Easterwood Coaches Stetson to Another Championship, Grant Named Best Advocate
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Matt Easterwood Coaches Stetson to Another Championship, James Grant Named Best Advocate
The Stetson University College of Law Trial Team won The Florida Bar Chester Bedell Memorial Mock Trial Competition for the 18th time on Jan. 15 in Miami. This is Stetson’s third win in four years against all other competing Florida law schools. All 10 Florida law schools sent two teams each to the competition this year.
“Stetson is proud to again be honored with a win at this prestigious statewide competition,” said Stetson Professor Lee Coppock, who coached the winning team along with former Stetson Trial Team champion Matt Easterwood. “We pride ourselves in producing the best advocates and in having the best advocacy program in the nation.”
Stetson’s team of James Grant, Katelyn Knaak, Christian Radley and George Root defeated students from Barry University in the final round of the statewide competition. James Grant was selected as Best Advocate at the competition.
Stetson has consistently placed as a top law school for trial advocacy since the U.S. News & World Report started the rankings.
James Grant is scheduled to graduate from Stetson in May, 2009, and has accepted a position at the Grant Law Group, where he will practice with Matt Easterwood, who was on the winning Stetson team of The Florida Bar Chester Bedell Memorial Mock Trial Competition in 2007, and was also named Best Advocate of the competition. Matt Easterwood and James Grant both say they are looking forward to reminding Managing Partner Johnny Grant that when he competed in the tournament in 1993, his Stetson team finished as a runner-up to another Stetson team.
While he did not win as an advocate, Johnny Grant is a part of the rich tradition that the Grant Law Group with this tournament. He has coached four Florida Bar Chester Bedell Memorial Mock Trial Competition championship teams.