This April, Booker T. Washington High School students from Ms. Carrie Dean’s Legal Environment of Business class participated in the 2nd annual Street Law Mock Trial. A partnership between the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia and Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, the event was held at the United States Federal Courthouse. The […]
As sixth graders at Inman Middle School rigorously prepared for their upcoming mock trial, several attorneys from the community shared valuable insight from their experiences. In the mock trial, the students were assigned roles from the characters from the novel The Outsider by S.E. Hinton. “We learned some very useful information that will help us […]
In observence of Law Month, Atlanta City Councilmember Natalyn Archibong and the Atlanta Municipal Court hosted more than a dozen students from South Atlanta High School of Law and Social Justice, Frederick Douglass High School and Carver School of Technology during a day of education about the judicial system. Law Month, a national observance during the month of […]
The Grady High School Mock Trial Team earned second place at the 2012 National High School Mock Trial Championships in Albuquerque over the weekend. The Albuquerque Academy of New Mexico won the first place title. The Grady team won the Georgia state championship in March to secure the right to compete in the national championship. […]
Grady High School’s award-winning Mock Trial Team won its 15th regional championship earlier this month in a competition round with North Springs Charter School. The team will compete in the state championship competition in mid-March in Lawrenceville, involving 17 other regional champions and 2 wildcard teams. This recent victory was the 14th consecutive regional championship […]
You may recall our intern, Grady High junior Elizabeth McGlamry, who in her spare time is a championship competitor for Grady’s vaunted mock trial team. (See video above for refresher!) Here she writes about the ongoing state championship this weekend. She’ll have an update next week, with a personal perspective on the competition. Good luck […]
UPDATE: Read AJC article here. Congratulations go out to Grady High School‘s vaunted mock trial team, which came home this past weekend with a unique world title. Twelve members of the team, which previously place third in national competition this past summer, won the Empire City Mock Trial Association Tournament held in New York […]