{"id":16027,"date":"2014-10-20T13:11:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T17:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=16027"},"modified":"2014-10-21T08:44:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T12:44:41","slug":"texas-tech-sweeps-stetsons-seventh-annual-national-pretrial-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2014\/10\/20\/texas-tech-sweeps-stetsons-seventh-annual-national-pretrial-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech wins Stetson\u2019s Seventh Annual National Pretrial Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Tech University School of Law won Stetson University College of Law&#8217;s Seventh Annual National Pretrial Competition on Oct. 19 in Gulfport, Fla.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16044\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16044\" style=\"width: 268px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Winners-with-Judges.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16044 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Winners-with-Judges-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Texas Tech team with the competition judges.\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Texas Tech team with the competition judges. Back row: Julie Walbroel, the Honorable Caroline Tesche, and Stetson Law Associate Dean Michael Allen. Front row: John Roddy Pace, Katherine Handy (Best Advocate, Final Round), Delaney Crocker, and Caleb Miller.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAll of the advocates were poised and professional throughout the competition\u2014a competition that combines both the presentation of a classic legal argument and the presentation of evidence,\u201d said Stetson moot court adviser and professor Brooke Bowman. \u201cStetson\u2019s competition gives teams from around the country an opportunity to hone their real-world skills as professional advocates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech also won the Best Memorandum of Law Award for the Plaintiff and Charleston School of Law won the Best Memorandum of Law Award for the Defendant.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine Handy from Texas Tech won the Best Advocate Award in the Final Round, and John Roddy Pace, also from Texas Tech, won the Best Advocate Award in the Semifinal Round.<\/p>\n<p>A team from Chicago-Kent College of Law placed second and Regent University School of Law and Mississippi College School of Law were semifinalists.<\/p>\n<p>Stetson University College of Law has ranked number one in trial advocacy 16 times since <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report <\/em>began rankings in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about advocacy at Stetson, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/advocacy\">www.stetson.edu\/law\/advocacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Tech University School of Law won Stetson University College of Law&#8217;s Seventh Annual National Pretrial Competition on Oct. 19 in Gulfport, Fla. \u201cAll of the advocates were poised and professional throughout the competition\u2014a competition that combines both the presentation of a classic legal argument and the presentation of evidence,\u201d said Stetson moot court adviser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[615,249,496,1190,41,590,829],"class_list":["post-16027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-1","tag-award","tag-mock-trial","tag-national-pretrial-competition","tag-stetson-today","tag-texas-tech","tag-trial-advocacy","tag-trial-team"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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