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James
Seckinger, Professor of Law,
On
Teaching Trial Advocacy
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Trial
Advocacy at Notre Dame
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Catherine
Wharton '04,
Trial
Advocacy at Notre Dame Law School
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Laura
Leslie '03,
Real World Experience,
Associate, Thelen Reid & Priest, San
Francisco, CA
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Notre
Dame's nationally regarded trial advocacy program provides
students with the opportunity to develop their trial
practice skills and gain litigation experiences through
simulated curricular and cocurricular courtroom exercises.
Law
School faculty with assistance from the National
Institute
for Trial Advocacy (NITA) pioneered the trial advocacy
program. Professor
James Seckinger and adjunct faculty Judge Jeanne
Jourdan and Thomas Singer teach trial advocacy courses
at the Law School. Their past experience
with NITA enriches their classroom teaching at Notre
Dame and provides a unique opportunity for Notre Dame
students. Their expertise has
made Notre Dame one of the nation's leaders in trial
advocacy.
Please
select from the following:
The
Barristers Mock Trial Team
The
Barristers Mock Trial Team is designed for students
who desire in-depth exposure to all aspects of courtroom
practice beyond the regular trial advocacy courses.
Participation as a team member enables students to become
more fully acquainted with the subtleties of trial practice,
and to hone their advocacy and persuasion skills. The
Barristers' trial team has won the ABA's Mock Trial
National title three times in the last several years,
most recently placing both of its teams in the final
round of the national competition which guaranteed Notre
Dame a first and second place finish.
Appellate
Moot Court Programs
Notre Dame law students also may develop their critical
legal writing and speaking skills by participating in
the moot court programs. Under the direction of professors,
practicing attorneys and judges, and law-student coordinators,
students research a legal issue, prepare briefs and
then argue their position before a reviewing panel of
judges.
All
first-year students participate in the Moot Court Appellate
Division program in their second semester. Students
work in teams, in a non-competitive atmosphere, to brief
and argue one appellate case before a panel of judges
that includes faculty, local judges and attorneys, and
third-year law students. Second-year students can further
develop the art of appellate advocacy through a series
of competitive arguments against other teams of second-year
students. The highest-ranking second-year participants
are then invited as third-year students to represent
the Law School in national competitions.
The
Moot Court International Division allows second- and
third-year students to develop the art of oral advocacy
in the increasingly important area of international
law. As with the Moot Court Appellate Division program,
students are selected to be members of the Law School
team on the basis of an intrascholastic competition.
During the spring semester, students prepare for and
participate in the Philip C. Jessup International Law
Moot Court Competition.
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