Greene, Broillet, Panish & Wheeler, LLP to sponor National Invitational Tournament at Loyola Law School

Los Angeles -- Greene, Broillet, Panish & Wheeler, LLP of Santa Monica will sponsor Loyola Law School’s first annual National Civil Trial Advocacy Competition on November 14-16, 2002. The invitational tournament, the first of its kind on the West Coast, will be held in the courtroom of the downtown Los Angeles campus’ newly completed Albert H. Girardi Advocacy Center and other downtown locations.

Immediately upon announcing the competition, Loyola received 28 applications from ABA-accredited law schools for the 14 available slots. In addition to Loyola Law School, the 13 law schools selected to participate are: University of Akron, University of Alabama, Campbell University, Chicago-Kent College of law, Cumberland School of law, University of Florida, Georgetown, University of Houston, McGeorge, Pepperdine, South Texas College of Law, Temple and Syracuse. Most of these are considered to be the top schools in their regions for trial advocacy.

The purpose of the tournament is to provide student litigants with an opportunity to develop and display the skills of a successful civil litigator. Students will be required to perform opening statements, direct- and cross-examine expert and lay witnesses, and give closing arguments based on the Federal Rules of Evidence. The trial will be judged by distinguished members of the Southern California bar, including partners and associates from numerous Los Angeles civil litigation firms.

Greene, Broillet, Panish & Wheeler LLP is among the top performing plaintiffs’ trial law firms in California. The firm won the highest product liability verdict in history; a $4.9 billion award against General Motors.

Founded in 1920 in downtown Los Angeles, Loyola Law School produces the greatest number of graduates annually in the Western United States, and confers upon them one of three degrees: the juris doctor, the juris doctor/MBA, and the LL.M. in Taxation.

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