I participating in advocacy translates to a career in law by helping students learn essential advocacy skills. These are skills of appearing before a judge, standing before a jury, sitting before an arbiter or a mediator, and speaking with your client as well as opposing counsel, we teach students those advocacy skills during law school. Other students, they don't learn those skills until after they graduate. It's when they're actually working in their first maybe one through three years of working as an associate or working at a prosecutor or PDS office here at Mercer law school, we try to get ahead of that and give our students an advantage by teaching those skills. During law school, I
decided to sign up for the Mercer advocacy program because I knew it would be the best investment in myself and my future practice. I wanted to be a practice ready lawyer whenever I left Mercer, and I knew that joining this program was the way to do that. Mercer advocacy program has several teams. So we have various things to offer for different students and their personalities. We have mock trial team, moot court team, mediation teams, negotiation, arbitration and client counseling. I just think that I've become more confident in myself and believing that the things I thought I could do, I really can do them, and I am doing them. You have
a bunch of abstract classes, and you're getting the law, but you're not really getting to apply it to real world facts. And so Mercer, especially the advocacy program, does a good job of taking that abstract law that you're learning and then you get to apply it to a very real feeling scenario. If you like competition, if you're not scared of the competition and you're ready to be a part of winning, you definitely want to join the advocacy program. I'm very grateful for the experience. I'm humbled by the success of this program.
The Mercer advocacy program makes sure that there's really a place for every Mercer law student, no matter if you're better suited for mediation or suited for appeals. We try and make sure we look at what fosters your growth as a lawyer and what fosters your readiness to be practice ready across the board, there has been success, success in the type of lawyer we put out success in competitions. You know, some programs are excellent at mock or excellent at moot. Here at Mercer, we make sure we put in the time and the resources to make sure you're excellent across the board.
