Congratulations to the students in the Jenkins Honors Moot Court Competition who have moved on to the quarterfinal round of the competition. The students will be competing on Saturday, April 6 at 2:30 p.m. to determine which teams will be advancing to the semifinal round on Sunday, April 7 at 10:00 a.m.
The following teams will be competing in the quarterfinals:
Nicholas Wanic and Luis Gutierrez
Julie Leary and Elizabeth Elving
Allison Mignon and Mikal Roberson
Emily Turzinski and Brighton Troha
Brooke Erickson and Micaela Haggenjos
Adam Vanderheyden and Jason Findling
Cole Dunn and Peter Klepacz
Marnae Mawdsley and Mitchell Kiffmeyer
Congratulations to all the participants in the competition. We also very much appreciate the alumni and other attorneys who volunteered to grade briefs and who served as judges in the four preliminary rounds. We appreciate their time and assistance every year.
The final round of the Jenkins competition will take place on Thursday, April 11, at 5:15 p.m. in the Lubar Center.
Lizzy King, Jad Itani, and Travis YangAnna Meulbroek, Zeinat Hindi, and Libby Grabow
Thirty teams from across the country arrived in Boston at the Boston Municipal Court Department on February 28, all prepared to present oral arguments in the National Appellate Advocacy Competition (NAAC) regional. Two Marquette Law teams were among those and both made an impact.
Jad Itani, Elizabeth (Lizzy) King, and Travis Yang were seeded 13th after three rounds of argument. They advanced to the fourth (regional semifinal) round but faced a tough bench while arguing respondent’s side, a tough argument in the context of the Eighth Amendment issues presented. They lost that fourth round. King had a strong performance at oral argument in the second round, despite battling some unfortunate shellfish poisoning; Itani had to sub in for her in the third and fourth rounds, despite not having argued that side at all. Their team’s brief was named third best in the region.
Elizabeth (Libby) Grabow, Zeinat Hindi, and Anna Meulbroek were seeded 3rd after three rounds, but they, too, faced a tough bench in the fourth round. Unfortunately, they lost that round, but delivered consistently high-quality oral arguments in every round. After the third round, the judges commended them for their winning performance and encouraged each of them to continue with litigation work. Their team’s brief was named fourth best in the region.
This year was the first in memory where both teams advanced to the regional semifinal round and both teams received brief awards. Marquette has much to be proud of.
Both teams were assisted by practitioner coaches Elleny Christopolous, Kate Maternowski, and Zachary Willenbrink (L’11). Thank you, too, to practice judges Professors Ed Fallone and Elana Olson; Judge J.P. Stadtmueller (L’67), law clerk Nathan Bader and law clerk Joan Harms; City of Milwaukee attorneys James Carroll (L’08), Bill Davidson (L’17), Patricia Fricker, Katryna Rhodes; Meredith Donaldson (L’18); and former NAAC competitors Lucas Bennewitz (L’15), Ali Klimko (L’17), Andrew Lawton (L’18), and Adam Woodside (L’18).
Congratulations to team members for their outstanding representation of Marquette Law.
Congratulations to the participants in the 2019 Jenkins Honors
Moot Court Competition:
Charles Bowen
Colin (Cole) Dunn
Elizabeth Elving
Brooke Erickson
Jason Findling
Luis Gutierrez
Micaela Haggenjos
Mitchell Kiffmeyer
Peter Klepacz
Julie Leary
Marnae Mawdsley
Alison Mignon
Kieran O’Day
Kylie Owens
Darrin Pribbernow
Mikal Roberson
Jacob Rozema
Caleb Tomaszewski
Brighton Troha
Emily Turzinski
Alexander Sterling
Adam Vanderheyden
Nick Wanic
Sadie Zurfluh
The Jenkins preliminary rounds begin March 30, 2019, with the winning teams progressing through the quarterfinals, then semifinals, to the finals. The final round will take place April 11, 2019. All rounds are open to the public. Stay tuned for more information.
Correction (1/4/19): Earlier, this post said the final round was April 7, 2019; however, the correct date is April 11, 2019.
