2008/2009 AAJ American Association of Justice Competition (law school)

[res ipsa loquitur]

Student Trial Advocacy Competition (STAC)
http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/xchg/justice/hs.xsl/1734.htm

When is the problem ever going to be released?

Anyone else pick up the leaked copy over the weekend?  Looks like wrongful death case!

What do your regionals look like?




Requests for fact pattern clarification due:  December 22, 2008 (Do we ever get a fact pattern?)

Answers to requests for fact pattern clarification by:  January 23, 2009

Final list of students on team(s) due: January 26, 2009

Students must be members of AAJ by: January 26, 2009

2009 Regional Competition: February 27 - March 1, 2009

2009 National Finals: April 2 - 5, 2009, West Palm Beach, FL

[DesertClassic]

I hated AAJ

[Herb]

I was on the AAJ team until I got moved to NTC.  I mean, I could've tried to talk my way into both but I didn't feel like it was worth it.

What's the beef with AAJ, Jimmy?

[Get Down]

TJ and I will be doing AAJ this Spring. Come on, Herb - flex that muscle to get on both and we'll have a reunion.

Are yall not doing AAJ this year, Jimmy?

[DesertClassic]

Sarah and I will be at the ABA Criminal Trial Competition in Chicago.

We've elected against doing NTC or AAJ.  Frankly, we hate the formats and we hated the problems even more (particularly AAJ's).

In the interest of disclosure, I might hate them less if we'd done better

[Herb]

Ah.  We were doing ABA Crim as well, but that fell apart for us so that left us with AAJ/NTC alone.

Ed:
If I did AAJ and NTC I would have back to back trial competitions going on at the same time as back to back regionals for AMTA.   Plus, we have our own appellate competition going on at that same time as well.  Basically it would be the most painful two weeks of my life.

[Get Down]

I understand, fellas. Well, let me know how the Chi and NTC goes. I think we're sending teams both places. Good luck with it. Holla.