Regent Law’s advocacy teams have won over 60 national and regional championships, best brief, and best oralist awards.
Regent University School of Law’s Center for Advocacy trains students in the legal skills of negotiation, trial advocacy and appellate advocacy, developing competition teams that have seen extraordinary success and are among the top teams in the nation.
View a complete list of team wins here in addition to recent highlights below.
2012 ABA Alternative Dispute Resolution Competition Regional Champions
Continuing a tradition of excellence in legal competition, Regent University School of Law's Alternative Dispute Resolution Board (ADR) won the 2012 American Bar Association (ABA) Regional Negotiation Competition Nov. 10-11, at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.
Pictured (L-R): Christopher Bell and Hannah Carter
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2012 National Moot Court Competition (NMCC) Regional Champions
Regent's Moot Court team--composed of Andrew Kartchner, Jessica Pak, and Paul Bailey--won the Region IV competition of the National Moot Court Competition (NMCC) sponsored by the New York Bar Association. Regent’s team also won the competition award for Best Brief. Held Nov. 16-17, at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Va., the competition included 22 teams. The team went on to compete in the 2013 National competition where they earned 2nd place for best brief.
Pictured (L-R): Paul Bailey, Jessica Pak, and Andrew Kartchner
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2012 National Moot Court Competition Top 8 and 2nd Best Brief
Regent's Moot Court team--composed of Tristen Cramer, Amy Vitale and Megan Donley-- finished as one of the top eight teams out of a field of 191 teams from around the country. Their competition brief was graded as the second best brief in the nation.
Pictured (L-R): Amy Vitale, Professor Mike Hernandez, Tristan Cramer, Megan Donley
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2012 ABA National Negotiation Competition 2nd & 5th Place
Two teams from the Alternative Dispute Resolution Board (ADR) placed among the top five teams in the American Bar Association (ABA) National Negotiation Competition in New Orleans Feb. 3-4. Regent was the only law school to send two teams to this competition, and those teams finished second and fifth in the nation.
Pictured (L-R): Chris Bell, Hannah Carter, Professor Eric DeGroff, Braden Morgan, Shiann Ashenbrenner
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2011 Billings, Exum, and Frye National Moot Court Competition 2nd Place and Best Brief Honors
Amy Vitale (2L), Linh Flores (3L), and Matthew Roche (3L) beat out 30 teams for second place overall at the 2011 Billings, Exum, and Frye National Moot Court Competition hosted at Elon University School of Law. They were also awarded Best Brief.
Pictured (L-R): Amy Vitale, Linh Flores, Matthew Roche.
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2011 William B. Spong, Jr. Moot Court Invitational Tournament Best Oralist
Regent Law 2L Jonathan Young received top individual honors as Best Oralist at this year’s William B. Spong, Jr. Invitational Tournament hosted by William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Va.
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2011 William B. Spong, Jr. Moot Court Invitational Tournament Third Place Honors
Of the 21 teams that competed, Regent Law 2Ls Annalise Lang, Jamie Barton and Jonathan Young received third place overall in the 2011 William B. Spong, Jr. Invitational Tournament hosted by William & Mary Law School.
Pictured (L-R): Annalise Lang, Jonathan Young, Jamie Barton
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2010 NBLSA International Negotiation Competition Champions
Regent Law teams are two-for-two in winning the National Black Law Students Association (NBLSA) International Negotiation Competition.
In 2010, Efrem Craig and Tiffany Verdell advanced past teams from Boston University and the University of Virginia to win the national championship, scoring 98 out of 100 in the final round.
NBLSA’s International Negotiation Competition (INC) is designed to hone the negotiation skills vital to a legal career while fostering an awareness of timely issues facing the global community. The winning team successfully negotiates real-life, cross-border conflicts over multiple 80 minute competition rounds.
Pictured (L-R): Efrem Craig, Tiffany Verdell
Read more about Regent’s 2010 NBLSA National Negotiation Competition championship here.
2010 Texas Young Lawyers Association Regional Champions
Regent’s team of 2L Kate Hart and 3L David Johnson, coached by 3L and fellow Trial Advocacy Board member Lu Aloupas, defeated teams from the University of Virginia, William and Mary, and the University of Richmond to capture the 2010 Texas Young Lawyers Association Regional Championship.
The win is the latest in a string of Regent Trial Advocacy Board Championships including the 2009 National Pretrial Competition Championship and corresponding Best Brief/Best Oral Advocate awards, along with the Best Brief award at the 2008 National Pretrial Competition.
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2009 National Pretrial Competition Champions
Following up on winning the "Best Brief" award at the 2008 National Pretrial Competition, this year's team of
Kate Hart, Jerry Harris, Lu Aloupas, and David Johnson finished as the overall 2009 National Pretrial Champions. The team also won the "Best Brief" award again this year and completed a clean sweep of the final round awards when Kate Hart was named "Best Oral Advocate" for the Semi-Final Round and Jerry Harris was named the "Best Oral Advocate" for the Final Round.
Pictured (L-R): Kate Hart, Jerry Harris, Lu Aloupas, Prof. David Velloney, David Johnson
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2009 William B. Spong, Jr. Moot Court Invitational Tournament Champions
For the second year in a row, our Moot Court team took first place honors at the William B. Spong, Jr. Invitational Moot Court Tournament, sponsored by William & Mary Law School.
Pictured (L-R): Audre Honnas, Professor Michael Hernandez, Chuck Slemp
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2009 Merhige National Environmental Negotiation Competition
Our Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) team won the Robert R. Merhige Jr. National Environmental Negotiation Competition held at the University of Richmond's T.C. Williams School of Law.
Pictured (L-R): Bo Holden, Professor Eric DeGroff, and Katy Dacanay
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2008 ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition – Regional Champions
Out of 31 moot court teams competing in the 2008 ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition (NAAC) in Washington, D.C., two teams from Regent Law emerged as Regional Champions and advanced to the national finals. Two of Regent's teams also won first and second best brief awards at the regional competition.
Pictured Front (L-R): James Nealis, Josh Jewett, Rhonda Kinard
Pictured Back (L-R): John Legg, Valerie Kuntz, Cort Walker
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2007 ABA National Negotiation Championship
In 2007, two Regent Law students went head to head with 219 other teams from the nation’s top law schools to take first place in the prestigious American Bar Association (ABA) National Negotiation Competition.
This marked the second consecutive national win for Regent Law.
Pictured: Steven Pfeiffer & Dawn Young
2006 ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition
In 2006, a team of Regent Law students won the ABA’s National Appellate Advocacy Competition, winning the moot court contest and placing first for the nation’s Best Brief. (Video below: Dannielle Hall, Dean Scharnhorst & Andrew Baugher, Moot Court National Champions.)
