CC ADR Board

Caroline Azem
2024 Spr CoL Winning Team
2025 3rd Place ABA Regionals
2026
Kendall Crispin
2024 Spr CoL Winning Team
2025 3rd Place ABA Regionals
2026
Jessica Bury
2024 Fall CoL Winning Team
2025
2026
Lucas Sodaro
2024 Fall CoL Winning Team
2025
2026

Advisor/Coach: Professor Chris Opie

Board Member Duties:

CC ADR Board Members help put on the College’s Annual Informational Demonstration session each fall to recruit students for the upcoming competition. Two board members will portray the attorneys and one board member will portray the client to showcase a condensed competition round at the Info Session hosted by Professor Noonan and Competition Director Deanna Shumard.

Members also assist Director Shumard with the intraschool competition by staging rooms, monitoring the team check-in table, answering questions from teams on the night of competition. They also help host two workshops and hold office hours prior to the intraschool competition. Board members are also responsible for filling in for any last-minute cancellations of a judge or an actor. A minimum two board members are required for these duties each evening of competition and are provided with dinner.

FALL 2025 Intraschool TopicEmployment Law
Information/Demonstration SessionLate September/Early October @ Time TBD / Room TBD
Professor Noonan; Director Shumard; 3 Board Members (2 attorneys/1 client) – use last year’s final round problem
Intraschool Team Sign-Up DeadlineOctober 3 @ 1:00 pm via Google Docs
Board Member Duties on Competition Evenings

2 Board Members on duty each night of competition to:
* stage rooms prior to competition (5:50 – 6:20)
* answer questions from check-in survey @ 6:15, 7:15, and 8:15
* put rooms back at end of night (9:30)
Preliminary RoundsOct 29 & 30 / 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Semifinal RoundNov 4 / 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Final Round
Winning JD team will join CC board
Nov 6 / 6:30 – 10:00 p.m
(The CC teams are encouraged – but not required – to view the Final)

Current and Prior Year Intraschool Competition Topics

YEAR
  • 2025
  • 2024 Fa
  • 2024 Sp
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • 2006
  • 2005
  • 2004
  • 2003
  • 2002
COMPETITION TOPIC
  • Employment Law
  • White Collar Crime
  • K-12 Education
  • Transactional Contracts
  • Civil Rights
  • Entertainment & Amateur Sports
  • Estate Planning
  • Professional Responsibility of Legal Professionals
  • Intentional Torts
  • Privacy Law
  • Criminal Law & Procedure
  • Family Law
  • First Amendment Law
  • Employment Law / Discrimination
  • K-12 Education / School Law
  • Professional Responsibility of Lawyers & Judges
  • White Collar Crime
  • Negligence & Related Torts
  • Civil RIghts / Civil Liberties
  • Family Law & Relations
  • Employers & Employees
  • Sports & Entertainment Law
  • Nuisance Law & Disputes Between Neighbors
  • ?
  • Environmental Law

ABA Client Counseling Competition
Email: dshumard@illinois.edu