TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Mar 30, 2023

The University of Tennessee College of Law has announced winners of recent legal competitions designed to help law students improve their advocacy skills. Max Williams won the law school’s 2023 1L Advocacy Competition, in which he and the 23 other students who competed with him were introduced to the facts of their case and had just 15 minutes to prepare their strategy before they appeared before judges to make their best opening statement. UT Law also announced that Chad Taylor finished first in the school’s Jenkins Trial Competition earlier this week and was named outstanding oralist. Alex Allen and Kyle Mangrum were second-place finishers and Grant Peterson was named best witness. U.S. Magistrate Judge and former TBA President Cynthia Wyrick gave feedback to the student participants in the trial competition.