Loyola of Los Angeles Wins 2005 Kraft W. Eidman Award in National Trial Competition; Annual Award Funded by Fulbright & Jaworski.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- The international law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. announced that Loyola Law School's Byrne Trial Advocacy Team was presented with the Kraft W. Eidman Award from the American College of Trial Lawyers The American College of Trial Lawyers is a professional trial organization composed of trial lawyers from the United States and Canada. Founded in 1950, the College is dedicated to maintaining and improving the standards of trial practice, the administration of justice and the for winning the 2005 National Trial Competition. The award is funded each year by a grant from Fulbright & Jaworski and includes a monetary award of $10,000 for the winning law school. Fulbright partner James B. Sales, a Fellow of the College who headed the firm's litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. department for 20 years, presented the award to the school, as well as plaques to each of the winning team members. They were Melissa Lyons, who was also named the tournament's "Best Advocate," Katie McCann and Brian Ward Brian Ward is political operative at the parliament of the European Union in Brussels, aligned with the Irish political party Fine Gael. Early life Brian was born in Dublin in 1981. He was brought up in Raheny where he continues to live while in Ireland. . Speakers at the award ceremony held at the school in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or , included James W. Morris III, president of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and David Burcham, Dean of Loyola Law School Loyola Law School is the law school of Loyola Marymount University, a private Jesuit school in Los Angeles, California. Loyola was established in 1920. Like Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law (separate and unaffiliated . The award was first given at the College's annual meeting in 1986. It was established in honor of Kraft Eidman, who served as managing partner of Fulbright & Jaworski from 1973 to 1979. Each year, the competition begins with regional tournaments. There were 150 ABA-accredited law schools around the country competing this year at the regional level. Winners of these tournaments advance to the national competition which involved 26 teams this year. The Loyola team participated in six criminal trials in winning the national tournament. Helen Duncan, head of the firm's Los Angeles litigation practice, said, "Loyola is a valuable resource for the legal profession and the community as a whole. This success in a national competition certainly reconfirms our confidence in Loyola as an excellent training ground for future attorneys." There are currently six attorneys in Fulbright's Los Angeles office that are graduates of Loyola, including partner Tim Bruinsma, J.D. 1973, cum laude, who serves on the school's Board of Overseers. In addition, his father was once Dean of Loyola Law School. The American College of Trial Lawyers also sponsors the National Moot Court A method of teaching law and legal skills that requires students to analyze and argue both sides of a hypothetical legal issue using procedures modeled after those employed in state and federal appellate courts. Competition. Frank Jones, co-partner-in-charge of the Fulbright Houston office, is chair of the National Moot Court Competition Committee. Fellowship in the College is composed of the best of the trial bar from the United States and Canada and is extended by invitation only after careful investigation of candidates on a wide range of criteria. Fellowship in the College cannot exceed one percent of the lawyer population of any state or province. There are approximately 5,400 members in the United States and Canada and Great Britain, including active Fellows, Emeritus Fellows, Judicial Fellows and Honorary Fellows. Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Founded in 1919, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. is a leading full-service international law firm, with approximately 900 attorneys in 11 offices in Houston, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Washington, D.C., Austin, Dallas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, San Antonio, Hong Kong, London and Munich. Fulbright provides a full range of legal services legal services n. the work performed by a lawyer for a client. to both domestic and foreign clients worldwide. The 2005 BTI BTI Beverage Testing Institute BTI Boyce Thompson Institute BTI British American Tobacco (stock symbol) BTI Boston Theological Institute Bti Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis BTI BioTechnology Institute BTI Binding Tariff Information survey of FORTUNE 1000 general counsel chose Fulbright as a "Top 30 Best A-Team Law Firm" and Corporate Board Member magazine named Fulbright among the top 20 corporate law firms in the U.S. in their survey of board members of public companies. For more information, visit www.fulbright.com. |
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