LaToya Palmer and Erin Moss
Meet the Top Client Counseling Team
in the Country
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS - ABA Law Student Division Client Counseling National Competition - see the ABA rankings 
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"We received quite a few compliments from the judges on our knowledge of the law. Cooley has done such a great job of teaching us the fundamentals of law. We had a lot of practical knowledge going into the competition that I don't think the judges expected to see from law students."
Erin Moss
"Professional responsibility of lawyers and judges was the focus of this year's competition, so the emphasis that Cooley places on professional responsibility issues in its substantive law classes really gave us an upper hand in the competition...our coaches brought in other professors from various areas of law to help us look at some of the scenarios from different angles."
LaToya Palmer
"We both had professional careers before we came to law school and dealt with clients in a very different setting. My background is in sales and LaToya's is in human resources, so we really complement each other."
Christine Church, Asst. Dean of Planning, Programs & Assessment
"One of our coaches, Christine Church, told us that we were one of the best teams that she had seen."
After Church's encouragement, Moss and Palmer tried out for the interschool competition again in 2010. The students became gold medal finalists in the competition again and were selected to compete in the ABA's regional competition in London, Ontario, along with two other student teams from Cooley, early in 2011.
The ABA National Competition
Competition judges evaluate the students' ability to establish an appropriate working atmosphere, listen, understand the client's perspective, analyze the problem, and present various courses of action consistent with the client's goals and objectives.
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