{"id":4831,"date":"2016-02-10T14:54:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T20:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlegalgrounds.law.memphis.edu\/wordpress\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2016-02-10T14:54:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T20:54:01","slug":"be-a-witness-for-the-national-trial-team-this-weekend-final-chance-before-regionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/be-a-witness-for-the-national-trial-team-this-weekend-final-chance-before-regionals\/","title":{"rendered":"BE A WITNESS FOR THE NATIONAL TRIAL TEAM THIS WEEKEND &#8211; FINAL CHANCE BEFORE REGIONALS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">As it prepares for the upcoming National Trial Competition, the Law School&#8217;s National Trial Team is in need of witnesses for its final\u00a0practice trials this weekend (February 13th and 14th). \u00a0The practice trials are held in the Historic Courtroom and will start with witness prep at\u00a01:15 p.m. each day. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">In addition to helping the National Trial Team ready for competition, participation as a witness is a wonderful introduction to and\/or refresher in oral advocacy, trial practice and procedure, and the rules of evidence. \u00a0This year&#8217;s case, Fortenberry v. Thompson, involves comparative negligence claims arising out of a airplane crash that killed the plaintiff&#8217;s husband. \u00a0The complete case file can be found here: <a id=\"LPlnk497276\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tyla.org\/tyla\/assets\/File\/NTC%202016%20Regional%20Problem.pdf\">http:\/\/www.tyla.org\/tyla\/assets\/File\/NTC%202016%20Regional%20Problem.pdf<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">If you are interested in assisting the Trial Team as a witness, or otherwise have any questions, please contact Professor Schaffzin (<a href=\"mailto:dschffzn@memphis.edu\/(215)\">dschffzn@memphis.edu<\/a> or 215.380.0969) as soon as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Thank you in advance for your assistance!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it prepares for the upcoming National Trial Competition, the Law School&#8217;s National Trial Team is in need of witnesses for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4831","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\/4831","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4832,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions\/4832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}