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February 14, 2008
Law Team Advances to Mock Trial Nationals
Team wins regional mock trial competition; individual awards.
Written by Leslie Cranford
The winning team: (L-R) Calvin Lewis, Titiana Dixon, Lynn Brooks, Amber Webb and Marcus Blais. Blais and Webb also garnered individual Best Advocate honors.
A School of Law team won the 2008 Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition for the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) Rocky Mountain Region. The competition was hosted by the BLSA chapter at the University of Texas Feb. 7-9 in Austin.
Team members are:
- Marcus Blais, 3rd year, San Diego, Calif.
- Lynn Brooks, 3rd year, El Paso
- Titiana Dixon, 2nd year, Kentwood, La.
- Amber Webb, 1st year, Lancaster
Texas Tech students also won the top two individual awards, with Marcus Blais winning the Best Advocate award for the entire tournament and Amber Webb taking second place.
In mock trial competition, a team must be prepared to try both sides of a case, with two “attorneys” prepared on each side. Whichever pair is not trying the case becomes witnesses. The mock trial problem can be either criminal or civil; in this competition the case was criminal.
The team is coached by Calvin Lewis, professor and associate dean for student and minority affairs at the law school, in his second year of coaching mock trial teams. Previously he coached Texas Tech’s moot court teams for two years.
Texas Tech’s foursome will travel to the national competition, held March 26-30 in Detroit during the National Black Law Students Association 40th Annual National Convention, to compete against 13 other teams for the national title.
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Calvin Lewis is an associate professor at the School of Law and serves as associate dean for student and minority affairs.
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