Moot Court Madness! $100,000 Moot Court Competition For Law Students Nationwide
Paging 2Ls and 3Ls: interested in winning some nice scholarship money?
Michael Allen
Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts from Lateral Link’s team of expert contributors. Michael Allen is the CEO of Lateral Link, Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Co-Managing Principal/Founder at Lateral Link. Based in the Los Angeles office, he focuses exclusively on Partner and General Counsel placements for top firms and companies.
March Madness is here, and we all know what that means: throwing on your Wildcats sweatshirt, screaming at the TV, and praying for the chance to win thousands of dollars to pay off your student loans, if you only pick the right 12 seed upset. You may not have heard yet, but there’s a March pool just for law students, with much better odds of taking home bragging rights for your law school. And you don’t even have to fill out a bracket. Moot Court Madness is here, and it’s worth $100,000 dollars.
Law students are competitive by nature, and many are saddled with debt. Now, instead of hoping to pay off your loans with a dark horse, you can use your finely tuned legal skills and compete against other law students for cold hard cash. Only this money will come to you based not on the random bounce of a basketball, but instead, from a well thought out argument from a finely tuned legal mind: yours!
Lateral Link is assisting with a moot court competition with a staggering $100,000 in prizes: $65,000 for the winner, $25,000 for second place and $10,000 for third place. This Moot Court Madness is open to 2Ls and 3Ls from accredited law schools nationwide. So who will raise the trophy?
I’m betting on my alma mater – Harvard Law School. That said, like with March Madness, you never who will win or lose, and here we are calling out law students from all accredited law schools nationwide – from Yale and FSU to UT and USC. Bring it.
Details of the contest and entry forms can be found here: philshawescholarship.com. There is absolutely no entrance fee to participate; it’s free to all.
Entry forms are requested back by March 30, and briefs of individual students/teams are due by April 20.
Lateral Link is supplying the attorneys who will determine the top 25 contestants. These briefs will then be reviewed by the following panel of judges and legal scholars: Judge Carmen Beauchamp Ciparik, Senior Associate Judge, New York State Court of Appeals (Retired); Justice Melvin Schweitzer, New York Supreme Court (Retired); Professor Alan Dershowitz; and Joseph D. Hansen, Director of Interns, Justice Schweitzer, New York Supreme Court (Retired). The finalists will then engage in oral argument, and the top three winners will be selected.
Best of luck to all who enter, and congrats in advance to the winners. You have represented your school well.
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