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Chicago-Kent College of Law wins the 2009 Midwest Moot Court Competition
Chicago-Kent captures its third consecutive best brief and top oral advocate awards
CHICAGO--November 18, 2009--Third-year Chicago-Kent students Jocelyn Floyd and Maris Mapolski won the 2009 Appellate Lawyers Association Midwest Moot Court Competition held November 6 and 7 in Chicago. Chicago-Kent also won the competition's Best Oral Advocate and Best Brief awards.
Standing (L-R): The Honorable William E. Holdridge, Illinois Appellate Court, Third District; the Honorable David T. Prosser, Jr., of the Wisconsin Supreme Court; and the Honorable Richard P. Goldenhersh, Illinois Appellate Court, Fifth District. Seated (L-R): 2009 Midwest Moot Court Competition winners Jocelyn Floyd '10 and Maris Mapolski '10."This is Chicago-Kent's fourth consecutive win in the ALA Competition and the third straight year that we've swept the top brief and oral argument prizes," said Professor Kent D. Streseman, director of the law school's Ilana Diamond Rovner Program in Appellate Advocacy. "Jocelyn Floyd will graduate in May as one of the few Moot Court Honor Society members to go undefeated in interscholastic moot court competitions."
The Chicago-Kent team of Jocelyn Floyd '10 and Maris Mapolski '10 won the overall competition and the Best Brief award. Ms. Floyd also won the Best Oral Advocate Award; Ms. Mapolski won the Third Best Oral Advocate Award.
Winning team member Jocelyn Floyd, an Honors Scholar and member of the Chicago-Kent Law Review, is a graduate of Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, with a double major in English and French language and literature. Ms. Floyd was a member of the Chicago-Kent team that won the 2009 Evans A. Evans Constitutional Law Moot Competition. Teammate Maris Mapolski, who is also an Honors Scholar, completed her undergraduate education in fine art from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
In this year's competition, students argued a case involving issues resulting from allegedly wrongful communications posted on social network sites. At issue was whether a user may be brought to justice for posting such communications whether a legal cause of action exists for which the complaining party may be granted relief. Chicago-Kent advanced past Cardozo Law School in the semifinal round before defeating Texas Tech University in the competition finals to win a fourth consecutive championship.
Judging the final round of competition were the Honorable William E. Holdridge, Illinois Appellate Court, Third District; the Honorable David T. Prosser, Jr., of the Wisconsin Supreme Court; and the Honorable Richard P. Goldenhersh, Illinois Appellate Court, Fifth District.
Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. Chicago-Kent's trial advocacy teams have won numerous individual student honors and regional and national competitions, including the 1988, 2007 and 2008 National Trial Competition championships. In 2008, Chicago-Kent became the first law school to win both the National Trial Competition and the National Moot Court Competition in the same year. In 2009, Chicago-Kent successfully defended its championship in the National Moot Court Competition. In addition, U.S. News and World Report this year ranked Chicago-Kent's trial advocacy program among the top five in the country.
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