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You’ll work closely with faculty advisors, alumni coaches, and volunteer judges who will serve as mentors and lifelong career resources.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p></div></section><section class="section-widget section-widget--accordion"><h2>Empowering Advocates</h2><div class="silc-accordion" id="silc-accordion-635114" data-silc-accordion-animated><div class="silc-accordion__section"><button id="accordion-section-635114-label" class="silc-accordion__label" aria-controls="accordion-section-635114-content">Representative Courses</button><div class="silc-accordion__content" id="Acc-Representative Courses" aria-labelledby="accordion-section-635114-label"><div class="silc-accordion__content-compartment"><div class="text-content"><ul> <li class="p2">Advanced Trial Advocacy</li> <li class="p2">Alternative Methods of Dispute Resolution</li> <li class="p2">American College of Trial Lawyers’ Advanced<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Trial Skills Program</li> <li 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Advanced<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Appellate Advocacy</li> <li class="p2">Writing in Law Practice: Advanced Writing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in Federal Civil Litigation</li> <li class="p4">Writing in Law Practice: Pretrial Litigation</li> </ul></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="section-widget section-widget--accordion"><div class="silc-accordion" id="silc-accordion-635116" data-silc-accordion-animated><div class="silc-accordion__section"><button id="accordion-section-635116-label" class="silc-accordion__label" aria-controls="accordion-section-635116-content">Clinics</button><div class="silc-accordion__content" id="Acc-Clinics" aria-labelledby="accordion-section-635116-label"><div class="silc-accordion__content-compartment"><div class="text-content"><ul> <li class="p2">Civil Rights of Persons with Disabilities Clinic</li> <li class="p2">Consumer Bankruptcy: Legal Theory<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and Practice</li> <li class="p2">Consumer Protection Clinic</li> <li class="p2">Environmental Law Clinic</li> <li class="p2">Gender Violence Clinic</li> <li class="p2">Immigration Clinic</li> <li class="p2">Intellectual Property and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Entrepreneurship Clinic</li> <li class="p4">Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic</li> <li class="p2">Mediation Theory and Practice Clinic</li> <li class="p2">Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic</li> <li class="p2">Public Health Law Clinic</li> <li class="p3">Youth, Education, and Justice Clinic</li> </ul></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="section-widget section-widget--accordion"><div class="silc-accordion" id="silc-accordion-635117" data-silc-accordion-animated><div class="silc-accordion__section"><button id="accordion-section-635117-label" class="silc-accordion__label" aria-controls="accordion-section-635117-content">Competitive Advocacy Opportunities</button><div class="silc-accordion__content" id="Acc-Competitive Advocacy Opportunities" aria-labelledby="accordion-section-635117-label"><div class="silc-accordion__content-compartment"><div class="text-content"><ul> <li class="p2">Alternative Dispute Resolution Team</li> <li class="p2">Bankruptcy Moot Court Team</li> <li class="p2">Health Law Regulatory and Compliance<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Competition</li> <li class="p2">Health Law Transactional Competition Team</li> <li class="p2">International Moot Court Board</li> <li class="p2">Moot Court Board</li> <li class="p2">National Health Law Moot Court Competition</li> <li class="p2">National Moot Court Team</li> <li class="p2">National Trial Advocacy Team</li> <li class="p2">Pace National Environmental Law Team</li> <li class="p2">Thurgood Marshall National Trial Team</li> <li class="p3">Transactional LawMeet</li> </ul></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="section-widget section-widget--accordion"><div class="silc-accordion" id="silc-accordion-635119" data-silc-accordion-animated><div class="silc-accordion__section"><button id="accordion-section-635119-label" class="silc-accordion__label" aria-controls="accordion-section-635119-content">Recent Competitions</button><div class="silc-accordion__content" id="Acc-Recent Competitions" aria-labelledby="accordion-section-635119-label"><div class="silc-accordion__content-compartment"><div class="text-content"><ul> <li class="p2">American Association for Justice</li> <li class="p2">Burton D. Weschler First Amendment Moot<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Court Competition</li> <li class="p2">Carolinas Invitational Mock Trial Tournament</li> <li class="p2">Cardozo Broadcast Music Inc. Moot<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Court Competition</li> <li class="p2">Lone Star Classic</li> <li class="p2">National Civil Trial Competition</li> <li class="p2">National Ethics Trial Competition</li> <li class="p2">National Health Law Moot<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Court Competition</li> <li class="p2">National Institute of Trial Advocacy</li> <li class="p2">National Moot Court Competition</li> <li class="p2">National White Collar Crime Mock<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Trial Invitational</li> <li class="p2">Texas Young Lawyers Association</li> <li class="p2">Tulane Mardi Gras Sports Law Competition</li> <li class="p2">Ruby R. Vale Interschool Corporate Moot<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Court Competition</li> </ul></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="section-widget section-widget--blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><div class="blockquote__quote"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="icon icon-left-quote" width="60" height="23"><use xlink:href="#icon-left-quote"></use></svg><div class="blockquote__quote-content">The National Trial Team will give you the opportunity to practice advocacy skills in front of judges and practitioners, which will prepare you for law practice on day one.</div><svg aria-hidden="true" class="icon icon-right-quote" width="60" height="23"><use xlink:href="#icon-right-quote"></use></svg></div><div class="blockquote__author"><div class="blockquote__author-content"><p class="blockquote__author-name">Benjamin Garmoe ’16</p><p class="blockquote__author-title">Salsbury Director of Trial Advocacy</p></div></div></blockquote></section></div> </div> </div> </div> </main><footer class="site-footer"><div class="max-bound"><div class="site-footer__main"><div class="site-footer__nav-info"><nav class="site-footer__nav" aria-label="Footer main"><ul><li><a href="/about/">About</a></li><li><a href="/contact-us/">Contact Us</a></li><li><a href="/aba-required-disclosures/">ABA Required Disclosures</a></li><li><a href="/log-in/">Log In</a></li></ul></nav><nav class="site-footer__info" aria-label="Footer information"></nav></div><div class="site-footer__nav-social"><nav class="site-footer__nav" aria-label="Footer utility"><ul><li><a href="https://www.umaryland.edu" target="_blank">UMB Home</a></li><li><a href="https://www.umaryland.edu/shuttlebus/" target="_blank">UMB Shuttle</a></li><li><a href="https://www.umaryland.edu/umbhotline/" target="_blank"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="27" height="33"><use xlink:href="#icon-hotline"></use></svg> UMB Hotline</a></li></ul></nav><nav class="site-footer__social" aria-label="Footer social media"><ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/MarylandCareyLaw" target="_blank"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="icon icon-facebook" width="15" height="15"><use xlink:href="#icon-facebook"></use></svg><span class="visible-for-screen-readers">Facebook</span></a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/UMDLaw" target="_blank"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="icon icon-twitter" width="15" height="15"><use xlink:href="#icon-twitter"></use></svg><span class="visible-for-screen-readers">Twitter</span></a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwGu4Feed5AGaeucceK25kg?disable_polymer=true" target="_blank"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="icon icon-youtube" width="15" height="15"><use xlink:href="#icon-youtube"></use></svg><span class="visible-for-screen-readers">Youtube</span></a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/marylandcareylaw" target="_blank"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="icon icon-instagram" width="15" height="15"><use xlink:href="#icon-instagram"></use></svg><span class="visible-for-screen-readers">Instagram</span></a></li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-maryland-school-of-law" target="_blank"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="icon icon-linkedin" width="15" height="15"><use xlink:href="#icon-linkedin"></use></svg><span class="visible-for-screen-readers">LinkedIn</span></a></li></ul></nav></div></div><div class="site-footer__sole"><div class="site-footer__copyright"><p>© University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law</p></div><div class="site-footer__address"><p>500 W. 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