Associate Director For Training And Advocacy Competitions

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Associate Director for Training and Advocacy Competitions
The candidate will collaborate with the student honor societies to manage and oversee the annual competitions hosted by WCL. Provide training and support to student competition teams to ensure that students representing WCL in trial, appellate, ADR, or transactional law competitions are prepared for competition success. Develop new initiatives to expose all WCL students to all forms of excellence in advocacy. This position supervises the Assistant Director of Student Competition Teams. In addition, in collaboration with the Associate Director for Curriculum and LLM Programs, this position will supervise the Program Coordinators and any other support staff in the Advocacy Program. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
1. Hosting WCL Competitions: This position is responsible for the overall quality and management of all competitions hosted by WCL. This requires collaboration with student honor societies to ensure that all competitions are professionally managed and executed.
2. In collaboration with the Assistant Director of Student Competition Teams, implement and develop the Witness, Bailiff, & Juror Board, an initiative designed to provide WCL students with an opportunity to experience and support competitions hosted by WCL.
3. Coordination and Support of Student Competition Teams: in collaboration with the Assistant Director for Student Competition Teams, this position will oversee the quality of the training for all student competition teams and establish standards and practices to improve their competitiveness. This position will routinely participate in team practice sessions and/or review video recordings of practice sessions for quality control; manage the recruiting, training, and selection of coaches for student competition teams; and attend and support our students in trial, appellate, ADR and transactional law competitions, whenever possible.
4. Institute and maintain an Advocacy Council comprised of local judges, experienced practitioners, alumni, and stalwart supporters of the WCL Advocacy Program to assist with pre-competition practice sessions and serve as judges for the competitions hosted by WCL.
5. Non-Competition Training Programs: establish a program to provide all WCL students with opportunities go to area courthouses to observe trial and appellate proceedings; invite area appellate courts to conduct oral arguments at WCL; establish an Advocacy Speaker Series; plan and host the annual Skippy Weinstein Lecture.
6. Maintain and enhance the reputation of the Advocacy Program among our law school peers engaged in student advocacy training and student competitions; host and oversee the Annual WCL National Coaches and Competitions Clinic; and actively engage with trainers and student advocacy competition coaches at conferences and other professional events.
7. Academic Requirements: coach one trial team and one appellate or other WCL student competition team each year; teach four credits of advocacy courses each calendar year.
8. Institutional Service Requirements: this position serves as the liaison to the Office of Public Relations and Marketing; and will be a standing member of the Faculty Moot Court and Mock Trial Committee. Also, in collaboration with the Associate Director for Curriculum and LLM Programs, this position will oversee the administration of all Advocacy Program student awards, including the Eugene Hamilton Award, the Newman Prize, the Mooers Trophy, and the Civil Trial Advocacy Award. This position will also assist in the planning, preparation and execution of all Advocacy Program events.

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