{"id":21660,"date":"2016-10-18T15:21:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T19:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=21660"},"modified":"2016-10-18T16:54:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T20:54:56","slug":"mississippi-college-school-law-wins-stetsons-national-pretrial-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2016\/10\/18\/mississippi-college-school-law-wins-stetsons-national-pretrial-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi College School of Law wins Stetson\u2019s National Pretrial Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21670\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MG_4068_First-Place.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21670 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MG_4068_First-Place-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"Mississippi College School of Law won first place.\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mississippi College School of Law won first place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A team of students from Mississippi College School of Law\u00a0won Stetson University College of Law\u2019s National Pretrial Competition on Oct. 13-16 in Gulfport, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen teams of students from across the country competed at Stetson. The competition, now in its ninth year, teaches students what attorneys do every day in offices and courtrooms across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The National Pretrial Competition provides advocates with a competition experience capturing the essence of what attorneys do in practice every day. We are so happy and excited to congratulate Mississippi College of Law on their well earned victory,&#8221; said Stetson Professor of Trial Advocacy Charles Rose III, director of the Center for Excellence in Advocacy.<\/p>\n<p>Competing teams receive a problem based on normal pretrial issues; write two memoranda of law that will be scored; make oral arguments; and present evidence and make a closing argument in an evidentiary hearing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21672\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MG_4199_2nd-Place.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MG_4199_2nd-Place-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Regent University School of Law placed second.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regent University School of Law placed second.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For more information, contact the Center for Excellence in Advocacy at 727-562-7317 or nptc@law.stetson.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of students from Mississippi College School of Law\u00a0won Stetson University College of Law\u2019s National Pretrial Competition on Oct. 13-16 in Gulfport, Florida. 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