IIT Chicago-Kent to participate in the third annual National Professional Responsibility Moot Court Competition

Second-year IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law students Lyal Fox III, Emily Herbick and Jared Reynolds will represent the law school in the third annual National Professional Responsibility Moot Court Competition. The tournament, sponsored by Indiana University's Robert H. McKinney School of Law, will be held March 14 to 15 in Indianapolis.

The competition is designed to give law students an opportunity to use their oral advocacy and appellate brief writing skills as they consider two specific professional responsibility questions. The students will argue a hypothetical case, Illiana Professional Responsibility Disciplinary Committee v. William Riker. At issue, is whether an attorney violated the rules of professional conduct by criticizing a judge and by causing his client to communicate with a represented party in an employment discrimination lawsuit brought by his client.

Team member Lyal Fox III graduated from Iowa University with a degree in English and theater arts. Teammate Emily Herbick completed her undergraduate education in journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Teammate Jared Reynolds graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Oneonta with a degree in sociology. The team is coached by third-year students Lisa DeLeon and Zeke Katz.

Established in 1888, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. IIT Chicago-Kent is the only law school ever to win the National Trial Competition and the National Moot Court Competition in the same year (2008), and the first school to win the National Moot Court Competition in two consecutive years (2008 and 2009).