NIU College of Law Announces 22nd Annual Prize Moot Court Competition Finalists

April 01, 2004

DeKalb - Northern Illinois University College of Law announces the final round winners of its annual Moot Court Competition.

Laura Anderson and Andrea Donaldson, the first place team, were awarded the Carl W. Cicero Award, named in honor of the alumnus who was the winner of the 1st Annual Prize Moot Court Competition. Donaldson received the Best Oralist award for the final round. Anderson and Donaldson also won the Best Respondent's Brief award.

The second place team in the final competition was Kimberly Meyers and Patrice Koch. Meyers and Koch won the Best Petitioner's Brief award. Both briefs, along with the Prize Moot Court Competition program, will be published in the upcoming issue of the NIU Law Review.

Meyers earned the Best Oralist award in the preliminary rounds and the Second Best Oralist award was presented to Robert Morgan.

The Honorable Robert McLaren, Illinois Second District Appellate Court, the Honorable Barbara Gilleran Johnson, Illinois Second District Appellate Court, and Austin Bartlett, Esq., Associate with Adler, Murphy, and McQuillen and member of the NIU College of Law class of 2000 comprised the final bench.

The 2003-2004 Moot Court Society is headed by Chief Justice Meaghan Ring Alexander and Associate Justices John Gibbons, Ryan Howard, Charlotte LeClercq, and Kadi Weck. The 22nd annual competition began in January 2004. Associate Dean for Student Services Lenny Mandell is the faculty advisor for the Society.
 
 
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