Bower and Outten Receive Dean’s ‘Most Effective Advocate’ Award
Students Awarded Honor For Outstanding Oral Advocacy In Mock Trial Challenge
Austin Bower ’24, BBA/Concentration in Management, and Allen [Will] Outten ’25, BBA/Concentration in Sport Management, were awarded the “Dean’s Most Effective Advocate” Award on May 8, for their exemplary performances as legal counsel in a Mock Trial Challenge in Professor John Winn J.D., LLM’s Spring 2024 BA-303 Legal Environment of Business classes.
Each semester, students take on the roles of attorneys and witnesses in a simulated civil trial. The case, “Peter Brady vs. Sam’s Sporting Goods,” involves a slip-and-fall incident resulting in permanent physical injuries. Students deliver opening statements, closing arguments, and conduct direct or cross-examinations. In addition to their roles as legal counsel, students also portray the plaintiff, defendant, two eyewitnesses, and an expert medical witness.
The mock trial challenges students to unravel facts from supplied witness statements and critically apply these facts to basic principles of tort and evidence law learned during the semester. Based upon the overall quality of the oral advocacy displayed on behalf of their clients, one student per section receives this Dean’s Award.”
Professor John Winn J.D., LLM
Each winner also receives a gift certificate.
