Professor Harry Caldwell, Brittney Lane, Jason Grutter, Stefani Coggins, and Daniel Taylor Finalists • ABA Labor and Employment Law Trial Regional Competition • Los Angeles, California • November 2011
Brittney Lane, and Megan Young Rechberg Champions • 2nd-Place Brief • National Moot Court Regional Competition • San Diego, California • November 2011
said. “Pepperdine’s trial team of Alyssa Ayotte (’07), Mane Sardaryan, Chalak Richards, and Destiny Ramsey successfully defended Pepperdine’s championship from last year in winning the National Civil Trial Competition. This elite competition is by invitation only and consistently has one of the strongest group of teams of any competition in the country. No school save Pepperdine has won this competition more than once, and this was Pepperdine’s third
front (from left): Dan Spitzer, Destiny Ramsey, Stefani Coggins, Daniel Taylor • back: Professors Harry Caldwell, Terry Adamson, Michael Crowe Champions • American Association for Justice National Student Trial Advocacy Regional Competition • Los Angeles, California • March 2012
win and second consecutive win.” Pepperdine’s ADR teams competed in three competitions in California and one international competition in Paris, placing in each competition and making it to the final round in one. In the ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition in Paris, France, Pepperdine was ranked in the top 16 of an international field of 66 teams. “They were engaged as partners and not as competitors,” said 9
professor Maureen Weston, advisor to Pepperdine’s team in the ICC competition in France. “They learned in-depth skills of how to think like lawyers and how to be lawyers. They received feedback from experienced judges. That is tough to get in any other kind of academic environment.”
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