What:
42nd Annual Moot Court Night and Appellate Advocacy Seminar

Who:
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Student Moot Court Team
Two teams of students will argue a fictional case regarding a city ordinance that requires employers to provide employee health care benefits.

The students are mentored by the law firms of Jones Day and Baker Hostetler.

The judges for the event will be:

The Honorable Jeffrey S. Sutton, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit
The Honorable Deborah L. Cook, U. S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit
The Honorable Solomon Oliver, Jr., Chief Judge of the U. S.
District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

When:
6 p.m. Thursday, November 4, 2010

Where:
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Moot Court Room, Cleveland State University, 1801 Euclid Avenue.

More:
The moot court program at C-M Law is one of the best in the nation. Last year's teams were successful in the regional competitions and progressed to the national finals in both the New York City Bar Association National Moot Court Competition and the National Appellate Advocacy Competition sponsored by the American Bar Association. This year the program has been selected to compete in the Moot Court National Championship Competition, an invitation-only event limited to the top 16 programs in the nation.

In addition to the competition the participating judges will provide a brief seminar on appellate advocacy.

The program is free and open to the public, and offers one free hour of Continuing Legal Education credit for members of the Ohio bar.

About Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, founded in 1897 as the Cleveland Law School, was the first law school in Ohio to admit women and one of the first to admit minorities. In 1946, the Cleveland Law School merged with the John Marshall School of Law, founded in 1916, to become the Cleveland-Marshall Law School. In 1969, the Law School joined Cleveland's new public university as its sixth college and was renamed the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law of Cleveland State University. Early graduates of the College of Law laid the foundation for the legal profession in Northeast Ohio. Now in its 113th year, Cleveland-Marshall prepares promising students to be America's leaders in the 21st century in law, business, non-profit agencies and government.

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