Community Events

The American Mock Trial Association (AMTA), a non-profit that hosts trial advocacy competitions for undergraduate students, invites you to judge at one of its tournaments February 19-20 and 26-27. These tournaments will all be hosted virtually on Zoom.

AMTA serves nearly 6,000 undergraduate students who attend institutions from community colleges to research universities. Mock trial provides an invaluable educational experience for students, regardless if they pursue a profession in a legal field. Our students are diverse along many dimensions including race, ethnicity, sexual identity, and sexual orientation. AMTA’s goal is to make its judging pool align with the diversity of the competitors and our nation, and we ask that you join us in creating a representative judging pool for our competitions.

Each trial takes approximately 3 hours to argue; on the Thursday before the tournament, all judges attend a 30-minute virtual training session that prepares them to serve as evaluators. To judge a mock trial tournament you do NOT have to be a litigator! Undergraduate mock trial competitions are speech contests that use a courtroom trial to teach critical and analytical thinking skills. Regardless of the type of law you practice, you can judge whether the arguments made by the competitors are compelling and persuasive. So, sign up—you will be amazed at the talents that you will see in these competitions.

To sign up to judge, just complete this registration form: https://www.collegemocktrial.org/registration/judge-registration/

Please join the Italian American Lawyers Association of Los Angeles

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 6:00 p.m.

IALA Networking Happy Hour

Holland & Knight

400 South Hope St., Los Angeles 90071

(on main floor outdoor patio)

Registration includes taco stand and open bar.

We thank our sponsor Holland & Knight for hosting this special networking night.

Proof of full vaccination needs to be emailed to buicostanzo46@gmail.com in advance.

Click here to register: http://www.iala.info/event-4637893

Note: SCCLA members may attend at the IALA Member Rate

https://asianjusticerally.org/

FREE CHOL SOO LEE is a full feature documentary that tells the story of a Korean American death row inmate convicted of a 1973 Chinatown gangland murder in San Francisco, and the activists who led a pan-Asian American movement to free him. Spanning the late 1970s to the early ’80s, this movement would for the first time bring together young, third-generation Asian American activists, many of them politically radical, with older, conservative Korean immigrants. Their unlikely victory, with Lee walking into freedom in 1983 after 10 years in prison, would inspire many young supporters to pursue careers dedicated to social justice. The film will explore the complex legacy of this landmark pan Asian American social movement, and how Lee and his supporters would intimately shape each other’s lives, during his imprisonment and long after his release. Nearly five decades later, FREE CHOL SOO LEE excavates a largely forgotten yet essential story, crafting an intimate portrait of the complex man at the center of the movement, and serving as an urgent reminder that Lee’s legacy is more relevant than ever.

PREMIERE SCREENING:

Fri. Jan. 21 8:30PM PST

Available Until Jan. 21 11:30 PM PST

SECOND SCREENING:

Sun. Jan. 23 7:00AM PST

Available Until Jan. 24 7:00AM PST

TO GET TICKETS

https://festival.sundance.org/program/#film-info/61ae0705b52cb5bd170fca03

Why I Decided to Run - Inspirational Stories of Elected APA Judges

Co-sponsored by CAPAJA and CAL-APABA

Jan 20, 2022 05:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1w1qmdATTN2zIVl8_CeEzQ