When regionals and nationals approach, meetings ordinarily become daily. Other team meetings usually revolve around practice for individual lawyers and witnesses. Our theory is that everyone at Chapmanis good enough to be on a team. If your good enough for CU, your good enough for us. Our aim is to educate, not to eliminate.
Teams work within themselves to determine roles.
All members are offered equally important positions and by the end of three years everyone should have had the opportunity to do an opening statement and closing argument in a regional tournament. Many other universities offer Mock Trial competition as the only means to learn trial advocacy. The concept of the Mock Trial Society encompasses other means of learning advocacy than just collegiate competition. Most of the information we need to know for competitions, i.e. Rules of Court and affidavits, we remember by just practicing a lot. Information such as the Rules of Court are based off the actual rules used in Federal Courts, though our rules for Mock Trial are condensed versions.