The John Marshall Law School emphasizes involvement in interscholastic competitions in a variety of areas: trial and appellate advocacy, arbitration and negotiation, client counseling, mediation and international commercial arbitration.  Coaches are recruited from both faculty and area alumni.  Participation is founded upon a student's commitment to ethically represent The John Marshall Law School through the student's best efforts and to fully comply with each team's rigorous and demanding practice schedule.  This hard work and dedication pays off as John Marshall student competitors are consistently recognized in regional, national, and international competitions, such as those listed below.

Trial Advocacy

• National Student Trial Advocacy Competition (AAJ)  
• Georgetown University National White Collar Crime Mock Trial Invitational   
• Buffalo Niagara Invitational Mock Trial Competition  
• John Marshall/ABA National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition   
• Lone Star Classic National Mock Trial Competition  
• ABA Labor and Employment Law Competition
• National Trial Ethics Competition
• Capital City Challenge
• ABA Arbitration Advocacy Competition

Alternative Dispute Resolution

• ABA Client Counseling Competition 
• ABA Negotiation Competition 
• ABA Mediation Competition
• Midwest Regional Mediation Competition 
• Wilhelm C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition
• CBA International Mediation Competition

Other specialized programs include the following:

• Distinguished Jurist-in-Residence Program    
• National Anti-Vivisection Society:
  Advocacy & Animal Rights Symposium    
• Society of Trial Lawyers: Distinguished Litigator Lecture Series    
• Comparative Trial Advocacy and Litigation
  (taught in conjunction with the King's Inn, Dublin, Ireland)    
• Transnational Legal Negotiations
  (taught in conjunction with the King's Inn, Dublin, Ireland)
• Host School for the 2009 International Negotiation Competition

In addition, the Center sponsors an intramural mock trial competition for first-year students. During the Spring semester, second semester students are given an opportunity to compete in the First Year Intramural Mock Trial Competition. The trials are judged, critiqued, and scored by practicing attorneys and judges.

Interested in trying out to be on a competition team? Check out the schedule of upcoming tryouts.

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Competition team members.

 2008-2009
Teams

2009-2010
Teams