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


2021 - 2022 Academic Year			Fall 2016 - Spring 2022
1	UCLA	53 points	1	UCLA	131 points
2	Fordham	16 points	2	Fordham Stetson	65 points
3	Denver	15 points	4	Cumberland, Samford	57 points
4	American	14 points	5	American	51 points
5	UC Berkeley	12 points	6	Drexel-Kline	50 points
6	Cumberland, Samford Pace South Carolina South Texas Temple	11 points	7	Baylor	49 points
11	Houston Quinnipac	10 points	8	South Carolina	48 points
13	Case Western	8 points	9	Denver	46 points
14	Baylor Campbell Chicago-Kent St. Mary's Stetson	7 points	10	Campbell Chicago-Kent Temple UC Berkeley	45 points
19	Florida International Georgia Maryland NYU Richmond	6 points	14	Georgetown	43 points
			15	Loyola (Chicago)	40 points
			16	Northwestern	39 points
			17	Harvard St. John's	37 points
			19	Wake Forest	35 points
			20	Loyola (Los Angeles)	33 points

Special thanks to Associate Director of Advocacy Programs and Competitions at American University Washington College of Law 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 by Faulkner Law School 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.