UND Law hosts regional rounds of National Trial Competition in Fargo Feb. 9-11

For the first time in its 119-year history, the University of North Dakota School of Law, together with the State Bar Association of North Dakota (SBAND), will host the regional rounds of the National Trial Competition on February 9-11, 2018 at the Cass County Courthouse in Fargo, N.D.

The Region 9 competition is made up of 12 schools from Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Each school will bring two teams to compete, with the winner advancing to the national trial competition in Texas.

Judge Ralph Erickson from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, other North Dakota Federal judges and all members of the North Dakota Supreme Court will judge the semi-final and final rounds.

“We are so grateful for the commitment by SBAND and the judges in our state to volunteer their time to make this competition a success,” said UND Law Dean Kathryn Rand.  “This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase UND School of Law and our bench and bar in North Dakota to the other law schools in the region.”

More than 400 volunteers are needed to hold the competition.  Volunteers include current law students at UND as well as undergraduate students from Concordia College, North Dakota State University and Moorhead State University and the larger Fargo-Moorhead community.

The competition begins Friday evening at 5 p.m. The complete schedule of rounds is as follows:

• Friday, February 9, 2018 – 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
• Saturday, February 10, 2018 – 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
• Saturday, February 10, 2018 – 12:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
• Sunday, February 11, 2018 – 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (semi-finals and final round)