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The Advocacy Department Shoots Up The Charts to a #9 National Ranking!
For the second consecutive year, The Advocacy Department at the Sturm College of Law earned a nod in U.S. News & World Report’s annual national evaluation of all law schools and their major department. The Advocacy Department was thrilled to receive a 9th Place ranking. Last year The Advocacy Department, having been never previously bestowed a position in the rankings, burst on to the national scene with an 11th Place ranking. Jumping this year to such an … Read entire article »
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Everette Pritchard and Joanne Morando Keep the Cup Home!
A field of twenty four teams from the University of Colorado Law School and University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law was narrowed to just one on March 10, 2013. DU 1L’s Everette Pritchard and Joanne Morando took home the annual Hogan Lovells Cup – keeping the Cup at DU for a fourth consecutive year. The Hogan Lovells DU/CU Cup is the premier competition for 1L’s from DU and CU, bringing teams of two attorneys and witnesses together in a mock trial competition. 15 teams from DU competed in the school-wide runoff held on March 2nd, with the top 10 teams advancing to compete against the best 8 teams from CU’s field of competitors. The top 10 DU teams braved the snowstorm and headed north to Boulder to compete in two preliminary … Read entire article »
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The Advocacy Department Shoots Up The Charts to a #9 National Ranking!
For the second consecutive year, The Advocacy Department at the Sturm College of Law earned a nod … Read more »
Mock Trial at DU Offers Students Practical Courtroom Experience
Mock Trial simulates real courtroom practices in a learning environment. While many of DU’s Trial Advocacy courses … Read more »
Moot Court Trains Students in Oral Advocacy Skills
DU’s Moot Court teams and activities train students in the development of sound oral advocacy skills through … Read more »
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DU Sweeps NTC Regional Championships!
The University of Denver Law School’s National Trial Team made school history when both of its competing … Read more »
Mock Trial at DU Offers Students Practical Courtroom Experience
Mock Trial simulates real courtroom practices in a learning environment. While many of DU’s Trial Advocacy courses … Read more »
Mentor's Practicum Brings Critical Skills To High School Students
DU's Trial Practice III: The Mentor's Practicum allows law students the opportunity to hone their trial advocacy … Read more »
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DU Wagner Moot Court Team In Top 16 In Inaugural Year
For the first time ever, the Sturm College of Law sent a team to the esteemed Wagner Labor and Employment Moot Court Competition, hosted each year by the New York Law School’s Moot Court Board. Forty-six teams competed. Nicole Porter, visiting professor from the University of Toledo College of Law, coached Denver Law’s team, composed of Jacob Allen, 3L, and Whitney Denning, … Read entire article »
DU Team Makes it to the Quarterfinals in the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition!
Third-year students Kristin Butler, Jennifer Gilbert-Eggleston, and Jessica Zaegel continued to demonstrate DU’s prowess at training appellate lawyers and environmental advocates when they competed at the National Environmental Moot Court Competition, hosted by Pace University in White Plains, New York, on February 21-23, 2013. After making a strong showing in three Preliminary Rounds, the DU Team advanced to the Semifinal Rounds, … Read entire article »
The Advocacy Department Shoots Up The Charts to a #9 National Ranking!
For the second consecutive year, The Advocacy Department at the Sturm College of Law earned a nod in U.S. News & World Report’s annual national evaluation of all law schools and their major department. The Advocacy Department was thrilled to receive a 9th Place ranking. Last year The Advocacy Department, having been never previously bestowed a position in the rankings, burst … Read entire article »
Sada and Esser Named Hoffman Cup Champions
On Wednesday, November 7, 2012, Diana Sada and Chris Esser faced off against Jesse DuBois and Chris Boeckx in the 2012 Daniel S. Hoffman Trial Advocacy Competition Championship Round. Both teams faced off in front of a combined panel of attorneys and judges and at the end of the night, Diana Sada and Chris Esser emerged victorious as this years … Read entire article »
Motions Competition Draws Esteemed Judges and Unprecedented Student Interest
By: Heather Jackson, Moot Court Board President The Motions Competition at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law was created in 2007 by Ms. Ashley Pollock and other members of the Moot Court Board, and was named in honor of the late Judge Phillip S. Figa in 2008, following Judge Figa’s untimely passing. The competition was created to test students’ oral advocacy and critical thinking skills by asking students to argue in support of or in opposition to a Motion before local attorneys and judges. In furtherance of the University’s mission to graduate practice-ready law students, this year, the Moot Court Board collaborated with Professor K.K. DuVivier to produce a competition which featured a Civil Procedure … Read entire article »
DU’s Trial Team Wins National Championship
THE NATION’S BEST LAW STUDENT ADVOCATE IS RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN BACKYARD. Third year law school student Chris Wilcox stood before former U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr, waiting with bated-breath for the presiding judge’s next words. Mr. Wilcox, a member of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law’s National Trial Team, was in Texas this past spring, competing in the … Read entire article »
DU Trial Team Advances to National Semifinals
Third-year students, Chris Wilcox and Ashley Opfer, continued with their SCOL Trial Team history-making campaign when they competed at the 2012 National Trial Championships in Austin, Texas, on March 21st through 25th. The National Trial Competition begins each year with 280 teams representing schools from across the U.S. The top ten percent (10%) of the teams (28 teams total) emerge … Read entire article »
University of Denver Wins Moot Shanghai
Maureen Weiland and Kaitlin Fox attended the Moot Shanghai, Vis Competition, from March 13 – 16, 2012 competing against four preliminary round teams from Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan), City University of Hong Kong, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) and the Moot Shanghai host school, the East China University of Political Science and Law (Shanghai, China). The team competed against Wuhan … Read entire article »
Jessup Moot Court Team Reaches Semi-Finals
The DU SCOL Jessup International Moot Court Team advanced to the semi-final round this last weekend in the Super Regional competition in Portland, Oregon, coming in 3rd place overall. The Jessup Competition is the largest moot court competition in the world with over 600 teams competing from over 80 countries. This year’s team members were: John Gaudette (3L), Brianna Evans, Victoria … Read entire article »