Campbell Law advocates compete in virtual National All-Star Bracket Challenge

Campbell Law School once again competed in the Lone Star Classic on Oct. 15-17, 2020, but this year things were a little different.

For the past 20 years, St. Mary’s University School of Law has hosted the Lone Star Classic, where 16 to 24 teams across the nation travel to compete at Bexar County Courthouse in San Antonio, Texas. Due to the pandemic, the Lone Star Classic was replaced with the 2020 National All-Star Bracket Challenge, hosted by Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Quinnipiac University School of Law, University of California Berkeley Law, University of California Los Angeles School of Law and the University of San Diego School of Law.

Third-year law students Savannah Singletary and Oumayma El Hamzaoui, and second-year law students Sierra Lindquist, Kara Goray and Rebeka Parent, represented Campbell Law. The team was coached by Campbell Law alumna Brittany Stiltner and Meredith Kittrell.

Campbell Law advocates were among the 64 teams competing virtually in the National All-Star Bracket Challenge, where teams from across the country will be placed into four regional brackets to compete – East, South, Midwest and West.

“The team won two of the four rounds they competed in and received consistent praise from their judges for their advocacy and professionalism,” said their coaches. “Please congratulate them for making Campbell Law proud!”

The Lone Star Classic seeks to develop students as successful litigators in the criminal field by having the student advocates try a closely-contested criminal case.  Incorporation of viable case theories and the use of forensic evidence are hallmarks of the competition.