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Baylor University School of Law Wins ABIs 14th Annual Moot Court Competition

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size='3'>Baylor University School of Law Wins ABI’s
14th Annual Moot Court Competition

MARCH 22, 2006,
w:st='on'>Alexandria,
w:st='on'>Va. —A team from the
Baylor University School of Law won the 14th Annual Chief Judge Conrad
B. Duberstein National Bankruptcy Memorial Moot Court Competition,
defeating a team from the Mississippi College School of Law in the final
round. A record 53 teams, comprised of 2-3 students each, from 38
American Bar Association (ABA)-accredited law schools took part in this
year’s competition in
w:st='on'>New York from March 17-20. The
competition, the nation’s only moot court competition devoted
entirely to bankruptcy, is jointly sponsored by American Bankruptcy
Institute (ABI) and St.
John’s
w:st='on'>University
w:st='on'>School of Law, and is named for
w:st='on'>St. John’s
alumnus and former ABI Director Chief Judge Conrad B. Duberstein.

The ABI Endowment
Fund provided the first-place winners with $5,000 and the second-place
team with a $3,000 prize.
w:st='on'>University of
w:st='on'>Tennessee College of Law and
w:st='on'>Hofstra
University each
received $1,500 for their third-place tie. The Mississippi
College team also won for the Best Brief.
Jose Jiminez, a student at the University of Miami School of Law, earned
recognition as Best Oralist.

Leading  bankruptcy
lawyers and judges helped judge the event, which included eight rounds
of arguments. The final-round judges were Judge Thomas Ambro (U.S. Court
of Appeals, Third Circuit), Judge Stuart M. Bernstein (Chief Bankruptcy
Judge, S.D.N.Y), Judge Melanie Cyganowski (Chief Bankruptcy Judge,
E.D.N.Y.), Judge Edith Hollan Jones (
w:st='on'>Chief Judge,
U.S.
Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit) and Judge Jeffrey Sutton (U.S. Court of
Appeals, Sixth Circuit).

This year’s event also
commemorated the late Chief Judge Duberstein’s lifelong
contributions to the bankruptcy system during a special tribute at the
Gala Awards Banquet on March 20.

Further
information on the 14th Annual Chief Judge Conrad B.
Duberstein National Bankruptcy Memorial Moot Court Competition, as well
as information on previous winners, can be found at
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multi-disciplinary, nonpartisan organization dedicated to research and
education on matters related to insolvency. ABI was founded in 1982 to
provide Congress and the public with unbiased analysis of bankruptcy
issues. The ABI membership includes more than 11,000 attorneys,
accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround
specialists and other bankruptcy professionals providing a forum for the
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