Student Spotlight Archive

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Good luck to the National Moot Court Team: Andrew Guthrie, Sameer Karim and Terah Moxley and coach Rory Ryan.

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Good luck to the ABA Labor Law Mock Trial Teams: Cassie Hoyer, Nathan Cash, Jessica Frankland, Pete Kerr, Wes LeRouax, Jennifer Salim, Caleena Svatek and Ashley Yearick and coaches Jeremy Counseller and Dan Tilly.

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Congratulations to the BLS flag football champs Derek Cook, Bryan Bufkin, Chris Littell, Katie Klein, Andrew Guthrey, Anne Idsal, Jonathan Silko, Christian Brown, John Litzler, Mikey Bernick, James Brown and Patrick Sheridan

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Congratulations to the following students, who have successfully written on to the Baylor Law Review: Jesse Davis, Wesley LeRouax, Andrea Mehta and Luke Mott.

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Congrats to Baylor Law students Jennifer Salim & Wes LeReaux, winners of the Tex Ad Law Moot Court Competition in Austin.
Also, Jesse Davis and Jay Chou made it to the semi-finals. Jessica Frankland and Bryan Button had four great rounds. Kathy Serr coached with invaluable help from Prof. Ron Beal.

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Good luck to Ed Cloutman, James Hatchitt, Ronnie Turner and Elizabeth Chermel and coach Robert Little at the Tournament of Champions Invitational.

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Congratulations to student Nikki Laing--one of the top 10 scorers on the Texas CPA exam.

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Good luck to the Stetson Pretrial Team: Abigail Nettles, Phil Haines, Bobbi Ingram & James Ray and coaches Jim Underwood and Alex Bell.

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Congratulations to Eric Policastro, recipient of the AAJ Trial Advocacy Scholarship

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Congratulations Angela Hackett Buchanan, recipient of the Graduating Senior Scholarship.

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Congratulations to the new officers of Women's Legal Society:

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Congratulations to newest Baylor Law Moot Court Team John Litzler and Jeff Parks, who will compete in the Tulane Tournament.

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Moot Court Competition Teams
Congratulations to the following students, who have been selected for competition teams from an incredibly deep pool of veterans and 40 new applicants:

National Moot Court Competition
National Criminal Procedure Competition Administrative Law Competition

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Congratulations to National Champions

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Congratulations to National Semifinalists who took third-place at the 2009 AAJ Student Trial Advocacy Competition

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Photos from the Student Award Ceremony Available on the Baylor Law Facebook page

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Good Luck to the National Trial Competition teams of Joel Bailey/Eric Policastro and Kendall Cockrell/Tim Goines, evidence coach Crystal Y'Barbo and coaches Jerry Powell and Robert Little at competition March 25-28.

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Congratulations to Timothy Goines, recipient of the Graduating Senior Scholarship for the Spring 2009 quarter.

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Congratulations to the AAJ regional winners and runners up: Ed Cloutman, Tom Jacob, Blaire Knox and James Hatchitt; runners-up Abby Nettles, Carson Runge, Kaye Johnson and Justin Smith. Coaches Jim Wren, Kathy Serr, evidence coach Amber Steiss and student coach Alex Bell.

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Congratulations to teammates Robert Lopez and Sean Hicks and coach Vik Deivayanayagam, winners of the ABA Regional Client Counseling Competition.

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Congratulations to Baylor Mock Trial teams Joel Bailey/Eric Policastro and Kendall Cockrell/Tim Goines, evidence coach Crystal Y’Barbo, and coaches Gerald Powell and Robert Little on winning the National Trial Competition Regional Tournament. On to Nationals.

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Congratulations to Ed Cloutman, Brian Garrett and John Hardage, who made it to the Elite Eight at the National Moot Court Competition in New York City.

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Congratulations to Alex Bell and Andrew Petersen with Ronnie Turner as a witness, who made the quarterfinals of the George Mason Mock Trial Tournament.

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Congratulations Tom Jacob, winner of the Top Gun Competition.

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Congratulations to Eric Policastro for winning the Best Advocate Award in the preliminary rounds of the Tournament of Champions Trial Competition.

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Congratulations to Ed Cloutman, Brian Garrett and John Hardage and coach Kathy Serr
Winners of the regional tournament of the National Moot Court Competition. The team will advance to the national competition in New York City in early February.

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Congratulations to the following students who won Best Brief Awards for the Fall 2008 Dawson & Sodd Moot Court Competition:

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Congratulations Zeb Fish on receiving the Graduating Senior Scholarship for the Winter 2008 quarter.

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Good Luck to the Baylor ABA Labor Law Mock Trial Teams:

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SBA Winter/Spring 2008/09 OFFICERS
Congratulations to the following candidates who were selected to serve as SBA officers for the upcoming term. Thanks to all the students who came out to vote. We had a great turnout!

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The following students have been selected for membership on the Baylor Moot Court Team


Congratulations to these students, who along with current members of the Baylor Moot Court Team will compete for Baylor next spring.

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Best of Luck to those who will compete at the 2008 National Trial Advocacy Competition Oct. 22-26

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2008 Dawson & Sodd Moot Court Competition Winners

1st Place:  Will King and Nick Sarokhanian
2nd Place:  James Ray and Beth Chermel

Semifinalists:

Top 10 Speakers:

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Congratulations Ed Cloutman , recipient of the Top Advocate award in the Lone Star Classic Invitational Mock Trial Tournament. Ed also tied for first in the categories of Best Cross-Examination and Best Direct-Examination.

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Congratulations to the Baylor Administrative Law Moot Court Team!

The team of Stephen Pocsik and Melanie Fry won first place at the competition held this past weekend in Austin at the State Office of Administrative Hearings and in the Austin Court of Appeals. Steve was named Best Speaker and Melanie was 4th Best Speaker. The other Baylor teams of Amy Foster & Patrick Scott and Lauren Braddy & Cassie Hoyer were instrumental in the successful outcome. This is the third straight year that a Baylor team has won the competition.

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The following people have successfully written on to the Baylor Law Review. Congratulations.

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The following students will compete in the 2008 St. Mary's Law School Lone Star Classic, Oct. 8-11, 2008, in San Antonio

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Congratulations to the following students, who will be competing in moot court and mock trial tournaments the first weekend in October.

2008 Mack Kidd Moot Court Competition, Austin, Texas, Oct.2-4, 2008
Stetson Law School Nat'l Pretrial Advocacy Competition, Gulfport, FL, Oct. 2-5, 2008

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2008 Moot Court Teams Announced    

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Baylor Moot Court Team - Results of Tryout

Congratulations to the following new members of the Baylor Moot Court Team:
These students will join current members of the Baylor Moot Court Team to represent the school in two interscholastic moot court competitions next spring. The composition of those teams is still a work in progress. Details will be provided when available.

Thanks to everyone who tried out. Our long-running advocacy success is a natural consequence of both a deep pool of talented students and a consistently enthusiastic response to our fall and spring tryouts.

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Congratulations to the team of Angela Hackett & Gavin Smith, who were announced the winners of this year’s Dawson & Sodd Moot Court Competition.

In second place was the team of Brent Ivy & Jake McDonald. Semifinalists were the teams of Dan Keesee & Clay Schramm and Tim Goines & Ashlea Byrum.

Top 10 Speakers were:

Members of the top 16 teams were:

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Newest members of Baylor Law Review announced.

The following students have successfully written on to Baylor Law Review.

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Four Baylor Law students will compete at the 19th annual University of San Diego School of Law National Criminal Procedure Tournament on Oct. 18-20.

Bradley Thomas and Kimberly Schroeder while comprise one team while Rory Brewton and Rebecca Hild will make up the other Baylor team. Professors Rory Ryan and Bridget Fuselier will serve as team coaches.

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Matt Acosta, Matt Cole, Niti Dalal, Joe Rivera and Cameron Weldon will compete at the 18th annual Tournament of Champions.

The mock trial tournament will be held at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy Education Center in Louisville, Colorado, on Oct. 25-27. Each year, 16 teams are invited to participate in the tournament. The invitations are based on a three-year performance record at the National Trial Competition and the ATLA National Student Trial Advocacy Competition, and performances at prior Tournament of Champions competition.

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Stephen Baker, Desmond Cooks, Heather Kanny and Christi Smith will compete at the 17th Annual Cathy Bennett National Criminal Trial Competition.

Sponsored by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Oct. 17-20 in Key West, Fla.

Britt Clark, Aaron Mutnick, Chad Newman, Casie Rivas and Dan Stokes will compete at the Lone Star Classic mock trial competition from Nov. 8-10 in San Antonio.

Now in its seventh year, the tournament is sponsored by St. Mary’s University School of Law.

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