Federal Judiciary

Baylor Law School's "Practice Court" featured in magazine article

By Michael Smith

Baylor Magazine this month has a feature on Baylor Law School, focusing on the required Practice Court program.  Since several of the Eastern District of Texas judges who handle a large portion of the patent docket (Judges T. John Ward, Leonard Davis and Chad Everingham) attended Baylor Law, I thought readers might be interested in a brief excerpt.

Though mock trials have been practiced at Baylor since before the Civil War, the form and function of the 10-hour course has changed little since its inception in 1922.
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"PC is also one of the key things responsible for the tight Baylor network [says assistant professor and Practice Court I instructor Jim Wren].  Students establish real working relationships in the trenches together, which becomes the basis of the network when you come out of school."

Professor Jeremy Counseller, MBA '00, JD '00, agrees. "PC links all Baylor Lawyers who are or ever were. When I was in PC, I sat where my Practice Court professor sat, where his Practice Court professor sat, where every Baylor lawyer has sat since before the Civil War. PC is cosa nostra-it's our thing."

I just love equating Baylor University with the Mafia.  My PC professors (I'm a Muldrow/Powell) would be so proud.  They passed out (and in Powell's case, is still passing out) enough cement overshoes in their time.

Full post as published by Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice on March 26, 2008 (boomark / email).