Trial Competition Performance Rankings

Performance Rankings Top 20

**Fordham University School of Law**
**Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center**
2020 - 2021 Academic Year			Fall 2016 - Present
1	UCLA	40 points	1	UCLA	78 points
2	Georgetown	15 points	2	Stetson	58 points
3	Baylor	14 points	3	Fordham	49 points
4	Chicago - Kent	13 points	4	Cumberland, Samford	46 points
4	Fordham	13 points	5	Drexel-Kline	45 points
6	Denver	12 points	6	Baylor	42 points
	Harvard	12 points	7	Georgetown	39 points
	Temple	12 points	8	Campbell	38 points
9	Cumberland, Samford	10 points	8	Chicago - Kent	38 points
10	Drexel-Kline	9 points	10	American	37 points
10	Stetson	9 points		Loyola (Chicago)	37 points
12	American	7 points		South Carolina	37 points
	Pace	7 points	13	St. Johns	35 points
	UC Berkeley	7 points	13	Wake Forest	35 points
15	Florida Statte	6 points	15	Northwestern	34 points
	Miami	6 points	15	Temple	34 points
	Pacific McGeorge	6 points	17	UC Berkeley	33 points
	Syracuse	6 points	18	Harvard	32 points
	Wake Forest	6 points	19	Denver	31 points
20	Belmont	5 points	19	Syracuse	31 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 Professor Joe Lester 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 the All-Star Bracket, each of the 4 advancing teams from each region are allocated 1 point.

For AAJ Nationals, TYLA Nationals, and All-Star Bracket 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 does 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.