May 6, 2025

Mizzou Law 3L wins Women’s Justice Award

Karen Crouch, 3L, won the Leaders of Tomorrow Award at the Women’s Justice Awards Banquet hosted by Missouri Lawyers Media. The Leaders of Tomorrow award is given to women law students who demonstrate leadership, professionalism and a passion for making a difference in the justice system or the legal profession. To read more about Karen, visit: https://molawyersmedia.com/2025/04/09/wja-2025-leaders-of-tomorrow-karen-crouch/…

May 5, 2025

3L earns prestigious national trial advocacy award

Ethan Deimeke, a 3L at Mizzou Law, has been selected as an Academic All-American Trial Advocate by the National Association of Legal Advocacy Educators (NALAE).  This prestigious award is based on several factors, including competition success, academic achievement, and leadership in one’s law school and community. Only 20 of these awards were given to law students across the country in 2025.

April 30, 2025

Mizzou Law student research earns third place at graduate/professional council forum

Mizzou Law 3L Georgia Bronson, an executive member of the Business, Entrepreneurship, and Tax Law Review, presented her research: “Hey Girlie, Want to Sell Your Soul?” How the U.S. Can Counteract Predatory Cult Activities Through the Lens of Fraudulent Business Schemes at the 41st Research & Creative Activities Forum (RCAF) 2025. Her research article was published in the most recent issue of BETR, which can be read here. Bronson earned third place for her research in the humanities, socials, and liberal arts division. She was the only law student to be accepted and able to present within the whole forum as they focused…

April 21, 2025

Student Bar Association wins Mizzou award

The Student Bar Association was awarded Large Group of the Year at Mizzou’s Student Involvement Awards. The award is given to the recognized student organization (with membership over 120 individuals) that is recognized as best exhibiting an overall commitment to serving the members within the organization, the University of Missouri and surrounding Columbia community.  Receiving the award was SBA President Sophia Marcolla and Treasurer Adam Thomas.

April 9, 2025

2024-25 CALI Award Winners

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) Excellence for the Future Awards recognize students with the highest grade in each course at Mizzou Law. These were awarded at the annual Edna Nelson Awards Banquet this April. Below are the CALI Award winners for the 2024 calendar year. Spring 2024 CALI Winners Cody Deterding, Michael Moedritzer, Meghan McAuliff, Jordan Todd, Lauren Bean, Todd Hamby, Eric Siemens, Maggie Pfaff, Anna Miller, Bryce Rone, Andrew West, Brooks Fleischmann, Paige Harris, Caleb Ross, Hope Adamson, Alex Besharat, Jeff Giesmann, Adam Walker, Andrew Boyer, Steven Flanders, Paige Slusser, Hannah Rodriguez, Brett Newberry, Eric Humphrey, Macy…

Feb. 24, 2025

Mizzou Law team wins international moot court competition

Congratulations to the Mizzou Law team who won the Global Antitrust Institute’s annual moot court competition in Washington, DC! Austin Siener, 3L, and 2Ls Luke Nutwell and Eric Siemens defeated teams from around the world including Brazil, India and several top U.S. law schools! The Mizzou Law team survived six rounds of argument, including a final round judged by Judge Douglas Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (pictured); Bilal Sayyed, former director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy and Planning; and Adam Cella, Chief Counsel for the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust…

Feb. 11, 2025

Mizzou 3Ls win National Trial Competition regional tournament

Mizzou 3Ls Ethan Deimeke, Eric Humphrey and Rachel Carlson will compete in the NTC Nationals in Houston this April.

Feb. 6, 2025

Mizzou 3Ls finish 2nd in national competition

Congratulations to Mizzou Law 3Ls Liz Eastlund and Austin Siener for finishing second place in the MAC CUP II ABA M&A Committee National Invitational! The competition, which took place in Florida, featured teams from top law schools across the country. The Mizzou Law team won several rounds of competition before finishing second to a team from Duke Law School in the finals.Special thanks to the team’s coach Aaron Pawlitz of Lewis Rice for his mentorship.

Nov. 20, 2024

Students Play Key Role in Briefing in Federal Courts 

This semester, students in the Mizzou Law Veterans Clinic have played key roles in advocating for veterans before major courts. Two of the Clinic’s students, Rachel Elliott, 3L, and Brady Hays, 2L, worked on cases in United States federal courts.  Rachel Elliot, who is part of the Advanced Veterans Clinic, recently authored and submitted a brief to the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. After completing the necessary paperwork for admission to the Court as a law student and with the approval of the dean, Rachel was able to fully brief the case. Rachel drew on her prior experience…

Nov. 19, 2024

Following family footsteps for child and family justice

By Anna Sago Chuck and Hope Adamson have made the Child and Family Justice Clinic a family affair. Growing up, Hope Adamson has always had a close relationship with her dad, Chuck. It’s a relationship that only deepened after Hope, then a political science major at the University of Missouri, asked to shadow the elder Adamson, who heads the employment trial division at the Missouri Attorney General’s office, during a trial. “She comes out to this trial that ran six, seven days … so this was a long civil trial,” he said. “She saw everything … and at the end…