RALEIGH — Campbell Law Dean J. Rich Leonard has announced that Whitfield, Bryson & Mason LLP is financially sponsoring a team of Campbell Law student advocates.
The firm is sponsoring a team that will compete at the Lone Star Classic Mock Trial Challenge on Oct. 18-20 in San Antonio, Texas. Campbell Law has finished in the Final Four twice in the past three years at the competition heading into this year’s event.
The team includes Misty Juhasz (3L), Keith Boyette (3L), Ryan Crofts (3L) and Carlie Spencer (2L). The team is coached by Brittany Stiltner ’15, who is an associate at Warren, Shackleford & Thomas.
“Whitfield, Bryson & Mason has financially paved the way for our student advocates, and we are blessed to enjoy our relationship with them,” Leonard said. “Their gift provides the opportunity for our students to learn, get competitive experience and show the rest of the country how our first-class advocacy program is molding the future leading attorneys of tomorrow. We are in debt to them for their generosity.”
The Lone Star Classic Mock Trial Challenge is an annual invitational mock trial tournament open to ABA-accredited law schools nationwide hosted by St. Mary’s University School of Law’s Board of Advocates.
Dan Bryson is a 1988 Wake Forest Law graduate and a founding partner with the firm. One of the nation’s most respected and experienced attorneys in the area of defective consumer products and particularly construction products, Bryson has been lead, co-lead or a steering committee member in numerous successful MDL or class actions. He is on the Executive Board and Secretary of the Public Justice Foundation Board, a nationwide public interest law firm as well as an adjunct professor at Campbell Law, where he teaches introduction to Class Actions and Multi-District Litigation.