{"id":22383,"date":"2022-01-07T14:39:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T20:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/?p=22383"},"modified":"2022-01-07T14:39:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T20:39:19","slug":"national-trial-team-seeking-volunteer-witnesses-1-14-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/national-trial-team-seeking-volunteer-witnesses-1-14-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"National Trial Team seeking Volunteer Witnesses (1\/14 deadline)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The UofM National Trial Team is required to provide 4 volunteer witnesses for its virtual regional competition in February.\u00a0\u00a0Volunteer witnesses will get to experience mock trial at the highest level.\u00a0 This can be very helpful in preparing for the in-school mock trial competition or trial advocacy classes.\u00a0 For 1Ls and 2Ls, it would be a great way to find out more about our mock trial team before trying out next year.\u00a0 Each volunteer must commit to being available for the following competition rounds, including a 15-minute witness prep period before each round:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Prelim Round 1 &#8211; Friday, February 18 at 2:00 pm Central<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Prelim Round 2 &#8211; Saturday, February 19 at 9:00 am Central<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Prelim Round 3 &#8211; Saturday, February 19 at 2:00 pm Central<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Semifinal Rounds (8 teams = 4 trials) &#8211; Sunday, February 20 at 9:00 am Central<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\"> (only if UofM team advances)<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Final Rounds (4 teams = 2 trials) &#8211; Sunday, February 20, at 2:00 pm Central<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\"> (only if UofM team advances)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Any volunteer witnesses would be welcome\u00a0to join us for\u00a0any of our practice trials on\u00a0Zoom, each Saturday leading up to competition, and especially for our dress rehearsals on Zoom the weekend before competition (2\/11 &amp; 2\/12).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If you have any questions or want to volunteer, please contact one of the team members (Zach Monroe, Danielle Husseini, Chris Jones, Melba Martin, or Diana Pope) or Coach Brigid Welsh (<\/span><a href=\"mailto:Brigid.Welsh@memphis.edu\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Brigid.Welsh@memphis.edu<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">).\u00a0 The team must submit the names and contact information for volunteer witnesses by Friday, January 14<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UofM National Trial Team is required to provide 4 volunteer witnesses for its virtual regional competition in February.\u00a0\u00a0Volunteer witnesses will&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mock-trial"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22385,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22383\/revisions\/22385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}