National Pretrial Competition

The National Pretrial Competition captures what attorneys do every day in offices and courtrooms across the nation.

Stetson will host the Seventeenth Annual National Pretrial Competition on October 3-6, 2024, in Gulfport, Florida. Competing teams will:

  1. Receive a problem drafted to focus on pretrial issues;
  2. Write two memoranda of law (one for each side of the case) that are scored;
  3. Make an evidentiary presentation through examination of four witnesses (two on each side of the case); and
  4. Make a legal argument to the court based on the evidence presented and the precedent cited in the memoranda of law.

Application link coming soon. Please email [email protected] with any questions.