litigator for over 30 years, the last 18 as a founding partner of Harris, McClellan, Binau & Cox PLL, Columbus, where he is Of Counsel. 

Bethany Studenic is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Enlightened Solutions, an organization that creates, implements, and publishes research-based solutions that center the lived experiences of diverse people. Bethany holds her Bachelors in Social Work, Masters in Social Administration, and Juris Doctor. Bethany has over 10 years in community change experience, heading up highly visible social and research based movements. In addition, Bethany has worked with a variety of diverse populations through direct experience. Bethany is an accomplished fundraiser, government relations professional, community strategist, researcher and policy analysis expert.

Chinenye (ChiChi) Nkemere is a Co-Founder and Director of Strategy of Enlightened Solutions, an organization that creates, implements, and publishes research-based solutions that center the lived experiences of diverse people. ChiChi is a strategic thinker. She has over 10 years of experience in community and digital engagement and advocacy. ChiChi holds a Bachelors in Political Science and African/African American Studies from The Ohio State University and immediately moved to Houston to serve as a Teach for America educator. As public safety and workplace advocate she is dedicated to progressive and transformative community development.

Join us for an open discussion on Tuesday’s election, moderated by Dean Fisher.

Professor Brian Ray will moderate a panel of experts in the cybersecurity/privacy field. Panelists will include alums from DHS, McDonald Hopkins, Lewis Brisbois, and Ingram Micro CPO. Don't miss it! 

Students interested in attending may reach out to Jaime Gay for more information.

Students interested in attending may reach out to Jaime Gay for more information.

* Moderators: Lee Fisher, Dean, Cleveland-Marshall Law School, Cleveland State University and former Attorney General for the State of Ohio; Jessica Berg, CWRU School of Law

 The U.S. Supreme Court seeks to limit information about its internal deliberations, while the press's job is to report and disseminate as much information as possible about the Court and the cases. Combined with increasing demands for transparency in the digital age, the tension between an institution that seeks to preserve its opaqueness and a press corps that demands greater transparency results in an interesting dynamic. This CLE will explore the relationship between the Justices and the press, the media' approach to the Court's docket, and the effects of news coverage on public opinion.

*Moderator: Lee Fisher, Dean, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University

This panel will focus on the intersection of journalism and ethics in covering protests and protest narratives in the news, also addressing how adaptive technology is changing the ways that protests are covered. When Cleveland announced its downtown curfew, there didn’t seem to be a press policy exception, raising questions about exactly who qualifies as press (with reference to recent litigation in Portland on this subject).