To all 2L and 3L Students:<\/p>\n
Coaches Danny Schaffzin, Jodi Wilson, and Brigid Welsh invite you to try out for the Law School\u2019s 2016-17 National Trial Team. \u00a0In 2012, the National Trial Team won a regional championship and finished as national semifinalists (final four) among 320 teams entered in the National Trial Competition. \u00a0In 2011 and 2014, the Team reached the NTC regional finals.\u00a0 We are looking for students interested in improving their trial advocacy skills to help us build on this winning tradition.<\/p>\n
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2016-17 Regional Competition<\/u><\/strong>: The\u00a0National Trial Team will compete in the Regional Rounds of the National Trial Competition at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law\u00a0on February 16-18, 2017.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tryout Information Session:<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0An Information Session about the National Trial Team and tryouts will be held on Tuesday, October 18th<\/sup>, at 12:15 p.m., in the Historic Courtroom. \u00a0The Information Session is NOT mandatory.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Tryout Dates and Times:<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0Tryouts will be held on Friday, October 28th<\/sup>, and on Monday, October 31st<\/sup>. \u00a0Each tryout will last 15 minutes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Preparation<\/u><\/strong>: Applicants will be expected to give a closing argument based on State of Lone Star v. Martin<\/strong>, a case file from a previous National Trial Competition. \u00a0The closing argument should be 5-7 minutes in length. \u00a0Applicants can argue for either the State or Defendant. \u00a0Any questions about the substance of the closing argument should be directed to Professor Schaffzin at dschffzn@memphis.edu.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Registration<\/u><\/strong>: Interested students should register for the National Mock Trial Team\u2019s TWEN page (2016-17 National Mock Trial Team\u201d) and sign-up for a tryout slot under the \u201csign-up sheets\u201d tab on the TWEN page.\u00a0 Once you have signed up for a tryout slot, please e-mail a current resume to Professor Schaffzin at dschffzn@memphis.edu<\/a>. \u00a0You can access the tryout case file, State of Lone Star v. Martin,<\/strong> under the \u201cTryouts Case File\u201d tab on the TWEN page.\u00a0 Please register for your National Trial Team tryout by 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 25th<\/sup>.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thank you for your interest, and we look forward to seeing you at the information session on Tuesday, October 18th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To all 2L and 3L Students: Coaches Danny Schaffzin, Jodi Wilson, and Brigid Welsh invite you to try out for the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-affairs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6958,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions\/6958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}