Moot Court Team Advances to National Competition

Akron, Ohio, Dec. 9, 2004 — University of Akron law students will travel to the Big Apple to compete in the national rounds of the Fifty-fifth Annual Moot Competition sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. The competition will be held Jan. 31 through Feb. 3.

The UA moot court team qualified for the final rounds by placing second in the regional rounds held Nov. 18-20 in Akron. The regional competition included 15 teams from eight law schools in Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky.

UA team members are second-year day students Shane McCammon of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Paul Zindle of Akron; and second-year evening student Michelle Schuld of Wadsworth. The team was coached by J. Dean Carro, UA professor of clinical law, and Joann Sahl, of community legal aid. Both Carro ('78) and Sahl ('86) are UA School of Law alumni.

Carro says qualifying for a national competition reflects a great deal of individual initiative and a total team effort.

“The Annual Moot Competition is the oldest of moot court competitions and very prestigious,” says Carro. “We are so proud of the work these students have done and are looking forward to a closely contested national competition.”

In their latest rankings, “National Jurist” and “Prelaw Insider” magazines rated UA's School of Law as the second “best value” juris doctor public school program in the United States, based on tuition, bar passage rates, unemployment rate, median grants, clinic slots and faculty-student ratio.

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