Law School Receives Foreclosure Training Funding for Volunteer Lawyers

Akron, Ohio, May 8, 2008 — The University of Akron School of Law and the Akron Bar Association have received a $2,000 grant from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio to provide training to lawyers in the district who have agreed to perform work on a pro bono basis representing individual clients facing or in foreclosure.

“Nationally, in our state — and more significantly for our bar association and school of law — in Northeast Ohio, we are facing an increasing number of foreclosures. We know that foreclosures have a devastating impact on communities and the people in those communities. Our effort through this grant is to train lawyers how to deal with pre-foreclosure issues and foreclosures. In this way, we hopefully can blunt the devastation wrought by the widespread loss of homes,” says J. Dean Carro, UA Law Professor and Akron Bar President.

Lawyers who volunteer to work on this foreclosure project will receive free continuing legal education credits, as well as a two-volume treatise on foreclosure law. They will work with clients who seek assistance through Community Legal Aid Services Inc.

The University of Akron School of Law promotes justice, the protection of individual liberty and the rule of law through commitment to excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. The law school boasts nationally recognized programs in intellectual property and trial advocacy, as well as one of four Constitutional Law Centers in the United States. To learn more, visit www.uakron.edu/law.

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