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| 1. Can I enter the competition if I am matriculated part-time at my law school? |
Yes. Team members MUST be matriculated in a full- or part-time Juris Doctor (J.D.) program in the law school they represent. Proof of current registration in law school for each team member MUST be attached to each team's entry form. No team member may hold a law degree from a law school in the United States. Please refer to the Official Rules for more information.
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| 2. Can an LL.M student enter the competition? |
No. An LL.M student who has obtained his/her Juris Doctorate degree may not enter the competition. However, if a student is pursuing a joint JD/LLM program, he/she may enter the competition.
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| 3. Is my school allowed to enter more than one team in the competition? How many team members are allowed on a team? |
Each school may enter up to TWO teams. The competition is open to teams of law school students from any United States law school so long as graduation from such school renders its students eligible for admission to a state bar in the United States.
Teams may consist of two, three or four students from the same school.
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| 4. Is a team allowed to replace team members after submitting the team’s entry form? |
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A team is allowed to replace team members up until the filing of briefs on January 7, 2013, 11:59 pm U.S. Eastern Time. After this date, the team must receive consent from the Lefkowitz Committee by emailing lefkowitz@inta.org in order to replace team members.
A team replacing team members MUST submit proof of matriculation for new team members.
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| 5. Is there a registration fee to enter the Competition? |
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There is no registration fee to enter the competition but teams are responsible for their own travel expenses to the Regional Competition.
INTA will reimburse the winners of the Regional Competition for their reasonable hotel and travel expenses for attending the National Finals up to a maximum of $1,000 per team.
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| 6. How many sides is a team expected to brief? How many sides is a team expected to argue during oral arguments? |
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Each team is randomly assigned one side to brief; the team will then brief all issues from that side’s perspective.
For oral arguments, each team will argue both sides.
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| 7. Can briefs be emailed/mailed/hand delivered to INTA’s Office? |
No, briefs cannot be emailed, mailed or hand delivered to INTA. Each team shall file its brief as a PDF file by uploading it online. The brief must be received by INTA no later than January 7, 2013, 11:59 pm U.S. Eastern Time. Briefs received after this date may not be considered.
Briefs are not returned to the teams after the competition. Please refer to the Official Rules for more information.
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| 8. Are past winning briefs shared with participating teams? |
Past winning briefs ARE NOT shared but a copy of the current year’s Bench Memo is provided to each participating team after the National Competition.
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| 9. Can one team member only participate in the oral arguments at the Regional and National Competitions? |
No. Each team MUST designate TWO team members to argue during oral arguments at the Regional and National Competitions.
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| 10. Can coaches and/or faculty advisors observe the oral arguments? |
Team members, coaches, faculty advisors or any other person affiliated with the team are permitted to attend ONLY those arguments in which that team is participating. Please refer to the Official Rules for more information.
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| 11. Are individual and team scores released to students who participate in the competition? |
| Individual and team scores ARE NOT released. After the National Finals, each team will be notified by email of its oral argument, brief, and overall rankings in its region and nationwide. Regional and National Finals winners, along with names of all participating schools, will be posted on the Lefkowitz page of INTA’s website at www.inta.org/lefkowitz after the National Finals. |
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2012-2013
National Finals Award Winners
- Winning Team: University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law (Shirley Lou, Avery Matro, Andrea Maglasang-Miller, Nikki Yamauchi)
- Second Place Team: University of Iowa College of Law (Alexander Johnson, Ravi Narayan, Samuel Young)
- Dolores K. Hanna Best Brief Award: University of Iowa College of Law
- Second Place Brief: Brooklyn Law School (Alina Levi, Glenn Schieck)
- Best Oral Argument: University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law
- Second Place Oral Argument Team: University of Iowa College of Law
Regional Award Winners
East
- First Place Team (total combined brief and oral argument scores): Brooklyn Law School (Team E-03-018: Alina Levi, Glenn Schieck)
- Second Place Team: Georgetown University Law Center (Team E-13-064: Jeffrey DeSousa, Samantha Hynes, Sarah Mortazavi, Jessica Pettit)
- Third Place Team: University of New Hampshire (Team E-06-028: Chris Hoolehan, Jeffrey Larson, Matthew Stanford)
- Best Brief: Brooklyn Law School
- Best Oral Argument Team: Seton Hall University School of Law (Team: E-20-087: Christina Yousef, Alex Silagi)
Midwest
- First Place Team (total combined brief and oral argument scores): University of Iowa College of Law (Team M-01-001: Alexander Johnson, Ravi Narayan, Samuel Young)
- Second Place Team: Northwestern University School of Law (Team M-31-088: Palash Basu, Elizabeth Mazzacco, Victoria Otero, Margaret Shyr)
- Third Place Team: University of Iowa College of Law (Team M-05-005: Abram Carls, Justin Kalemkiarian, Trong Le, Iftekhar Zaim)
- Best Brief: University of Iowa College of Law (Team M-01-001)
- Best Oral Argument Team: Creighton University School of Law (Team M-08-016: Nathan Dallon, Mitchell Engle, Oliver Maguire, Rachel Timm)
South
- First Place Team (total combined brief and oral argument scores): University of Alabama School of Law (Team S-04-031: Bo Bledsoe, Christopher Vinson, Glenn Zuercher)
- Second Place Team: Georgia State University College of Law (Team S-10-062: Jennifer Grant, Matt Littlefield, Richard Piercy, Clay Roberts)
- Third Place Team: Emory University School of Law (Team S-02-010: Steven Justus, Allison Ng, Sriram Rajan)
- Best Brief: Georgia State University College of Law
- Best Oral Argument Team: University of Alabama
West
- First Place Team (total combined brief and oral argument scores): University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School (Team: W-18-065: Shirley Lou, Avery Matro, Andrea Maglasang-Miller, Nikki Yamauchi)
- Second Place Team: University of Washington School of Law (Team W-06-023: Timothy Billick, Phaik Janice Goh)
- Third Place Team: University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (Team W-16-059: Peter Handy, Alisha Heilman)
- Best Brief: University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School
- Best Oral Argument Team: University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School
2011-2012
National Award Winners
- Winning Team: University of New Hampshire School of Law (Team E-04-032: Jeffrey Larson, Nicholas Scala, Anjie Vichayanonda)
- Second Place Team: Emory University School of Law (Team S-03-021: Hana Anderson, Sriram Rajan, Brad Strickland)
- Third Place Team: University of Iowa College of Law (Team M-19-051: Alexandria Christian, Van Everett, Amy Hein, Brian Kearns)
- Dolores K. Hanna Best Brief: University of New Hampshire School of Law
- Second Place Brief: North Carolina Central School of Law (Team S-11-062: Elise Bouchard, Brice Bratcher, Kyle Brazile)
- Best Oral Argument: University of New Hampshire School of Law
- Second Place Oral Argument Team: Emory University School of Law
Regional Award Winners
East
- First Place Team (total combined brief and oral argument scores): University of New Hampshire School of Law (Team E-04-032: Jeffrey Larson, Nicholas Scala, Anjie Vichayanonda)
- Second Place Team: University of Virginia School of Law (Team E-07-041: Galen Bascom, Anne Lippitt)
- Third Place Team: American University Washington College of Law (Team E-16-069: Eric Perrott, John Bodri, James Conlon, Amer Raja)
- Best Brief: University of New Hampshire School of Law
- Best Oral Argument: Georgetown University Law Center (Team E-19-083: Aditi Sherikar, Samantha Hynes)
Midwest
- First Place Team (total combined brief and oral argument scores): University of Iowa College of Law (Team M-19-051: Alexandria Christian, Van Everett, Amy Hein, Brian Kearns)
- Second Place Team: University of Illinois College of Law (Team M-06-008: David Dremann, Xiaoguang Gao, Angela Hsieh)
- Third Place Team: University of Wisconsin School of Law (Team M-03-004: Wesley Anderson, Paul Borovay, Benjamin Jones)
- Best Brief: University of Iowa College of Law
- Best Oral Argument: University of Kentucky College of Law (Team M-15-044: Jerrad Howard, Abigail Elizabeth Sheehan)
South
- First Place Team (total combined brief and oral argument scores): North Carolina Central School of Law (Team S-11-062: Elise Bouchard, Brice Bratcher, Kyle Brazile)
- Second Place Team: Emory University School of Law (Team S-03-021: Hana Anderson, Sriram Rajan, Brad Strickland)
- Third Place Team: Emory University School of Law (Team S-02-020: Anthony Cestaro, Donnalee Donaldson, Alyssa Smilowitz)
- Best Brief: North Carolina Central School of Law
- Best Oral Argument: Emory University School of Law (Team S-03-021)
West
- First Place Team (total combined brief and oral argument scores): Santa Clara University School of Law (Team W-12-035: Christopher Creech, Jacob Vigil)
- Second Place Team: University of California Davis School of Law (Team W-19-074: Ian Hlatky, Nima Rahimi, Jared Wigginton, Nathan Zhang)
- Third Place Team: University of California Berkeley School of Law (Team W-07-017: Ebby Abraham, Lauren Escher)
- Best Brief: Gonzaga University School of Law (Team W-11-031: Reid Jennings, Lorie Mallari, John Nelson, Elizabeth Zinke)
- Best Oral Argument: University of California Berkeley School of Law
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