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Photos From the Competition
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2008


Bankruptcy judges Mary Grace Diehl (ND Ga), Thomas Bennett (ND Ala) and Joan Feeney (D. Mass) listen to a quarter-final argument

 


Students from the staff of the ABI Law Review and St. John’s School of Law Bankruptcy Law Society assisted in the competition

 


Finals judges Marjorie Rendell (3rd Cir), Mary Schroeder (9th Cir), Carla Craig (Bankr EDNY) (front row) and Jeffrey Sutton (6th Cir), Stuart Bernstein (Bankr SDNY) (center standing) are joined by the student finalists (standing left and right).


ABI President Reginald W. Jackson (Vorys Sater Seymour & Pease; Columbus, Oh) welcomes the crowd of 850 New York-area practitioners to the awards dinner.


1st Place: Competition director Prof. G. Ray Warner (St. John’s University School of Law)


Bankruptcy judges Elizabeth Stong (EDNY), Arthur Gonzales (SDNY) and Robert Drain (SDNY) preside over a semi-final round

2007


Albert Togut
Presenting the Ode to Chief Judge Duberstein

 


1st Place: Brooklyn Law School -Team No. 16 Competitors: Anna C. Burns and Robert J. Sitman

 

 

2006


1st Place: Baylor University School of Law – Team 2
Loren Reynolds and Deren Boswell
Brief writer:  Bethany Espinoza

 


Best Advocate: Jose Jimenez
University of Miami School of Law- Team 1

 


Best Brief and Second Place team

Mississippi College - Team 2
Scott Jones and Katie Childs

2005


Chief Judge Conrad B. Duberstein with Prof. Robert Zinman

 


Chief Judge Conrad B. Duberstein with the competition winners Emily Dean & Matthew Jasinski from the University of CT Law School

 


13th Annual Moot Court Competition winners Emily Dean & Matthew Jasinski University of CT Law School


St. John's University School of Law Duberstein Committee & Final Round Judges

Back Row: Left to Right
Prof. Robert M. Zinman, Adam Guttell, Natalie Friedenthal, Jesse Rutter
Honorable Stephen D. Gerling, Chief Bankruptcy Judge, Northern District
of New York, Honorable Michael W. McConnell, United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, Gary Falkowitz & Lynne Nissan, Prof. G. Ray Warner, and Melanie J. Schmid

Front Row: Left to Right
Honorable Diarmuid O'Scannlain, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth
Circuit, Honorable Rosemary Gambardella, Chief Bankruptcy Judge, District of New Jersey, Honorable Conrad B. Duberstein, Chief Bankruptcy Judge, Eastern District of New York, Honorable Michael J. Melloy, United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit