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Rules of the 2009 AAJ Student Trial Advocacy Competition
The competition is open to law schools nationwide. Each law school may enter up to two teams, each team consisting of four law students. PLEASE NOTE that your second team will not be officially registered until one team from each law school has entered the mock trial competition. Then the second team will be registered on a first-come, first-served basis, until all the team slots are filled. Teams remaining after the competition is full will be put on a waiting list. If spots open up due to teams dropping out of the competition, those spots will be offered to the waitlisted teams on a first-come, first-served basis. If you register two teams and only one team is able to participate, you will receive a refund for that team.
Each school may use its own method to select its trial team. However, for a student to be eligible, he or she must be enrolled for a J.D. degree and be a student member of AAJ. Students who graduate in December 2008 are eligible to participate only if the competition counts toward their credits for graduation and they will not be admitted to practice prior to March, 2009.
Sixteen (16) teams are assigned to fourteen (14) regions. Only the top team from each region will advance to the National Finals in West Palm Beach, FL.
AAJ's mock trial cases are always civil cases and tend to deal with products liability, personal injury, or medical malpractice/negligence issues. Teams will be judged on their skills in case preparation, opening statements, use of facts, the examination of lay and expert witnesses, and closing arguments. There will be no written exercise.
The winning team and their coach will receive free airfare, hotel accommodations, and registration to the 2009 AAJ Annual Convention in San Francisco, CA, July 25-29, 2009.
