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Mock Court Competition for High School Youth


 
Cardozo Group Photo Magistrate Judge Kay
L: Cardozo Senior High School high school students, their teacher, and their Goodwin Proctor attorney mentors try out the jury box while they wait for signal to go to the Honorable Rosemary M. Collyer's courtroom for oral arguments.

R: Friendship Collegiate Academy students accept their awards from the Honorable Alan Kay. Looking on out of picture range was their attorney mentor from Covington & Burling.
 
Three Cardozo Students Judge Kennedy
L: Students from Anacostia Senior High School and their teacher await the start of the competition. Attorneys from O'Melveny & Myers mentored students from Anacostia Senior High as well as Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

R: The Honorable Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. presents an award to one of the winning orators.
 
Group Photo Magistrate Judge Robinson
L: Edmund Burke students, their teacher, and their attorney mentor from Chadbourne & Parke await the start of the competition in the Ceremonial Courtroom.

R: M.M. Washington Career High School students and the Honorable Deborah Robinson at the award ceremony that followed oral arguments. Howrey attorneys mentored the nearly two dozen M.M. Washington students who argued before Judge Robinson, the Honorable Ellen S. Huvelle, and the Honorable Ricardo M. Urbina. Also arguing before Judge Huvelle were students from Woodrow Wilson High School, who were mentored by attorneys from Shook Hardy & Bacon.
 
Judge Collyer
Judge Collyer and a Cardozo student share a light moment during oral arguments.
 
St. Albans Group Photo
St. Albans students, their teacher, and their attorney mentor from Wilmer Cutler (out of range) review their arguments in the well of the court while awaiting the Honorable Merrick Garland.