Trial Competition Performance Rankings

The Trial Competition Performance Ranking (TCPR) is an objective snapshot of achievement in interscholastic law school trial competitions.

Performance Rankings Top 20


2023 - 2024 Academic Year			Fall 2016 - Spring 2024
1	UCLA	49 points	1	UCLA	226 points
2	Stetson	26 points	2	Stetson	110 points
3	Baylor	17 points	3	Cumberland, Samford	85 points
4	Cumberland, Samford	16 points	4	Fordham	78 points
5	St. John's	15 points	5	Baylor	74 points
6	South Carolina	13 points	6	Drexel-Kline	70 points
7	Hofstra Temple	11 points	7	Temple	67 points
9	Mercer Campbell Illinois Georgetown Missouri - Kansas City	10 points	8	South Carolina	66 points
14	Maryland Texas Harvard	9 points	9	Campbell Harvard	65 points
17	Drexel-Kline Chicago-Kent Rutgers American	8 points	11	Chicago-Kent American	62 points
			13	Georgetown Denver	57 points
			15	St. John's	56 points
			16	UC Berkeley	50 points
			17	Northwestern	48 points
			18	Loyola (Chicago)	47 points
			19	Maryland	45 points
			20	Loyola (Los Angeles)	44 points

Special thanks to Professor Joe Lester for compiling all competition results at www.trialteamcentral.org.

The TCPR recognizes success at these competitions as one indicator of an effective trial advocacy education. The TCPR is not a measurement of a law school’s overall trial advocacy program. The TCPR cannot measure the breadth of offerings, quality of teaching, or most importantly, student learning. The unwavering goal of trial advocacy education should be to prepare law students to advocate and win trials on behalf of their clients while maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards. Achievement at competitions can be an attending (albeit fun) byproduct of that quality education for those schools that choose to participate.

All TCPR points are allocated based on the competition result data compiled at http://www.trialteamcentral.org/.

Point allocation for all single-tournament national competitions is as follows: 3 points for winning the competition, 2 points for making it to the final round, and 1 point for making it to the semi-final round. For exclusively regional tournaments (AAJ Regionals, TYLA Regionals, Chester Bedall), each winning team is allocated 3 points. No points are allocated for regional finalists or semi-finalists.

For AAJ Nationals and TYLA Nationals, where all participating teams won regional qualifiers, the points are allocated as follows: 4 points for winning the competition, 3 points for making it to the final round, and 2 points for making it to the semi-final round. Additional weight is not given to other “selective” national competitions because each competition employs their own unique rubric for school selection and do not share the unquestionable objectivity of a regional tournament qualifier.

For the 2016-2017 year, no points were allocated for the ABA Employment Regional or National Competitions because of the limited and inconsistent result data available.