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Speaker Series: James O’Neal – 3/22
NON-TRADITIONAL SPEAKER SERIES feat JAMES O’NEAL, CO-FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF LEGAL OUTREACH
Professional Development
Tuesday, March 22, 12pm, Room TBA
RSVP to Professional Development
Come join HBLSA Alum, James O’Neal, for lunch as he shares his career path and experiences post-HLS. James is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Legal Outreach, a non-profit organization that uses intensive legal and educational programs to prepare urban youth from underserved communities in NYC to compete at high academic levels. This is a wonderful opportunity to ask any burning questions about pursuing a career in the public interest and to build a relationship with one of our amazing HBLSA Alumni! You must RSVP in order to attend. Please email [email protected] to secure your spot. The seats will be available on a first come, first serve basis.
Spring Dinner Parties – March & April
Social
March-April
HBLSA members’ homes
Get to know some of your fellow HBLSA members in a cozy, informal setting. Social Committee is paying for several HBLSA members to host dinner parties in their homes throughout late March and April!
Please email [email protected] if you are interesting in hosting around 10 people in your home. You can cook as a group or order in–watch movies, talk, or just enjoy each other’s company!
Please email [email protected] as well if you are interested in attending a dinner party. Once we have a list of hosts and attendees, we’ll send out more details on dates, times, and locations.
Charity Cultural Showcase – 4/7
Social
April 7, 2011, Time TBA
Pound Hall, Ropes Gray
CALLING ALL TALENT!!!
Are you a dancer, singer, lyricist, musician, actor, or performer of any kind? If so, we would love for you to show off your talents at HBLSA’s annual talent show! Please email [email protected] for details and to let us know if you’re interested in performing. The show will be co-sponsored by several other HLS organizations.
HLS Trial Advocacy Team Wins National Competition in Puerto Rico
December 09, 2010
Harvard Law School became the first-ever repeat-winner of the National Puerto Rico Trial Advocacy Competition.
Returning as defending champions, the Harvard Law School Trial Team advanced to the semi-finals with the highest score and remained undefeated throughout the competition, edging out Georgetown Law in the final round to win first place. The prestigious “invitation- only” competition was sponsored by the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico School of Law and the Puerto Rico Bar Association October 28-30.
The Harvard team was sponsored and coached through the auspices of the Law School’s Criminal Justice Institute. The team included 3L’s Mostafa Abdelkarim and Nneka Ukpai and 2L’s Anthony Hendricks and Ieshaah Murphy.
In addition to the team victory, Murphy and Ukpai together secured a total of 8 Perfect Score Awards and were recognized as Best Advocates in the competition.
In this year’s mock case, a recently paroled convict was charged with murder and armed robbery. The prosecution’s witnesses were two decorated police officers who testified that the defendant confessed multiple times to the murder. The defense witnesses were the defendant’s parents as alibi witnesses. The defense team also had the option to call the defendant. Hendricks and Abdelkarim represented the prosecution while Murphy and Ukpai represented the defendant.
“We are extremely grateful for the support of Dean Minow and the Criminal Justice Institute,” said Ukpai. “We competed against some very skilled adversaries but with the training, patience, and commitment of our coaches, Soffiyah Elijah and Dehlia Umunna, we triumphed to become the first school to ever win this competition twice.”
CJI Deputy Director Soffiyah Elijah and CJI Clinical Instructor Dehlia Umunna have coached other teams at the Law School to several other first place finishes in competitions in Massachusetts and New York.
The Criminal Justice Institute is the curriculum-based criminal law clinical program of Harvard Law School. Its mission is to educate students in becoming effective, ethical and zealous criminal defense lawyer-advocates through practice in representing indigent individuals involved in the Massachusetts court system as well as to research and present issues and debates about the criminal and juvenile justice systems in order to effect local and national reform.
[Originally reported: http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2010/12/09_trial-advocacy-competition.html]Good Luck with Exams!
Congratulations on the last week of classes! Good luck with exams!
