Trial Competition Performance Rankings

Performance Rankings Top 25

**Fordham University School of Law**
**Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center**
2018 - 2019 Academic Year			Fall 2016 - Present
1	Stetson	21 points	1	Stetson	43 points
2	Loyola Chicago	17 points	2	Drexel Kine	29 points
3	UCLA	15 points	3	Fordham	26 points
4	South Carolina	14 points		St. Johns	26 points
5	Akron	12 points		Wake Forest	26 points
5	Campbell	12 points	6	Baylor	25 points
7	American	11 points		Campbell	25 points
7	UC Berkeley	11 points		Cumberland	25 points
9	Emory	10 points		Loyola Chicago	25 points
10	Baylor	9 points	10	American	24 points
	Brooklyn	9 points		South Carolina	24 points
	Cumberland	9 points		UC Hastings	24 Points
	William & Mary	9 points	13	Georgetown	23 points
14	Catholic	8 points	14	Chicago-Kent	22 points
	Loyola LA	8 points		Northwestern	22 points
	SMU	8 points		UCLA	22 points
	Temple	8 points	17	Akron	21 points
18	Drexel Kline	7 points	17	Loyola LA	21 points
	Harvard	7 points	19	Florida	20 points
	John Marshall Chicago	7 points	19	Maryland	20 points
	St. Thomas	7 points	21	UC Berkeley	19 points
22	Faulkner	6 points	22	NYU	18 points
	Fordham	6 points	23	Brooklyn	17 points
	Georgetown	6 points		Harvard	17 points
	NYU	6 points		Temple	17 points
	Pacific McGeorge	6 points
	Syracuse	6 points

Special thanks to Professor Joe Lester and Faulkner Law School for compiling all competition results at 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 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 school 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.