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PRESS RELEASE
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Chicago-Kent wins National Trial Competition's Midwest Regional Championship
Mark Griffin also wins Best Advocate Award
CHICAGO–February 15, 2008--Mark Griffin and Joshua Jones, third-year students at Chicago-Kent College of Law, are the winners of the Region 8 championship of the National Trial Competition, the premier trial advocacy tournament in the United States. Griffin and Jones defeated four teams from Illinois and Indiana law schools during the regional contest held January 31 to February 3 in Chicago.
Chicago-Kent students Mark Griffin '08 and Joshua Jones '08 are the Region 8 champions of the National Trial Competition. Griffin also took home the competition's Best Advocate Award.
Mark Griffin also received the regional competition’s best oral advocate award. The Chicago-Kent team is coached by retired Illinois Appellate Court Justice David A. Erickson, attorney Margaret Firnstein of Smith Amundsen, Cook County Circuit Court Judge Demetrios Kottaras, and Chicago-Kent alumnus George Domas, who was a member of the law school’s first trial ad team in 1981.
Chicago-Kent defeated teams from Northwestern, Loyola and Notre Dame before defeating a second team from Loyola in the final round judged by Judge Ronald A. Guzman of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, and Justice Thomas R. Fitzgerald of the Illinois Supreme Court.
This is the second consecutive year and the 19th time in the past 26 years that Chicago-Kent has won the regional championship. Griffin and Jones will go on to compete for the national title March 26 to 29 in Austin, Tex. Jones was a member of the Chicago-Kent team that won the national title in 2007.
More than 1,000 law students from nearly 300 teams representing 147 U.S. law schools participate in the annual competition, which is sponsored by the American College of Trial Lawyers, the American Bar Association, and the Texas Young Lawyers Association.
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