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


2022 - 2023 Academic Year			Fall 2016 - Spring 2023
1	UCLA	46 points	1	UCLA	177 points
2	Stetson	19 points	2	Stetson	84 points
3	Harvard	18 points	3	Fordham	74 points
4	Mercer	16 points	4	Cumberland, Samford	69 points
5	Cumberland, Samford Howard	12 points	5	Drexel-Kline	61 points
7	Drexel-Kline Temple	11 points	6	Baylor Harvard Temple	56 points
9	Campbell	10 points	9	Campbell	55 points
10	Chicago-Kent Colorado Fordham Georgia	9 points	10	American Chicago-Kent Denver	54 points
14	Denver NYU St. Mary's	8 points	13	South Carolina	53 points
17	Baylor Houston St. Thomas (Florida) Washington - St. Louis	6 points	14	Georgetown	47 points
			15	UC Berkeley	46 points
			16	Loyoal (Chicago) Northwestern	45 points
			18	St. John's	41 points
			19	Loyola (Los Angeles)	39 points
			20	NYU	37 points

Special thanks to Professor 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 at 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.