May 18, 2021
Stetson University College of Law won our inaugural ABA Competitions Champion honors in 2018, the first year we started tracking law schools' performance in our four practical skills competitions. Now, they've broken Texas Tech University School of Law's two-year reign to regain their crown.
April 14, 2021
There can be only one. And last weekend in “Chicago,” the
final 24 teams in the 2021 ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition competed
virtually to see who would take the title in this year’s moot court battle.
In the end, the team of Taylor Holley, Alicia Mpande,
March 25, 2021
The team of Katheryn Maldonado and Nick Armah from William & Mary Law School won the national title in the 2021 ABA Law Student Division Client Counseling Competition on Saturday, March 20, 2021.
Maldonado and Armah won over the team of Brennan Collins and Malory-Anne
February 08, 2021
The team from California Western School of Law, Francis Carlota and
Jonathan Gonzalez, won the 2021 ABA Negotiation Competition, held on
February 6, 2021.
The Mitchell Hamline School of Law team of Austyn Boothe and Daniel Sheikhan came in second place.
January 27, 2021
Fordham University School of Law's team of Joshua Zelen, Margaret Revera, Catherine Young, and Perry Zirpoli took the top spot at the 2021 ABA Arbitration Competition on Jan. 23.
This year's topic was Contracts and Warranties.
Fordham Law's team designation was Team
April 29, 2020
The American Bar Association has named Texas Tech University School of Law the 2019-2020 ABA Competitions Champion for the second year in a row. Congratulations Texas Tech University School of Law!
The Competitions Champion is won by the school who earns the most points
April 14, 2020
Congratulations to the National Client Counseling Champions, Quinnipiac University School of Law, Megan Spicer and Brandy Parry.
This year, the Client Counseling National Competition was held completely virtually. Competitors used a combination of prerecorded sessions, written statements, and live video calls to compete. Quinnipiac
April 08, 2020
Congratulations
to Allison Kruschke, Hannah Buzolits, and Jordan Giles of Michigan State
University College of Law for winning the 2019-2020 National Appellate Advocacy
Best Brief Award.
This year, the ABA Law Student Division was able to complete the written portion of the competition, and we
February 10, 2020 The Southwestern Law School team of Vanessa Barnett and Tamar Chobanian won the 2020 ABA Negotiation Competition, besting the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law duo of Emilie Alexandra McConnachie and Conner Collins on Feb. 8 at the ABA Headquarters in Chicago.
January 27, 2020
Texas Tech University School of Law won the 2020 ABA Arbitration Competition on Saturday, Jan. 25 at ABA Headquarters in Chicago.
This year's topic was Wage and Employment Law.
The team of Drake Pamilton, Patricia Cabrera-Sopo, Emily Fouts, Michael Samaniego
January 01, 2020 Lawyers who participated in moot court and other competitions explain how they’re still benefitting in their practice.
October 15, 2019
Self-driving cars, literature produced by computers,
autonomous military armaments, robotic child companions – and more – are
already here. These developments and those to come all pose important
legal issues, some of which are unprecedented. Luckily though, you don’t have to be a Silicon Valley
wiz kid to enter this essay competition.
August 29, 2019
Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the right for women to vote became law in the USA. And the 19th Amendment is the topic of the DC Bar's writing competition.
The D.C. Bar Communities Office is presenting this year's competition. The winner will receive
May 17, 2019
Texas Tech made its first NCAA Final Four appearance in basketball this April. By then, Texas Tech University School of Law had already done all it needed to do to win the crown of 2018-2019 ABA Competitions Champion.
The Texas Tech law student teams made
April 15, 2019
There can be only one. And last weekend in Chicago, the final 24 teams in the 2019 ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition gathered to see who would take the title in this year's moot court battle.
In the end, the team of Kyle Gardner, Haley
March 30, 2019
Tatiana Deberry and Katie Webb of The Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University won the 2018-2019 ABA Law Student Division Client Counseling Competition at Baylor Law School in Waco, Texas on March 23.
The pair of 3Ls beat out a field of 108 teams from 69 law schools.
March 13, 2019
The six regional rounds of the 2019 ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition (NAAC) are in the books. Here are the results and the teams who will be coming to Chicago from April 11-13 to compete for the national title in our moot court competition.
February 11, 2019
Texas Tech University School of Law's Taylor Calvert won the 2019 ABA Law Student Division National Negotiation Competition on Saturday, Feb. 9 at ABA Headquarters in Chicago. This year’s topic was employment law.
January 28, 2019
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law won the 2019 ABA Law Student Division National Arbitration Competition on Saturday, Jan. 26 at ABA Headquarters in Chicago. This year's topic was personal injury law.
For photos from the competition, visit our Facebook
September 27, 2018 The Center for Legal and Court Technology (CLCT) is pleased to announce its second annual writing competition dedicated to innovative legal issues likely to arise from Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, and/or related technologies.
August 29, 2018 Traditional law school courses can be an effective way to learn legal doctrine, but they don’t teach much about law practice. Joining a law school competition team can be a terrific way to learn those skills and have fun in the process.
May 23, 2018 The NCAA has its March Madness and its BCS National Championship. Now, for the first time, the American Bar Association has tallied the results from its four practical skills competitions for law students – and it's time to announce the first-ever ABA Competitions Champion.
A total of 1,300 students at 156
March 19, 2018 The finals of the 2017-2018 ABA Law Student Division Client Counseling Competition were held last weekend at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C. The winners were Julie Holdener and Benjamin Paulsen of the University of Illinois College of Law.
January 22, 2018 Drake University Law School won the 2018 ABA Law Student Division National Arbitration Competition on Saturday, Jan. 20 at ABA Headquarters in Chicago. This year's topic was intellectual property and trade secrets.
For photos from the competition, visit our Facebook page, ABA for Law Students. Here is the complete
September 21, 2017 Cars that drive themselves, fridges that tell you calorie counts, devices that puts in an Amazon order with a simple voice command. AI, Machine Learning, and the Internet of Things are changing our world every day and creating new legal issues as well. Luckily though, you don’t have to be