Drew and Ben are joined by Stella Asmerom and Travis Harper of Harvard Mock Trial to discuss Harvard's victory at the 2022 AMTA National Championship in Lancaster, PA. Travis and Stella go through the last three years of their experience with Harvard, from their time as freshmen to building the team that eventually won it all. ...
On this week's episode, Ben and Drew cover the major decisions from the 2018 AMTA Board of Directors meeting in Las Vegas. We've got exclusive audio of AMTA President Will Warihay's introductory remarks at the meeting, and Ben and Drew walk through the discussion in the room on each of the major motions, including invention of fact, tournament structure, objections before openings/closings, raising the invitational license fee, and several others. ...
Civil Case Committee Chair and friend of the podcast Michael Gelfand joins Ben and Drew to discuss *Estate of Genesis Petrillo v. Harper Martini & Peony Estates*, the 2020-21 AMTA case packet. Mike covers what it has been like behind the scenes when the committee had to change topics on short notice, how the committee approached writing a packet they knew would be tried exclusively online, whether the committee was concerned about the complexity of a two-defendant case, and how the case committee approached building the stories and theories for this case. ...
