McGeorge’s National Ethics Trial Competition was established in 2006 to promote ethical and civility awareness through the mock trial competition format. This law school-sponsored competition features both an ethical component in the issues to be tried and scoring based on the participants’ observation of ethical and civility principles. The competition provides an opportunity for student trial lawyers to develop and display their knowledge and skills of professional responsibility in trial work. Trials are judged by distinguished members of the bench and bar, including judges of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, Superior Courts of California, and members of the Anthony M. Kennedy and Milton Schwartz Inns of Court.