RALEIGH — Campbell Law School ranks eighth in Fordham University School of Law’s Trial Competition Performance Ranking (TCPR) for the 2016-2021 academic years. Campbell Law is the only North Carolina law school to make the five-year list’s Top 10.
Campbell Law advocates have earned a cumulative total of 38 points since Fall 2016 tying for eighth with Chicago-Kent’s law school.
The TCPR is an objective snapshot of achievement in interscholastic law school trial competitions, according to Fordham’s Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center.
Performance Rankings Top 20
Fordham University School of Law’s Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Center
| Fall 2016 – Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UCLA | 78 points | |||
| 2 | Stetson | 58 points | |||
| 3 | Fordham | 49 points | |||
| 4 | Cumberland, Samford | 46 points | |||
| 5 | Drexel-Kline | 45 points | |||
| 6 | Baylor | 42 points | |||
| 7 | Georgetown | 39 points | |||
| 8 | Campbell | 38 points | |||
| Chicago – Kent | 38 points | ||||
| 10 | American | 37 points | |||
| Loyola (Chicago) | 37 points | ||||
| South Carolina | 37 points | ||||
| 13 | St. Johns | 35 points | |||
| Wake Forest | 35 points | ||||
| 15 | Northwestern | 34 points | |||
| Temple | 34 points | ||||
| 17 | UC Berkeley | 33 points | |||
| 18 | Harvard | 32 points | |||
| 19 | Denver | 31 points | |||
| Syracuse | 31 point | ||||
Associate Director of Advocacy Programs and Competitions at American University Washington College of Law Joe Lester compiles all competition results at www.trialteamcentral.org. Learn more about his methodology at this link.
According to the Fordham website, the TCPR recognizes success at these competitions as one indicator of an effective trial advocacy education. The TCPR is not a measurement of a law school’s overall trial advocacy program. The TCPR cannot measure breadth of offerings, quality of teaching, or most importantly, student learning. The unwavering goal of trial advocacy education should be to prepare law students to advocate and win trials on behalf of their clients while maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards. Achievement at competitions can be an attending (albeit fun) byproduct of that quality education for those school that choose to participate.
In addition to Fordham’s ranking, U.S. News has ranked Campbell Law among the Top 21 schools for trial advocacy three times in the past four years and preLaw Magazine once again ranked Campbell Law among its Top Law Schools for Trial Advocacy in its Winter 2022 issue.
ABOUT CAMPBELL LAW
Since its founding in 1976, Campbell Law has developed lawyers who possess moral conviction, social compassion, and professional competence, and who view the law as a calling to serve others. Among its accolades, the school has been recognized by the American Bar Association (ABA) as having the nation’s top Professionalism Program and by the American Academy of Trial Lawyers for having the nation’s best Trial Advocacy Program. Campbell Law boasts more than 4,500 alumni, who make their home in nearly all 50 states and beyond. In 2021, Campbell Law celebrated 45 years of graduating legal leaders and 12 years of being located in a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of North Carolina’s Capital City.