Taylor Porter Helps LSU Law Environmental Moot Court Team Prepare for National Competition

February 09, 2017

Taylor Porter hosted the LSU Law National Environmental Moot Court Team for a practice on Feb. 8 to help the team prepare for the Jeffrey G. Miller National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, to be held Feb. 23-25, at Pace University Law School, in White Plains, NY. The National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition (NELMCC) is the largest interschool moot court competition of any kind, regularly attracting 200 competitors from law schools across the nation.

This year’s problem has seven issues relating to the Endangered Species Act and constitutional takings as Taylor Porter attorneys listened to LSU moot court members' arguments and provided questions and feedback throughout the practice as judges, challenging the students' arguments and their composure. At the national competition, competitors research and analyze the issues before writing persuasive arguments for one party advocating how the issues should be resolved. Competitors are then required to argue the issues orally for all three parties, rounding out the academic experience. 

Taylor Porter attorneys attending the practice included Environmental Practice Group Leader and Partner 
Anne Crochet, Partner and Executive Committee Member Robin Toups, and Associates Juan Miranda and Ryan French. Members of the LSU Law National Environmental Moot Court Team include Taylor Herpin, Kelsey Balzli, and James McKenney, and the team is coached by Karen Blakemore. Blakemore was a member of the 2006 LSU Law team that won a national championship at the Environmental Moot Court competition.  

The Taylor Porter environmental practice group team serves the environmental needs of business and industry in all media (air, water and waste), in all facets (regulatory, remediation, litigation, property transactions, contracts and root cause investigations) and in all stages of the process (legislative, regulatory, administrative and litigation). Click here to read more about the Taylor Porter environmental practice group.

 

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