Regent University School of Law’s advocacy skills programs train 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.
2009 National Pretrial Competition Champions
Following up on winning the "Best Brief" award at the 2008 National Pretrial Competition, this year's team of
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
Read more here.
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.)
