USC Mock Trial Team

collegiate instructional Trial Advocacy program in the country. USC's program is indeed, the program!

The University of Southern California Mock Trial Team was founded in 2001. That year we set out to establish undergraduate Trial Advocacy training as a priority at USC and to establish USC as a dominant force on the national competitive trial advocacy scene.

Only five years into this endeavor, we have done both. We have competed in, and placed in, national tournaments every one of our five years in existence. For the past four years we have hosted AMTA's largest, and best, regional tournament. At the 2006 AMTA National Championship Tournament we were the top-performing team from the Western Region. Moreover, having finished the 2007 season, our overall AMTA program ranking is currently fourth nationwide!!!

Our program has managed to accomplish the successful fusion of competition and academics. Moreover, we harmoniously balance the two. Effective use of technology is a major factor in our success.

We make full use of the latest scientific advances to enhance learning and performance. USC's supercomputer has been ranked the nation's second most powerful computer system in an academic setting.

This enables us to stream over 30 gigabytes of encoded trial advocacy practice & teaching videos over the internet to our students on demand at blinding speeds -- seamlessly integrating the latest technology into our instructional repertoire. Additionally, our program has its own stock of digital video cameras available for use by students who desire to practice with them.

We partner with Lexis-Nexis to secure access to, and training on, the latest computerized legal research systems -- adding to our students’ tremendous head start on law school. We also partner with the finest public interest law firms and organizations to arrange opportunities for our students to attend notable trials and actually advocate for real people in administrative law proceedings.

Take all of the above, along with the fact that we enjoy an occasional trial scrimmage at Venice Beach (following a friendly game of volleyball), and there you have it -- what we like to call the program!!!

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