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Resources for Degree Candidates

Competition Videos

The Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution offers degree candidates the opportunity to view the final rounds of select arbitration, negotiation, client counseling, and mediation competitions through Tegrity, the law school's online streaming video system. Trial advocacy training videos are also available to John Marshal students, faculty, and staff through the Courtroom View Network (CVN) online. For degree candidates interested in trying out to be on a team, these videos are a perfect introduction to the competition experience. For competitors, they are an effective tool to use in preparing for the competition.

Arbitration

2008–2009 ABA Law Student Division Arbitration Competition (San Antonio, TX)
Championship Round: January 24, 2009
Chapman University School of Law v. University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law

2007–2008 ABA Law Student Division Arbitration Competition (St. Petersburg, FL)
Championship Round: January 26, 2008
Stetson University College of Law v. Texas Tech University

2006–2007 ABA Law Student Division Arbitration Competition (Austin, TX)
Championship Round: November 18, 2006
Stetson University College of Law v. Texas Tech University

Client Counseling

2008–2009 ABA Law Student Division Client Counseling Competition (Durham, NC)
Championship Round: March 14, 2009
The George Washington University Law School, Lewis and Clark Law School, and University of Nebraska College of Law

2007–2008 ABA Law Student Division Client Counseling Competition (White Plains, NY)
Championship Round: March 9, 2008
The George Washington University Law School, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law, and William Mitchell College of Law

Mediation

2008 ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Representation in Mediation Competition
Regional Final Round
University of California Hastings College of Law

Negotiation

Conflict Resolution Camp
August 19–20, 2009
The John Marshall Law School

2008–2009 ABA Law Student Division Negotiation Competition (Boston, MA)
Championship Round: February 14, 2009
Florida International University College of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, University of California - Davis School of Law, and Washington and Lee University School of Law

2007–2008 ABA Law Student Division Negotiation Competition (Los Angeles, CA)
Championship Round: February 9, 2008
The John Marshall Law School, University of California - Berkley Boalt Hall School of Law, University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, and University of Tulsa College of Law

2006–2007 ABA Law Student Division Negotiation Competition (Miami, FL)
Championship Round: February 11, 2007
Creighton University School of Law, The John Marshall Law School, Regent University School of Law, and Western New England School of Law

Trial Advocacy

Trial advocacy training videos are available to John Marshal degree candidates, faculty, and staff through the Courtroom View Network (CVN) online. Select "Video Training Library" at the top of the screen on CVN website. Register with the site using a jmls.edu email address in order to access the videos.

The videos are organized into the following categories:

• Opening Statements: Opening - Argue the Law, Use of Themes, Use of PowerPoint or Exhibits, Humanize the Client, Rhetorical Devices, Address Weaknesses in Your Case, Use of Five Senses - Painting a Picture, Final Three Minutes
• Direct Exam: Direct Exam Overview, Laying a Foundation, Introducing and Personalizing a Witness, Use of Exhibits, Inoculate a Witness - Prepare for Cross, Transitioning Subjects, Sit-Down Questions, Pace of Questions, Refresh a Witness's Recollection, Movement in the Courtroom
• Direct of Expert: Direct of Expert Overview, Foundation – Qualification, Foundation for Opinions, Transitioning, Expert Witness - Use of Exhibits, Hypothetical, Objections and Rephrasing
• Cross Exam: Cross Exam Overview, Control, Bias, Impeachment, Qualification, The Likeable Witness, The Hostile Witness, Impeachment - Prior Inconsistent Statement, Impeachment by Use of Learned Treatise, Box in Witness, Cross with Exhibits
• Closing Arguments: Closing Arguments Overview, Closing - Argue the Law, Final 4 Minutes, Thanking the Jury, Rule of 3 and Other Rhetorical Devices, Burden of Proof Explaining, Asking for Money or Answering Request for Money
• Rebuttal: Rebuttal Overview, Flipping the Other Side's Theme