Syracuse National Trial Competition
Loyola Law School Los Angeles Wins 2020 Syracuse National Trial Competition
Loyola Law School Los Angeles has repeated as the winner of this year's Syracuse National Trial Competition. Loyola prevailed over Georgetown Law in the final round. University of Buffalo Law School and St. John's University Law School were semi-finalists.
Individual awards were given to:
- Best Opening Statement - Lauren Dillingham from the University of South Carolina School of Law Best Direct Examination - Charron Varona from Loyola Law School Los Angeles
- Best Cross-Examination - Ryan Falk from University of Buffalo Law School
- Best Closing Argument - Molly Goodwill from Stetson University College of Law
- Best Overall Advocate - Rachel Williams from Cumberland School of Law, Samford University
SNTC, among the first national virtual trial competitions in the 2020-2021 academic year, featured nearly 50 trials before 150 judge and evaluator panels, with the participation of 100 students. Judges and evaluators from around the country provided thoughtful feedback to the students who argued Martin v. Francis, – a matter of voting rights and election law –a very timely and relevant legal matter.
Syracuse University College of Law would like to extend our sincere thanks to all the schools that participated in this year's competition. It was a hard-fought, close competition from the first opening argument to the last closing argument.
2020 Syracuse National Trial Competition
Online Oct. 16-18, 2020
The College of Law would like to extend our sincere thanks to all the schools that applied for the 2020 Syracuse National Trial Competition. We greatly appreciate the level of interest in this competition and thank all the tremendously qualified applicants.
We are pleased to announce the schools selected to participate this fall in the virtual competition:
- Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology
- Cumberland School of Law, Samford University
- Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Emory University School of Law
- Fordham University School of Law
- Georgetown Law
- Loyola Law School Los Angeles
- Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
- St. John’s University Law School
- South Texas College of Law Houston
- Stetson University College of Law
- Suffolk University Law School
- Temple University Beasley School of Law
- The George Washington University Law School
- UCLA School of Law
- University of Akron School of Law
- University at Buffalo School of Law
- University of California Hastings College of Law
- University of Illinois at Chicago John Marshall Law School
- University of Illinois College of Law
- University of South Carolina School of Law
- University of South Dakota School of Law
We look forward to a fantastic competition.