Today (2/27/19), our Prosecution team faced an amazing team from Providence Christian Academy in the quarter finals for the Baltimore County Circuit. Franklin won the match and will continue to the semifinals next week on Wednesday March 6. Our Defense team will face Beth Tfiloh's Prosecution. Congratulations to Nada Abdalla, Maddie Ballan, Asia Chester, Jacob … Continue reading Prosecution Win in Quarter Finals for County

Congratulations to Ruben Amaya, Jenifer Fridman, Elise Glaser, Zach Hermann, Ethan Selko, and Lexi Taylor on our Defense team! Today (2/21/19) they won against an outstanding prosecution team from McDonogh School in the round of 16. Franklin has now advanced to the round of 8 teams in the county championship. Our next match will be … Continue reading Defense Win in Sweet Sixteen

Congratulations to Nada Abdalla, Maddie Ballan, Asia Chester, Jacob Epstein, Daisy Oberfeld, and Rita Rozental on their win against an outstanding Defense Team from Eastern Tech! Today (2/7/19) was Franklin's first single elimination match of the season. This means that in order to advance, Franklin must score higher than the opposing team. If not, we … Continue reading First Single Elimination Win

Congratulations to Nada Abdalla, Maddie Ballan, Asia Chester, Jacob Epstein, Daisy Oberfeld, and Rita Rozental on their win against a great team from Perry Hall High School today (2/5/19)! We are looking forward to heading into the single elimination portion of the MYLAW Mock Trial competition. To read about the case our Defense team tried, … Continue reading Prosecution Preliminary Win

Congratulations to Ruben Amaya, Jenifer Fridman, Elise Glaser, Ethan Selko, Lexi Taylor and Shemar Williams on our Defense team! Today (1/24/19) they won their first preliminary round in the Maryland Mock Trial Competition. This was our first match of the season, and was rescheduled due to snow on the original trial date. Our team played … Continue reading Defense Win at First Preliminary Match

Recently, our Mock Trial team received our case from MYLAW (Maryland Youth and the LAW), formerly known as CLREP) for our Maryland Mock trial Competition.  To read more about MYLAW, click here. Each year the case alternates from civil to criminal law.  Last year’s case, Slater v. Kapowski, which focused on a collision between two … Continue reading Maryland Mock Trial 2018 Case Released

This past weekend on November 10, 2018, four of our seniors, Maddie Ballan, Asia Chester, Jenifer Fridman, and Lexi Taylor, competed at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Moot Court Competition. Maddie and Lexi finished in the semifinals round and Asia and Jen won first place! At this competition, pairs of … Continue reading Maryland Moot Court Competition 2018

A HUGE congratulations to our mock trial team consisting of 13 people that traveled to Atlanta, Georgia this past weekend for our competition. Our team placed 3rd out of 32 teams in the competition that came from 17 states and 2 countries. Franklin's Mock Trial team, for this competition, consisted of Nada Abdalla, Maddie Ballan, … Continue reading Empire Mock Trial Results

In Atlanta, GA our mock trial team will be trying a case in the Empire Mock Trial Southern Showdown Competition. Continue reading for a summary of our case!   Our case takes place in the state of Empirion, a fictional state in the USA, that was colonized by the French. Colonel C. Griffus Michael took … Continue reading Empire Mock Trial Case Summary

This weekend 14 Franklin students competed in an international moot court tournament at Duke University. There were a couple of teams there from the American School in Taiwan, and one of our teams had the opportunity of playing them! In moot court, teams of two students present arguments to a court of college students or … Continue reading Duke Moot Court Competition