Training #1 (evening): Jan. 21 at 7pm

• Link: https://georgetown.zoom.us/j/95217606043 

• Meeting ID: 952 1760 6043

Registration Closes: Jan. 23 at 5pm

Round One:  Jan. 26 - 29 

Training #2: Jan. 30

Round Two: Feb. 4 - 6

Greenhalgh Tournament: Feb. 23 - 25

Compete in mock trials across the United States.

Learn how a trial works and practice applying the rules of evidence.

Improve public speaking skills and learn how to ask questions effectively.

Ranked #2 in the country by Fordham Law’s Trial Competition Performance Rankings for the past year.

Included victories at several invitational tournaments, as well as advancement to the national rounds of both major national tournaments in the spring semester. 

Invited to prestigious “Top Gun” invitational last summer.

Ranked #7 in the country by Fordham Law’s Trial Competition Performance Rankings for results over the past five years. 

Competitions

• Generally, competitions take place over the course of several days. Teams compete in a handful of preliminary rounds, followed by a break for the top 4 or 8 teams to single-elimination rounds. 

• We compete in many highly competitive invitational tournaments each year.

• National All-Star Bracket Challenge

• National Civil Trial Competition

• Fordham’s Kelly Competition

• Costello National Criminal Law Competition

• Capitol City Challenge 

• We also compete in two national competitions each spring.

• National Trial Competition (NTC)

• American Association for Justice’s Student Advocacy Competition (AAJ)

Two tryout rounds

• Round 1: opening statements + a “think on your feet” exercise designed to assess your extemporaneous speaking

• Round 2: reworked opening statements + cross examination

We will host information and training sessions before each round to provide competitors with the criteria that will be used to evaluate them and other expectations. 

Competitors offered membership after the second round of tryouts will compete in the Greenhalgh tournament.

Generally, we will take anywhere from 16-24 new members each year.