Texas Tech wins National Pretrial Competition at Stetson
A team of students from Texas Tech won the National Pretrial Competition at Stetson.
Students from Texas Tech University School of Law won the Eighth Annual National Pretrial Competition at Stetson University College of Law this past weekend in Gulfport. Sixteen teams from around the U.S. competed at Stetson.
Mississippi College School of Law won second place in the competition, as well as the Best Plaintiff’s Memorandum of Law Award. Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School won the Best Defendants’ Memorandum of Law Award. Texas Tech student Kristen Vander-Plas was named Best Advocate in the final round.
The student teams were tasked with writing two memoranda of law, presenting motion arguments, and presenting evidence and making closing arguments.
“Stetson’s National Pretrial Competition provides law students with a unique opportunity to do what attorneys do every day,” said Stetson’s Associate Director of the Center for Excellence in Advocacy and Moot Court adviser Professor Brooke Bowman. “This competition gives students an opportunity to hone their written and oral advocacy skills before they enter the practice.”
Chief Judge of the Middle District of Florida Bankruptcy Court Michael Williamson was the presiding judge in the final round of the competition. Stetson associate dean and professor Michael Allen and alumnus Jason Stearns J.D. ’08 also served as judges for the competition.
Post date: Oct. 12, 2015
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