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UW College of Law
students Jill Garrett (1L) and Kellie Nelson (1L) teamed up to win the
intra-school Pence & MacMillan Client Counseling Competition, which is sponsored
by Laramie law firm Pence & MacMillan, LLC. Second-year students Heather Cox
and Monica Vozakis took second place; first-year law students Nate Maxon and
Tara Hickerson took third place; and second-year law students Amy Smith and
Jessica Schneider took fourth place. The top two teams went on to Houston,
Texas, to compete in the Regional Client Counseling Competition. Students were
coached by their faculty sponsor, Professor Jim Delaney. Congratulations to
these students for a job well done! |
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The Pence & MacMillan
Client Counseling Competition provides an opportunity for law students to
develop valuable skills interacting with and proposing solutions for clients.
Each team of two attorneys is given a fact pattern and another law
student poses as the client.
The team then interviews
the client and tries to extract the factual information, the client’s problem
and desired resolution. The team then applies their counseling skills and
devises a preliminary summary of the client’s legal position and the client’s
possible actions. The competition emphasizes communication and other
interpersonal skills essential to sound representation of clients. Local
attorneys, psychologists and counselors act as judges to the local competition.
The Laramie law firm of Pence & MacMillan sponsors the intra-school
competition. The Regional Client Counseling Competition is sponsored by the Law
Student Division of the American Bar Association.
Above:
Third-year law student
Tom Justice waits outside the Rare Books Room at UW law school to hear the
results of the Pence & MacMillan competition.
Justice is a member of the Board of Advocates, a student run organization
that supports student competitions.
The Board is responsible for organizing, publicizing and coordinating all
student competitions within the UW College of Law. |
