Devin Huggins and Alex Bell of Baylor Law School won the Mack Kidd Administrative Law Moot Court Competition in Austin in October. Also reaching the final round were Daniel Werlinger, Maureen Semple-Hirsh, and Billy Davis from South Texas College of Law. Sixteen teams from Texas law schools participated in the tournament, which is sponsored by the Administrative Law Section of the State Bar of Texas.
Wade Glover, Shatorree Bates, and Jonathon Clark of Texas Tech University School of Law won the Best Brief Award. Mr. Huggins of Baylor was honored as the tournament's top advocate; Joel Bailey, who was a second Baylor team, was honored as the competition's second-best advocate.
Yet another Baylor team, Rob George and Lane Haygood, advanced to the semifinals. I presume another team did as well, and I'd bet it's from Texas, though I'll be danged if I know who it is.
Success in this tournament (and competitive advocacy in general) is nothing new for Baylor's students. The school swept the top two spots in last year's admin law competition, and it has won the ten year-old tournament five times. One of the team's coaches, Professor Ron Beal, literally wrote the book on Texas administrative practice and procedure.
More details are in Baylor's press release; Texas Tech offers this report about the best brief award.
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