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Chicago-Kent College of Law advances to the ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition finals
CHICAGO--March 5, 2009--The Chicago-Kent College of Law team of Erin Duncomb, Amanda Hillmann and Allison Sues has advanced to the national finals of the American Bar Association's National Appellate Advocacy Competition after defeating the University of Florida in the regional tournament held February 26 to 28 at the Edward W. Brooke Courthouse in Boston.
Chicago-Kent students Erin Duncomb, Amanda Hillmann and Allison Sues will compete in the tournament finals of the National Appellate Advocacy Competition to be held April 2 to 4, 2009, in Chicago.
The team is coached by third-year Chicago-Kent students Betsy Gates and Craig Stern. This is the second time in three years that a Chicago-Kent team has advanced to the tournament's finals, which will be held April 2 to 4 in Chicago.
Chicago-Kent faced teams from Chapman University, Emory University and the University of Cincinnati in preliminary rounds and defeated the University of Oklahoma in the semifinals before beating the University of Florida in the final round. The students argued a hypothetical appeal to the United States Supreme Court related to the War Powers Act.
The National Appellate Advocacy Competition, sponsored by the American Bar Association's Law Student Division, involved more than 190 teams from 110 law schools throughout the United States. Twenty-four teams will compete in the finals.
Winning Chicago-Kent team member Erin Duncomb, a second-year student, earned her undergraduate degree in business administration with a major in marketing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Teammate Amanda Hillmann, also a second-year student, is a graduate of Loyola University-Chicago with a double major in women's studies and political science. Teammate Allison Sues, another second-year student, graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she majored in print journalism.
Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. Chicago-Kent's advocacy programs have a tradition of excellence. In 2008, Chicago-Kent became the only law school ever to win the National Trial Competition and the National Moot Court Competition in the same year. This year, Chicago-Kent became the first law school in more than 30 years to win back-to-back championships in the National Moot Court Competition.
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