NHC Students pictures here in the U.S. Federal District Court

The NHC on Law and Advocacy is Endorsed by the Yale Mock Trial Association.

During your NHC on Law and Advocacy Program you will:

• Focus on team building and developing leadership
• Meet with judges, private and public sector attorneys, and law professors.
• Learn the various types of advocacy from negotiation to arbitration to trial.
• Learn and prepare opening statements, closing arguments, direct and cross examination, impeachment, and admission of evidence.

• Strategize with your partner and present a full trial — from opening statement to closing
  argument.
• Analyze the appellate issues arising from your trial.

Focused Field Trips
Visits to courthouses, law schools, and law firms.

Industry Panels
You will meet with civil and criminal attorneys who will share their personal journeys in the pursuit of a legal career and their experiences since achieving that goal. Topics may include: “Think About Law — the Many Careers of the Attorney” and “Prosecution or Defense — Picking Sides.”

For application information and to enroll online for the NHC on Law please click here.

To view a sample NHC on Law itinerary please click here

	2009 NHC on Law & Advocacy Session Dates Loyola Marymount University June 23-July 1, 2009 Emerson College July 11-July 19, 2009 Georgetown University July 25-August 2, 2009 NHC students pictured here outside our nations capitol
Each NHC on Law begins with the students participating in a Challenges Ropes Course.  During the course students learn to work as a team and challenge themselves as individuals.     NHC Students pictured here at Ropes Courses in Los Angeles, CA and near Baltimore MD
	NHC Students meet with judges and practicing lawyers. Students pictured here with a federal prosecutor and a federal district court judge at the D.C. District Court
NHC Students Participate in Different Advocacy Exercises.  NHC Students pictured here participating in a constitutional trivia bowl and a traditional Lincoln Douglas style debate moderated by a Federal District Court Judge
	NHC students present each phase of a trial and act as jurors for fellow students.   Students pictured here preparing for trial, questioning a witness, and in the jury box at the U.S. Federal District Court
In Addition to the intense legal curriculum, NHC students participate in Fun Field Trips.       NHC Students pictured here at at Universal Studios, Hollywood, Taking a Tour of the Capitol and hanging out