On Saturday May 17, 2008, St. John’s University School of Law was
teeming with future lawyers and their families. The Catholic
Middle School Mock Trial Program brought together over 200 students
– mostly Seventh and Eighth Graders – to try their hands at being
trial lawyers and witnesses. Twenty-four teams from nine
different Catholic grade schools on Long Island participated.
The program was jointly sponsored by St. Brigid/Our Lady of Hope
Regional School in Westbury, St. John’s University School of Law,
and the Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic
Development.
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