{"id":12578,"date":"2017-04-28T14:20:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T21:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/law\/2017\/04\/28\/first-year-law-students-face-off-before-a-vip-panel-of-judges-at-the-annual-rutan-tucker-golden-gavel-competition\/"},"modified":"2017-04-28T14:20:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T21:20:47","slug":"first-year-law-students-face-off-before-a-vip-panel-of-judges-at-the-annual-rutan-tucker-golden-gavel-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/2017\/04\/28\/first-year-law-students-face-off-before-a-vip-panel-of-judges-at-the-annual-rutan-tucker-golden-gavel-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"First Year Law Students Face Off before a VIP Panel of Judges at the Annual Rutan &amp; Tucker Golden Gavel Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First year students Hope Blain and Elisabeth Carter faced-off before a packed house in Fowler School of Law\u2019s appellate courtroom last week during the final argument in the 2017 Rutan &amp; Tucker Golden Gavel Competition.<\/p>\n<p>The final argument served as an opportunity for the winning advocates to display their skills before a panel of VIP judges as well as family, fellow students, law school administrators, and visiting attorneys.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/04\/CJ3A4619blog.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12586\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12586\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/04\/CJ3A4619blog.jpg\" alt=\"judges\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/04\/CJ3A4619blog.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/04\/CJ3A4619blog-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>The final argument was the culmination of Fowler Law\u2019s annual competition in which all first-year students present a mock appellate oral argument based on legal briefs written in their required Legal Research and Writing (LRW) class. Four students made it to the final round, Blain and Elyssa Hines for the plaintiff and Carter and Lance Cotton for the defendant. Blain and Carter learned they had won the competition one day earlier, surviving multiple elimination rounds in the weeklong event that began with 180 students. Each will receive the coveted Golden Gavel award and a $500 scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s VIP judges were the Honorable Diane S. Sykes from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; the Honorable David A. Thompson from the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three; and John B. Hurlbut, Jr., a partner at Rutan &amp; Tucker, LLP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/04\/CJ3A4695_blog.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12587\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12587\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/04\/CJ3A4695_blog.jpg\" alt=\"students\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/04\/CJ3A4695_blog.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/04\/CJ3A4695_blog-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Judge Sykes joined the federal bench in 2004 after being appointed by former president George W. Bush. Last year, she was named as a potential United States Supreme Court nominee by then presidential candidate Donald Trump. Justice Thompson has served on the Court of Appeal since 2012. Prior to that, he was an Orange County Superior Court judge for 15 years. Both Justice Thompson and John Hurlbut have previously judged the final round of the Golden Gavel competition and are frequent visitors to the law school.<\/p>\n<p>The annual competition is sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/2015\/02\/22\/rutan-tucker-llp-continues-partnership-with-chapmans-fowler-school-of-law\/\">Rutan &amp; Tucker, LLP<\/a>, a leading Orange County law firm with a strong history of investment in the mission of Chapman University and the Fowler School of Law, including the annual Golden Gavel and Golden Quill first-year advocacy and writing competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First year students Hope Blain and Elisabeth Carter faced-off before a packed house in Fowler School of Law\u2019s appellate courtroom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":12579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"custom_author_name":"","chapman_pin_hero_slider":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[318,20],"tags":[18,369,21],"class_list":["post-12578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitions","category-student-life","tag-competition-teams","tag-golden-gavel","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fowler School of Law | Chapman Blogs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/2017\/04\/28\/first-year-law-students-face-off-before-a-vip-panel-of-judges-at-the-annual-rutan-tucker-golden-gavel-competition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"First Year Law Students Face Off before a VIP Panel of Judges at the Annual Rutan &amp; 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