The advocacy program at Texas A&M Law offers you unique opportunities to develop the rhetorical skills and disciplines required to be an excellent lawyer and client advocate.
This comprehensive, experiential-based program led by experienced professors, judges, and attorneys prepares you to tackle a variety of complex challenges real lawyers face every day.
Competition is an excellent way to practice the skills you will need as an attorney. Through individual instruction and feedback and numerous opportunities to compete against fellow Texas A&M law students, as well as other law school teams from around the nation, you will develop the confidence, competence, and integrity necessary to excel in the legal profession.
You will work with local attorneys and professionals, forming professional networks that may assist in future job searches while honing the written and oral skills that are vital to a successful law career.
Our advocacy and negotiation teams have earned multiple awards and top finishes in various competitive arbitration, negotiation, client counseling, and national appellate advocacy competitions.
The Board of Advocates is a student honorary organization that promotes the development of advocacy skills in all law students. It offers regular training sessions, hosts annual intramural competitions at the law school, and provides support when the law school hosts competitions, such as the annual Texas Undergraduate Moot Court Competition or interscholastic competitions.
The Order of Barristers is a nationally recognized honorary organization that encourages the development of oral and written advocacy skills through effective law school programs by formally recognizing the best advocates these programs produce.
Students who demonstrate particular excellence and distinguish themselves in advocacy may be selected into the Order of Barristers — the highest honor an advocacy student can achieve.
Each law school is allowed to induct only 10 students per year, and inductees are presented with the national Order of Barristers’ medal to wear at graduation and a membership certificate.