Ben and Drew are joined by AMTA Board Candidate and University of Chicago coach Sam Jahangir for a roundtable discussion on the 2020 AMTA Board meeting. Topics covered include the decision to move the 2020-21 season online, the decision to scrap the original 2020-21 case topic, the motion to permit the CRC to issue warnings, the motion to ban scouting, and the fact that the Board meeting was live streamed this year. Ben also announces that he's now running a law school mock trial program in addition to UMBC, and Drew announces that he'll be doing some teaching this summer for Mock On Academy. ...
On the latest episode, Ben and Drew chat again with Justin Bernstein about the 2019 Trial by Combat tournament hosted by Drexel Law and UCLA Law, and get an exclusive preview of the case before its release on Friday. Additionally, 2019 Trial by Combat competitor Jonathan Kuang (of UCLA Mock Trial) joins the podcast to talk about west coast mock, his disastrous first attempt at playing a witness, and why he's excited to compete at TBC. ...
Now that we've got a few weeks of virtual Mock Trial behind us, Ben and Drew sit down to discuss everything we're seen from the Fall 2020 season so far. Ben and Drew break down the AMTA invitational results, discuss Drew's recent experience at Empire, talk about Ben releasing State v. Gardner (the Maryland High School Mock Trial 2020-21 case packet), and go through what they're seeing so far with online mock trial and how it works. ...
