NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION MOOT COURT The tradition continues. For the third consecutive year, a KU Law team advanced to the national championship round of the National NALSA Moot Court Competition. Megan Carroll and Bill Madden placed second in the 2017 competition March 4-5 at the University of California-Los Angeles. Carroll also won the award for second-best oral advocate out of 128 competitors.
NATIONAL TRANSACTIONAL LAWMEET A team of KU Law students captured the Best Draft Award at the national championship rounds of the 2017 Transactional LawMeet. Aspiring transactional lawyers Jake Ediger, Justine Koehle and Alison Kryzer competed at nationals March 31 in New York City after winning a regional finalist title in Kansas City, Missouri. Their purchase agreement for the buyer’s side of the competition’s mock business transaction was deemed best in the nation. KU Law Professors Ken Lynn, L’81 (bottom left), and Webb Hecker prepared the Transactional LawMeet team for competition. Andy White / KU Marketing Communications (opposite page)
MORE SUCCESS FROM THE 2016-2017 SEASON Nick Bjornson and Brian Lynn finished 3rd in the ABA Section of Taxation Law Student Tax Challenge. Will Easley and Bill Madden took 3rd place at the FBA’s Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition. Ashley Billam and Sam LaRoque took 1st place in the regional rounds of the National Moot Court Competition.
Craig Boyd, Elizabeth Hanus and Taylor Ray were Transactional LawMeet regional semifinalists in Dallas, where they also won the prize for best draft agreement. Ben Stringer, Eric Wilson and David Hammack ascended to the regional semifinals of the Texas Young Lawyers Association National Trial Competition.
Skyler Davenport and Nathan Kakazu advanced to the regional semifinals of the ABA’s National Appellate Advocacy Competition. CJ Boyd and Dalton Mott advanced to the quarterfinals of the National Criminal Procedure Moot Court Tournament.
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