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The moot court team of 2L Jim Mathew, 2L Chad McLain and 3L Jeanette Walston won the Chicago Bar National Moot Court Competition. The team was coached by Johannes Walker '07.

A Texas Wesleyan School of Law moot court team won the Chicago Bar National Moot Court Competition held on Nov. 18–20. The team also received the 2nd Best Brief Award. 

The moot court team consisted of 2L Chad McLain (oralist), 2L Jim Mathew (oralist) and 3L Jeanette Walston (brief writer). Johannes Walker ’07, staff attorney to the Hon. Bill Meier at the Second Court of Appeals, was the team’s coach. The team competed against teams from Northwestern University Law School and Thomas Jefferson School of Law in the preliminary rounds, Pepperdine University School of Law in the octo-finals round, Southwestern Law School in the quarter-finals round, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in the semi-finals round and Pepperdine in the final round. 

This win marks the fourth moot court national championship for Texas Wesleyan, along with one international championship. 

“To go to a national competition and win is a tribute to the hard work these students put in from the very first day they got the problem. The team wrote an excellent brief, and the judges at this competition, many of whom were actual federal and state judges, consistently praised the oralists’ keen understanding of the law,” Walker said.