Symbiosis Law School - [SLS]

Symbiosis Law School, NOIDA in collaboration with Howard University School of Law, Washington D.C., USA has organised a Two Days Training Session on 'Mooting Skills, Legal Writing & Oral Advocacy' on December 16-17, 2022 in the Auditorium.

Mooting is an engaging and challenging co-curricular activity in law school. Requiring application of legal provisions and principles to hypothetical fact situations, mooting helps inculcate research, drafting and advocacy skills.

The training session is an activity that aims to inculcate and improve the research, presentation and argument talent into students so as to equip the budding pleaders with all the court-room etiquettes, research experience and advocacy skills. It aims at the following objectives: Get an overview of best practices for legal writing, research and oral advocacy Give exposure to learners to varying types of legal writing, including writing for clients, memos for supervising attorneys and advocacy briefs for the court Share tips of research strategies and the fundamentals of oral advocacy, including tips on how to organize, structure and prepare for oral arguments

Tiffany Williams Brewer | Assistant Professor of Law | Howard University School of Law, Washington D.C., USA

Tiffany Williams Brewer is an Assistant Professor of Law teaching courses in Evidence, Professional Responsibility, Legislation & Regulation and a seminar in Black Women & the Law. As a former New Jersey Administrative Law Judge, Judge Brewer brings her judicial experience into the classroom and the law school community. Judge Brewer has over 20 years of teaching experience as a full time and adjunct professor in law and public administration at universities in California, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. She has also taught courses in Legal Writing, Administrative Law, and Trial Advocacy and has directed student programs focusing on externships, mock trial and moot court. Judge Brewer is also a frequent international lecturer and trainer, having conducted legal writing, trial advocacy and judicial judgment drafting trainings in Saudi Arabia, India and throughout the African continent in conjunction with the African Union. Her scholarly focus spans several areas of her professional expertise including, examining the intersectionality of racial justice, ethics and religion, gender equity, global women's leadership, criminal justice reform for women and girls.

Judge Brewer was recently appointed by the New Jersey Governor as the first African-American to Chair the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation, an independent investigatory agency empowered to expose organized crime, government fraud and corruption. Throughout her career, Judge Brewer has served in high profile leadership roles in government including as an Administrative Law Judge, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Deputy Chief Counsel to the NJ Governor, Chief Counsel to the Speaker of the NJ General Assembly, NJ Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (overseeing the state's election system), and Regulatory Officer (agency counsel) at the NJ Civil Service Commission. In private practice, she has served as a litigation associate at several large law firms in Massachusetts and New Jersey. Judge Brewer started her career as a law clerk to the Honourable Frederick L. Brown in the Massachusetts Appeals Court. During law school, Judge Brewer had the unique opportunity to serve as an intern at the White House for the Office of Legal Counsel. Prior to law school, she also served as the Special Assistant to U.S. Senator Bill Bradley.

Judge Brewer is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New Jersey, the District of Columbia, the Supreme Court of the United States and various federal courts. As an active leader in the profession, Judge Williams currently serves as Secretary of the Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association and as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Previously she served as the ABA Deputy Representative to the United Nations, as an Associate Editor to the Litigation News magazine, member of the Section of Litigation Council and as Section of Litigation Managing Director.

If you need further information about the Training Session, feel free to contact the undersigned via email to global@symlaw.edu.in and copy to training@symlaw.edu.in