STUDENTS BRING HOME HONORS IN COMPETITIONS
The Indiana Law Entrepreneurship Clinic team brought home the Entrepreneur’s
Choice award at the Venture Capital Investment Competition South Regional at Rice University in Houston on February 7. The team comprised 3Ls Steven Marino, Stephanie Atallah, David Saylor, and Douglas Sutton, along with Ashley Emerole, a second-year student at the Kelley School of Business. In the competition, the IU team sat as venture capitalists, hearing funding pitches from three real entrepreneurs, conducting due diligence, and then valuing the businesses, choosing a pitch, and drafting a term sheet for and negotiating with their chosen entrepreneur. The team chose to work with SOTAog, an oil-and-gas analytics business based in Houston.
Carolyn Griffith, ’20, was one of two winners at Baylor Law School’s fourth annual
The Closer competition. The Closer is a highly selective competition with invitations extended to law schools whose programming demonstrates a commitment to excellence in practical transactional law training. The deal that the participants negotiate is disclosed to the competitors less than 24 hours before the first round of negotiations. The tight timeline forces competitors to identify the most important legal issues and devise and negotiate solutions that best serve their client’s needs with the efficiency required of lawyers under realistic time constraints. “These are two highly competitive and prestigious competitions, the kinds of real-world opportunities that we are happy to offer to students,” said Mark E. Need, ’94, clinical professor of law and director of the school’s MBA program. “Our students worked hard to pull apart and analyze the underlying transactions.” 3Ls Betsy Astrup, Amanda Vaughn, and Alyssa Gerstner were runners-up in the Global Antitrust Institute Moot Competition at the E. Barrett Prettyman court house in Washington, DC, on February 22. This is the second year in a row the school fielded a team for the competition. “The team was amazing and put in untold hours over the past 2½ months,” said Prof. Shana Wallace, coach. “They earned this well-deserved honor.”
The Law School’s Public Interest Law Foundation raised over $18,000 in its annual
Singing for Summer Salaries event. The lunchtime fund-raiser before a capacity crowd 30
