Mock Trial
The Mock Trial Competition Team Program trains students to become excellent trial lawyers by teaching them the art of persuasive advocacy in the courtroom. It also teaches them how to effectively apply the Federal Rules of Evidence in the Courtroom to win pretrial motions and make appropriate objections in trial.
Each year students compete in regional and national trial competitions where they act as trial counsel, representing a “client” through all phases of litigation, including pretrial motions, opening and closing statements, direct and cross examination. The cases cover both civil to criminal, and the trial fact patterns are often loosely based on real trials past or present.
Students are eligible to try out for a team after the end of thier first academic school year. Thus, second year and third year day and second, third and fourth year evening students are eligible to try out to become a member of the McGeorge Mock Trial Competition team. Try-outs are held at the beginning of the school year, generally during the second week of classes. Fact patterns and sign-up sheets are located in the Courtroom building.
During their first year of law school, all students are also eligible to compete in the Ben Franz First Year Mock Trial Competition. The top winners receive a scholarship and have their names embossed on a plaque displayed in the Courtroom Trophy case.
For more information on Mock Trial, contact 
Professor Cary Bricker.
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