Trial Competition Performance Rankings

Performance Rankings Top 25

**Fordham University School of Law**
**Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center**
2019 - 2020 Academic Year			Fall 2016 - Present
1	UCLA	16 points	1	Stetson	49 points
2	Northwestern	12 points	2	UCLA	38 points
3	Cumberland, Samford	11 points	3	Cumberland, Samford	36 points
4	Fordham	10 points		Drexel-Kline	36 points
	Loyola (Chicago)	10 points		Fordham	36 points
	South Carolina	10 points	6	Loyola (Chicago)	35 points
7	Campbell	9 points	7	Campbell	34 points
	Pacific McGeorge	9 points		Northwestern	34 points
	Syracuse	9 points		South Carolina	34 points
10	Denver	8 points	10	St. John's	33 points
10	Emory	8 points	11	American	30 points
12	Drexel-Kline	7 points	12	Wake Forest	29 points
	St. John's	7 points	13	Baylor	28 points
	UC Berkeley	7 points	14	Loyola (Los Angeles)	27 points
15	American	6 points	15	UC Berkeley	26 points
	Florida State	6 points	16	Chicago-Kent	25 points
	Loyola (Los Angeles)	6 points		Syracuse	25 points
	Stetson	6 points		UC Hastings	25 points
	Tulane	6 points	19	Emory	24 points
	Washing - St. Louis	6 points		Georgetown	24 points
21	Barry	5 points		Maryland	24 points
	Michigan	5 points	22	Pacific McGeorge	23 points
	South Texas	5 points	23	Akron	22 points
	Southern Methodist	5 points	23	Temple	22 points
	Temple	5 points	25	Florida	20 points
				Harvard	20 points
				William and Mary	20 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.

Methodology

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.