Florida’s Stetson University College of Law teams took home the eighth annual National Civil Trial Competition in California and the inaugural Navy JAG Corps National Moot Court Competition in this month.
Stetson’s trial team of Olesea Collins, Derrick Connell, Allana Forte and Katelyn Knaak competed against teams from 15 other law schools around the country to win the National Civil Trial Competition on Nov. 14 at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. Connell was named Best Advocate in both the preliminary and final rounds, a first for the competition. Stetson Professors Roberta Flowers and Lee Coppock coached the winning team to victory. More than 100 members of the Los Angeles legal community volunteered to judge the competition, including a U.S. magistrate judge and Los Angeles Superior Court judges. The competition was sponsored by the law firm of Greene Broillet & Wheeler.
Students Joseph Etter, Larry Miccolis, Amie Patty and Brice Zoecklein were named the champions of the Navy JAG Corps 2009 National Moot Court Competition at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville on Nov. 14. Twenty-three teams from law schools across the nation competed, including Georgetown, Harvard and Yale. Stetson Professor Charles Rose, Faculty Moot Court adviser Professor Stephanie Vaughan and Professor Brooke Bowman helped prepare the winning team, which argued before a group of jurists that included the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, federal district court judges, the Chief Judge of the Department of the Navy, judges from the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals, and judges from the Navy, Army and Marine trial courts. The competition was hosted by Region Legal Service Office Southeast.
These wins bring Stetson’s Fall 2009 advocacy championship count to five. Earlier this semester, Stetson teams came in first and second place in the E. Earl Zehmer Workers’ Compensation Moot Court Competition. Stetson also won the John Marshall Law School International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy Law and the Veterans Law Appellate Advocacy Competition.
