I've been coaching Mock Trial for over 20 years now. The importance is I give them immediate feedback. Immediate feedback regarding their presentation, ideas. You can get to the problem, when you see them struggling, you can address it right away. This is hands-on training in courtroom, in front of other judges, in camera; we do all the things. This is the fun part, the fun part that you go to law school for.

Mock Trial has definitely been an enriching experience. I think 1L year can be very scary for students, and there's a lot of unknown, and Mock Trial was definitely a space that I could go to where I felt like I was in the right spot, and I was good at what I was doing. So it gave me a confidence that I didn't have 1L year.

Currently, I am an assistant prosecuting attorney with Cuyahoga County in Cleveland, Ohio. It's one of the largest prosecutor's offices in the state of Ohio, which can be really intimidating for new attorneys. Through advocacy at Ohio Northern, I'm able to effectively handle those because I have the confidence to walk into a courtroom. I'm up in the courtroom, sometimes three times a week, sometimes four. And I know that through the advocacy training I got, whether I'm in a courtroom, in just the office. Whether I'm talking to victims, whether I'm talking to anyone, I'm able to appropriately communicate with them and appropriately address them, no matter the setting.