Moot Court Team Successes

Left to right: Professor Regina Burch, Brian Katz, Christina Papa and Caroline Koehler

Corporate Law Moot Court Team Wins Best Brief

Congratulations to Corporate Law Moot Court Team members Brian Katz and Christina Papa for winning the Donald E. Pease Award for Best Corporate Brief for Appellant in the 2009 Ruby R. Vale Interschool Corporate Moot Court Competition.  The team proceeded to compete through the quarter finals finishing among the top 8 teams in the national competition hosted by Widener University School of Law. The team was coached by Professor Regina Burch and Adjunct Faculty Members Adam F. Saad, L’07 and Brandon A. Borgmann, L’07.  The team was accompanied by fellow Caroline Koehler.

Congratulations to the International Criminal Court team for its impressive showing at the International Criminal Court Moot Competition at Pace University Law School. Team members Bryan Pritikin, Renee Karnes and Jennifer Routte performed outstandingly in the three grueling, three-hour-long preliminary rounds, coming within a hundred-thousandth of a point of advancing to the final rounds. The team’s performance was greatly enhanced by the assistance of its fellows, Timothy Cline and Tyler Kahler and coach Professor Dan Turack.

The team won “Best Defense Brief” for one of its written submissions. Jennifer Routte was recognized as “Best Oralist” for her early rounds, in which she argued against teams from Emory and Yale.  Brian Pritikin and Renee Karnes were also highly praised for their oral advocacy skills.

The ICC Moot Competition replicates proceedings of the seven-year-old International Criminal Court, which hears cases involving war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.  The competition is especially challenging because none of the governing case law is available in standard legal research databases and instead, requires participants must research exclusively on the ICC’s website.  The competition requires teams to prepare arguments on behalf of each of three parties – the prosecutor, the defense and the victims’ representatives – on five distinct issues!

International Criminal Moot Court Team Wins Best Brief; Routte Takes Best Oralist Award

Sports Law Moot Court Team Places Third

Capital’s Sports Law Moot Court Team of Christopher Camboni, Justin Hunt and Jim Tebbutt placed third among 38 law schools in the 2009 Tulane Mardi Gras Invitational National Sports Law Moot Court Competition held in New Orleans! Capital advanced to the semi-finals and lost by a score of 2:1. The team was assisted by fellow Mark Weiker and coached by Professor Dan Turack.

Capital University Law School's 2009 Adoption Law Moot Court Team of Mary-Nienaber-Foster and Rebekah Meister competed in the National Adoption Moot Court Competition held at the Ohio State and sponsored by the National Center for Adoption Law and Policy. In total, 26 teams from 16 law schools from around the country competed and presented oral arguments on the topic of Interstate Placement: Challenges to Timely Permanency.   

Given the strength of Mary and Rebekah’s arguments as both the petitioner and respondent in three preliminary rounds, they advanced to the second day of competition

The team had invaluable assistance from its two moot court fellows Josh Johnson and Brittany Nascone and coach Professor Lisa Eschleman, L’ 87.

Child Welfare and Adoption Law Moot Court Team Advances to Second Day

Left to right: Josh Carter, Diana Hawkins, Phil Fulton, Sarah Kwasigroch and Tony Eufinger

Philip J. Fulton Law Office National Moot Court Team (Fall Team) Advances to Quarter-Finals; Hawkins Wins Best Oralist Award

The 2008 Philip J. Fulton Law Office National Moot Court Team competed in the regional rounds of the New York City Bar National Moot Court Competition held in Lansing, Michigan. The team of Josh Carter, Tony Eufinger, Diana Hawkins and Sarah Kwasigroch demonstrated exceptional oral advocacy and brief writing skills.

Diana Hawkins earned a perfect oral advocacy score and received the Best Oralist Award in the preliminary rounds for the first day of the competition. One of the competition judges, an appellate judge in Michigan for 30 years, said of Diana, that he had seen no one better in his entire career and that she “blew it out of the ballpark.”’ Diana and her partner, Josh Carter, produced one of the top five briefs among the 19 teams competing.

Tony Eufinger and Sarah Kwasigroch excelled in the preliminary rounds and advanced to the quarter-finals in the second day of the competition before losing an extremely close argument.

Team coaches were Professors Chuck Cohen and Risa Lazaroff. Yazen Alami, Josh Johnson and Joey Smith served as team fellows.

The spring team of the Philip J. Fulton Law Office National Moot Court Team competed in the regional rounds of the National Appellate Advocacy Competition (NAAC). The NAAC is sponsored by the American Bar Association and is one of the most prestigious moot court competitions in the country. 

Capital was well represented by our two teams: Nicole Pendleton and Mitch Tobias; and Patrick Jones and Annie Marsico .  Nicole and Mitch advanced out of the preliminary rounds of the competition.

The teams were assisted by three moot court fellows: Jason Block, Ryan Elliott, and James Kresge . Team coaches were Professors Janet Blocher and Scott Anderson.    

Philip J. Fulton Law Office National Moot Court Team (Spring Team) Advances to Quarter-Finals

Environmental Law Moot Court Team

Joe Romaker and Adam Bragg had a strong performance at the Pace National Environmental Moot Court Competition. Joe and Brian gave persuasive arguments and garnered consistent praise from the judges and mastered a complex and difficult moot court problem. The team was assisted by fellows Brian Ballinger and Paige Kohn and coached by Professors Dennis Hirsch and Susan Ashbrook

Matt Koppitch, Margeaux Kimbrough, and Matt Nierman, along with fellows, Katie Rings and James Sweeney, traveled to Chicago for the Jessup Moot Court competition. The team mastered a complex, four-issue international law problem and won two of their four rounds. The team was coached by Professor Jeffrey Snapp.  

Jessup International Law Moot Court Team

Labor and Employment Law Moot Court Team

The Labor and Employment Law Moot Court Team of Carolyn Gutowski, Scott McKinley, and Nick Owen competed in the Robert F. Wagner National Labor and Employment Moot Court Competition at New York Law School. Aikaterini Paragiou provided invaluable assistance as the fellow to the team. The team was coached by Professor Floyd Weatherspoon.