ABA Moot Court Team Reaches Sweet 16
Congratulations to Baylor's ABA Moot Court Team of Taylor Romero, Maxim Ternosky, and Molly Higgins. At the National Finals of the ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition, held in Chicago, the Baylor team went undefeated in its preliminary rounds to advance to the National Octofinals. (The team qualified for the National Finals by winning the San Francisco Regional championship last month.) Taylor Romero's oral advocacy scores made her the #2 Speaker in the preliminary rounds; and the oral argument team of Taylor and Maxim Ternosky ranked #3 overall. The team was also aided in the preliminary rounds by an excellent brief score; Taylor and Max received valuable and substantial help from Molly Higgins, the third member of the team, in producing that brief. Although the team was later eliminated in a close round (Taylor and Max had higher individual speaker points, and higher total team points, but dropped a split decision on the controlling factor of total ballots), Taylor was named one of the Top 5 overall advocates at the National Tournament. In terms of both quantity and quality of teams, this is probably the most prestigious moot court tournament in the nation. To qualify for the nationals, and to perform at such a high level at nationals is truly outstanding. Please congratulate Taylor, Max, and Molly for all their efforts on behalf of Baylor Law School. Thanks also to Stephanie Paulissen for taking valuable time from her busy schedule to travel with the team and serve as bailiff.
New Law Review Members
Congratulations to the following students who have successfully written on to the Baylor Law Review in the Spring 2012 write-on competition: Catherine Clemons, Katie Faulk, Hailey Fox, Shay Powell, Derik Scott and Anna Williams.
National Champs!
Teams from Baylor Law School captured both first and second place at the National Trial Competition finals on March 24 in Austin. In the final round, the team of Mark Walraven and Steven Lopez defeated Joel Towner and Chaille Graft Walraven. Mark Walraven also was named Best Advocate. Read the full story.
Baylor Law vs. Baylor Law at AAJ regional mock trial competition
It was Baylor Law vs. Baylor Law in the finals of the American Association for Justice regional Student Advocacy Competition, and when it was over, the team of Ben Yelverton, Akilah Craig, George Cowden and Justin Fowles prevailed, but just barely, over the team of Michael Bristow, Leah Maxwell, Stephen Netherton and Blayne Thompson. The winning team will advance to the AAJ national competition on March 22-25 in Las Vegas. The Baylor Law teams are coached by Prof. Jim Wren, Kathy Serr and David Deaconson with David Schlottman serving as evidence coach.
Baylor Law Takes ABA Moot Court Regional Competition
The team of Molly Hinshaw, Taylor Romero, and Maxim Ternosky was undefeated in 5 oral argument rounds (dropping only 2 of 18 ballots throughout the tournament) at the ABA Moot Court Regional Competition in San Francisco. They won the final round against Cal-Davis unanimously and thereby qualified for the National Finals in Chicago in mid-April. Taylor won a top 10 regional advocate award for her overall tournament performance, and Maxim was judged the top speaker in the final round. The team of Tiffany Terndrup and Will Thomas also advanced to the Regional Finals but narrowly missed qualifying for the Nationals on a split decision. The teams are coached by Prof. Brian Serr.
Baylor Law Team Captures Elliott Cup
A team from Baylor Law School took home the prestigious Elliott Cup the last weekend in February. Morgan Harkins, Hunter Oliver and Matt Greenberg won the competition with Harkins also being named runner up for Best Speaker. A second Baylor Law team of James Willis, Stephanie Larsen and Allison Rasnick also performed well. The teams are coached by Bill Drabble.
Competition News
Congratulations to the NYU Immigration Law Moot Court Competition Team of Michael Clinton, John Fay & Siobhan Ray with coach Prof Laura Hernandez on its semifinal finish. The team also won Best Brief for Respondents. Congratulations to Hailee Amox, Todd Disher and Leslie Lowe with coach Prof Luke Meier on its quarterfinal finish at the Pace Environmental Law Moot Court Competition. Additionally, Todd won Best Speaker in each pre-break round.
Congratulations to Baylor Law's National Security Law Moot Court Team
Rachel Skinner and Derik Scott were named the winners of the National Security Law Moot Court Competition on Monday, Feb. 20, in Washington, DC. Rachel was named the best overall competitor and won second place speaker award while Derik was named third overall competitor. The team also received the second-place award for best brief. Additionally, the Baylor Law team of Amanda Neugebauer and Tim Keane advanced to the semifinals. This was the first time ever that two teams from the same school competed in the semifinals. The teams were coached by Prof. Bridget Fuselier.
Inaugural Baylor Law Transactional Law Meet Team Wins Regionals
Congratulations to the Transactional Law Meet Team of Lindy Nesbitt, Jeremy Sheng & Mark Shutt, student coach Mackenzie Jackson & coach Trenton Hood on winning first place at the Midwest Regional on Feb. 17 and qualifying for Nationals.
Baylor Law Teams Win NTC Regional Competition
Two Baylor Law School mock trial teams will compete in the National Trial Competition finals after an undefeated run at the regional competition in Dallas. The Baylor teams of Chaille Graft Walraven/ Joel Towner and Mark Walraven/ Steven Lopez competed against teams from law schools in Texas and Louisiana, with the top two teams advancing to the national finals on March 21-24 in Austin. The Baylor teams are coached by adjunct professor Robert Little, who also works for the Waco law firm Naman, Howell, Smith & Lee, PLLC. Additionally, Holly Raines served as evidence coach, and Paul Green and Whitney Keltch put in numerous hours as practice witnesses.
ABA Client Counseling Regional Competition
Congratulations to Kathryn Childress and Andy Jones, who were finalists at the ABA Regional Competition in Lubbock this past weekend and finished third. Also the team of Paul Green and Morgan Harkins tied for 6th, losing a tiebreaker to the eventual champion.
