A team of University of West Los Angeles law
students has won the Best (Petitioner's) Brief award at the annual National
Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition, held November 1-2 at the University
of San Diego School of Law.
Third-year students Natalie Hairabedian and
Edgar Portillo represented UWLA in this prestigious national tournament, which
featured 40 teams from all regions of the country. The great majority of the
participating schools in the competition are large ABA institutions. Both UWLA
students, unlike most of their competitors, are working while attending law
school.
In addition to winning the prestigious written
portion of the contest, Hairabedian and Portillo advanced to the quarter-finals
of the oral advocacy portion of the event, finishing in the top 8 of the 40
competing teams in that category.
Both students earlier completed Adjunct
Professor David Glassman's Appellate Advocacy class. This is the second time
Professor Glassman's students have won a Best Brief award in this competition.
His former students have also reached the final round of the oral advocacy
portion of the tournament. Professor Glassman commends these students for their
outstanding achievement and appreciates the faculty members and moot court
alumni (Adjunct
Professors Miriam Billington and Sam Ekizian and alums Christopher Davis and
Kristen Gozawa) who volunteered to assist this year's team during
preparations for oral argument.
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