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For just $200 per month, recent graduates looking to start careers as legal entrepreneurs can lease state-of-the-art, newly constructed office space situated in what was previously a section of the law library. Practitioners may lease their space for two years as they seek to establish their own private law practices. “We offer students the resources to explore solo practice as a viable, chosen career path early in their law school education, and we are now able to provide them with affordable office space close to the courts and our law library once they graduate,” says Dean Craig Boise. “While our graduates have a thorough understanding of the law, they might not have the background necessary for starting their own business. We believe the programming and resources the incubator offers will bridge that educational gap.”
Alumnus Kenneth B. Liffman; President Ronald M. Berkman; Dean Craig M. Boise; Gregory S. Scott, president, C M LAW Alumni Association; Darrell Clay, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
INCUBATOR HELPS GRADS START LEGAL CAREERS Ohio’s first law school-based solo practice incubator – one of approximately 10 in the nation – has opened its doors at C M LAW.
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In addition to office space, tenants have access to a board room and low-cost business services. Through a partnership with the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, reduced-cost health and liability insurance and vendor discounts also are available. Beyond monetary advantages, tenants benefit from substantial guidance in the practical management of their firms and the handling of their cases. The school’s Solo Practice Advisory Council will host frequent presentations and workshops by local lawyers, service providers and others. And incubator coordinator Ashley Jones, who graduated from the law school in 2011 and is now a criminal defense attorney in solo practice, serves as a resource for guidance and troubleshooting.
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DOCTORAL STUDENTS TAKE ON NATIONAL ROLE Two doctoral students are bringing national attention to CSU’s Counseling Psychology program as the only two student members of the Society of Counseling Psychology’s (SCP) executive board. Brittan Davis and Sneha Pitre, who will graduate in 2016, represent the interests of their fellow CSU students and some 2,100 students in approximately 70 American Psychological Association (APA)-accredited doctoral counseling psychology programs across the nation. They sit on the board as part of their responsibilities as co-chairs of Student Affiliates of Seventeen (SAS), a national student membership organization currently housed at CSU. In a competitive process, the University was selected as the host institution for SAS for the 20132016 term.
“We are honored and humbled to serve our peers in a national leadership role, work alongside some of the most intelligent and accomplished scholars in our field, and promote scholarship and professional development,” says Davis. As SAS co-chairs, the duo lead an executive board comprised of fellow CSU students who are responsible for three annual newsletters that are circulated throughout SCP membership, a website, awards, programming at the APA convention and other conferences, and more. CSU's initiatives as SAS host institution center around multicultural competence, research and scholarship, ethical practice/professional development and advocacy/community action. “Developing mentoring programs for students of marginalized groups, providing programming focused on the enhancement of research and multicultural competencies at national conferences, forming research collaborations, developing research awards for students who exemplify a strong commitment to multiculturalism and social justice, and encouraging community action initiatives through SAS programming are just a few of the goals we have planned for CSU's term as SAS host institution,” says Pitre.
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