UC Hastings Tang Team Captures Best Speaker at Nationals

UC Hastings 2L students Susan Tran and Matthew Tabo (pictured at right) finished as semi-finalists at the National Round of this year's Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition.  The pair also earned the award for Second Place Brief and Tran was awarded Best Speaker.  Seventy-two teams nationwide competed in this year's competition, with the top 16 advancing to the National Rounds in Los Angeles.  UC Hastings fielded two other teams at Nationals this year thanks to a strong showing at the San Francisco Regional: 2Ls Ivy Paek and Judy Yang, and 2Ls Alice Wang and Kelly Matayoshi (pictured below).

The Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition is administered by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA). The competition, held each year in conjunction with the annual NAPABA Convention, honors the late Judge Thomas Tang, a champion of individual rights and an advocate for the advancement of minority attorneys. The competition is open to all students but is especially designed to reach out to APA law students and provide them with an opportunity to showcase their writing and oral advocacy skills and compete for scholarships totaling $10,000.

Thanks to 3L student coaches Darren Chan, James de los Reyes and Carmen Lo, as well as to alumni coaches Teri Nguyen '09, Kyong Kim '10, Euborn Chiu '10, Kathy Dong '09 and Cary Chen '04. Thanks also to all the professors, alumni and other individuals who helped make these successes possible.

Please stay tuned to http://www.hastingsmootcourt.com/ to help our spring UC Hastings teams continue the winning tradition. You may also contact Toni Young '76, director of Moot Court, Appellate Advocacy, Legal Writing & Research, at younga@uchastings.edu to hear about other ways you or your firm can continue to support the strong tradition of Moot Court success at UC Hastings.