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D's Mock Trial Scores in Des Moines

Hanover, NH - For the first time in school history, Dartmouth Mock Trial Society has placed in the top ten in the American Mock Trial Association National College Championships in Des Moines on April 8-10th.

MTS Team Silver qualified for the national championship after placing second overall in the New England Regionals in February. Team Silver finished the national championship with an overall record of 5 wins and 3 losses. Sixty four teams competed in the Nationals, the highest level of intercollegiate competition in this sector. Dartmouth is among a few schools to qualify three teams to the national level competitions.

Led by captain David Rhinesmith '05, Team Silver delivered xceptional performances by mock attorneys Rhinesmith, Victoria Corder '05, Sean Miller '05, and witnesses Terri-Anne Segovia '05, Michael Ellis '06, and Jessica Taub '08. After losing in the first round to University of Chicago, Dartmouth rebounded to sweep Gonzaga in the next round. In the third round Dartmouth was matched up against Drake University (Iowa), where college mock trial was born and reared. In a controversial decision, Dartmouth spilt the round with the local team.

Matched up against Drake again in the fourth round, Team Silver won both final ballots. With an overall record of five wins and three losses, Dartmouth was ranked tenth in the Main division. Ellis received an individual award as one of the tournament's top witnesses.

In mock trial competitions participants prepare the roles of attorneys and witnesses based upon a fact pattern used nationwide and provided each year by a national governing body, the American Mock Trial Association. Students then try the case against teams from other colleges and universities by competing in regional and national-level tournaments. Rounds are judged by practicing attorneys or judges, and competitors are scored based upon the professionalism and effectiveness of the cases they present. The top teams from each tournament are given bids to the National Intercollegiate Tournament in either Florida or Kentucky and the National Championship Tournament in Des Moines. The winners of the Florida and Kentucky national tournaments are also given bids to compete in the National Championships in Des Moines, making the Des Moines competition the nation's most elite and competitive tournament. Competitions consist of four rounds with two judges each, for a total of eight potential "ballots" to win each tournament.

Dartmouth's Mock Trial Society and its competition teams are student-led and student-directed.

More information about the Dartmouth Mock Trial Society at: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mtrial/

Davis Article on Greenhouse Gases

An article by Christopher P. Davis '76, "Greenhouse Gas Management Strategies for U.S. Corporations," appears in Metropolitan Corporate Counsel -April 2005 Issue -Special Feature Articles. Chris' co-author is Aladdine Joroff. Chris is a partner with Goodwin Proctor LLP in Boston. Direct link to the article.

If you know of an article by a DLA member recently published and accessible online, please drop me an email (webster "at" DLA.org) about it with the link, for the DLA Weblog.

Doug Simpson '70
DLA's "Webster"

Stephen Pollak '50 Honored by Dartmouth Club of D.C.

Just in from the Dartmouth Club of the District of Columbia:

The 18th Annual Daniel Webster Distinquished Service Award Dinner is coming up this Saturday, April 16, 2005 at the Freedom Forum in Arlington, Virginia at 7:00pm. The Webster Dinner is the Club's premier event of the year. This year, the Club will honor Stephen J. Pollak '50 for his unmatched record of leadership and personal commitment to programs of social justice and anti-discrimination in Washington. He was Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the late 60's, President of the D.C. Bar, and is a founder of the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. He has tirelessly promoted better access to legal representation by under-served members of our Washington community.

If you are not already on the list of alumni registered to attend, here's what one local alumnus had to say about last year's event:

"I'd like to share my experience at the Webster Dinner in 2004. After several years of living in the Washington area, I attended the dinner for the first time last year. The evening began as my wife and I mingled with alums on the terrace at the top of the Freedom Forum; as the sun descended over Washington, we were treated to the most magnificent view of our majestic city that I have ever seen. As we later ate a sumptuous meal and heard a rousing speech from the evening's honoree, Susan Dentzer '77, we were reminded once again of the remarkable company we keep as alumni of Dartmouth, and how powerful connections to the College on the Hill can be. Of course, my wife and I will not be hesitating to sign up again this year!"

Please be sure to sign up right now at: http://dartmouthdc.org/events.html#webster2005

Looking forward to seeing you this Saturday!

Best wishes,

Derek Symer '90, VP Dartmouth Club of Washington, D.C.

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Doug Simpson '70
DLA "Webster"

Public Lectures & Workshops at Rockefeller Center

The Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and Social Sciences at Dartmouth College is hosting a series of public events with sponsorship by the Dartmouth Lawyers Association. Here are details just in from the Events Director at Rockefeller. More information at: http://rockefeller.dartmouth.edu

THURSDAY, APRIL 21
4:30 PM, 3 ROCKEFELLER HALL
THE WILLIAM H. TIMBERS ('37) LECTURE
"World Law and the Crisis of the Western Legal Tradition"
Harold J. Berman, Professor of Law, Emory University
A Dartmouth Legal Studies Program
Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Lawyers Association

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11
4:30 PM, 3 ROCKEFELLER HALL
THE ROGER S. AARON ('64) LECTURE
"The Late, Great American Public: The Moral Significance of the National Community and Its Decline"
Stephen Macedo, Director, University Center for Human Values
and Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics, Princeton
A Dartmouth Legal Studies Program
Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Lawyers Association
These Faculty Workshop events are sponsored by the DLA:

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Spring 2005 Schedule
12:15 to 1:45pm PM, Class of 1930 Room

Thursday, April 14
Larry Crocker, Visiting Faculty, Philosophy Department, Dartmouth College
"Perception and Reality of American Criminal Justice"
Sponsored by the Dartmouth Lawyers Association
Tuesday, May 10
Thomas A.J. McGinn, Associate Professor of Classics, Women's Studies Program, Vanderbilt University
"Roman Family Law - The Fundamentals"
Sponsored by the Dartmouth Lawyers Association
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If DLA members would like to be included in the email list the Events Director uses to announce upcoming Faculty Workshops, please email your address to Judy Fothergill (Judith.Fothergill "at" Dartmouth.EDU) with that request.

More information at: http://rockefeller.dartmouth.edu

Doug Simpson '70
DLA "Webster"