Chapman is honored to have received the Louise Otis Award for Excellence in Mediation Education at the International Competition for Mediation Advocacy (ICMA, formerly CNMAC) in Toronto. The award is in recognition of a superior commitment to the integration of mediation and advocacy skills into legal education. The ICMA focuses on acknowledging and evaluating mediation advocacy skills that demonstrate
Seven Chapman Law students received recognition in a London mediation competition hosted by BPP Law School and sponsored by the International Academy for Alternate Dispute Resolution. Over 110 competitors from 23 law schools from four continents comprised the 34 teams that participated in the competition. In the individual awards, Scott McIntyre was second in the
Chapman’s mediation team triumphed in the International Academy of Dispute Resolution’s Law School Mediation Tournament in Chicago. Chapman competed among 36 teams (108 students) from around the world, including India, Germany, England, Scotland, Canada and the US. Chapman’s teams did an amazing job: Cynthia Guzman, Stephanie Brou and Chris Koras placed 1st overall for the
Chapman Law’s ADR team, comprised of Lisa Fiance, Aaron Goben, and Kyndell Paine, won first place at the National Mediation Competition in Liverpool, England. Kyndell took the second place individual mediator award and Aaron took the third place individual award. This was the first UK National Mediation Competition with three US teams (Lewis University, Illinois; Drake School of
The ABA Student Lawyer Magazine ran an article on 3L students Jimmy Blalock, Brett Corson, Meghan O’Brien Taylor, and Arlinda Witko winning the 2008-2009 National Arbitration Competition against 13 other teams from across the country. The competition challenge was to arbitrate a case in the field of election campaign law where the teams represented both
Chapman’s Mock Trial Board won the ABA-LSD National Arbitration Competition in San Antonio, Texas this past weekend. The student team of Jimmy Blalock, Brett Corson, Meghan O’Brien Taylor, and Arlinda Witko finished third in the preliminary rounds, advancing to the final rounds where they outscored teams from Louisiana State University and the University of Missouri—Columbia. The team was