Trial Competition Performance Rankings

Performance Rankings Top 20

**Fordham University School of Law**
**Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center**
**Trial Competition Performance Rankings Top 20**
2017-2018 Academic Year			Past 2 Years Total
1	UC Hastings	18 points	1	UC Hastings	23 points
2	Cumberland	15 points	1	Wake Forest	23 points
3	Wake Forest	13 points	3	Drexel Kline	22 points
4	Drexel Kline	12 points		St. Johns
5	Maryland	11 points		Stetson
5	Northwestern	11 points	6	Chicago-Kent	20 points
7	Baylor	10 points	6	Fordham	20 points
8	St. Johns	9 points	8	Maryland	18 points
8	NYU	9 points	8	Northwestern	18 points
10	Stetson	8 points	10	Georgetown	17 points
	Chicago-Kent		11	Cumberland	16 points
	Hofstra		11	Baylor	16 points
	Georgia State		13	American	13 points
14	Fordham	7 points		Florida
	American			Campbell
	Loyola Chicago			Loyola LA
	St. Thomas		17	NYU	12 points
	Michigan		18	Hofstra	11 points
19	Georgetown	6 points	19	Syracuse	10 points
	Florida			South Carolina
	Georgia			UC Davis
	Akron			Tulane
	Denver			UMKC
	Texas Tech
	Thomas Jefferson
	Emory

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.