MENTOR Moot Court Rules and Problems:
Beginning with the 2003 MENTOR Moot Court, the Rules and Problem for the annual competition have been placed online. The case materials can be used in other MENTOR competitions. (They are copyrighted.)
These materials can be downloaded as PDF files by clicking below:

The 2003 MENTOR Moot Court materials
The 2004 MENTOR Moot Court materials
The 2005 MENTOR Moot Court materials
The 2006 MENTOR Moot Court materials
The 2007 MENTOR Moot Court materials

Stuyvesant High School wins finals in MENTOR Moot Court in argument before US Court of Appeals bench
December 10, 2007__ Student attorneys from Stuyvesant and the High School of American Studies at Lehman College argued today before a panel of three judges of the U.S. federal court judges in the finals of the 2007 MENTOR Moot Court. The court ruled for Stuyvesant, who appeared on behalf of the Petitioner in the case argued over recent weeks by students from 53 New York City public high schools, each coached by a law firm or legal office in the city. Cravath, Swaine & Moore, is Stuyvesant's MENTOR firm.

The hypothetical case involving issues of both direct and contributory copyright infrigement in the creation of a music video parodying Michael Jackson's Beat It, was written by the Moot Court Board of Fordham Law School. The US federal judges who heard the case yesterday and rendered the decision were Hon. Debra Ann Livingston, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, Hon. Shira Scheindlin, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and Hon. Kiyo A. Matsumoto, United States Magistrate for the Eastern District of New York.

Presenting the MENTOR BOWL to the winning team from Stuyvesant High School was Chairman of the Board, Justice Resource Center, Aldo A. Badini, a partner in the MENTOR law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP.

Sponsors
The MENTOR Moot Court Program is sponsored by Fordham Law School.
A special thanks is extended to William Treanor, Dean, Fordham Law School.

MENTOR Law Firms and Law School Judges
Fifty-three New York City public high schools coached by their MENTOR law firm competed in this year’s competition. Attorneys from participating MENTOR law firms, various supporters of the MENTOR Program, and the Fordham University School of Law faculty, students and alumni judged the competition..

New York City MENTOR Law Firm / School Pairings

The following acknowledgements were included in the Finals Program, to the people whose dedication and hard work made the 2007 MENTOR Moot Court possible:

Special thanks from Debra Lesser: The Honorable Shira Scheindlin, U.S. Federal District Judge; Tom Evans, the founder of the MENTOR Program; Aldo A. Badini, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, Chairman of the Board; John Kiernan, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP; Joel Klein, Chancellor, New York City Department of Education; Garth Harries, Chief Officer for Office of Portfolio Development, New York City Department of Education; Jean-Claude Brizard, Senior Executive Director for Policy and Sustainability, New York City Department of Education; Cynthia Fowlkes, Director, New York City Department of Education Career and Technical Education; CTE staff from the New York City Department of Education, Harris Yale, AIG; Randi Weingarten, UFT; Charlotte Frank, The McGraw Hill Companies; Vernon Broderick, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP; Dr. Paula Franzese, Professor Seton Hall Law School, Gladys Aviles, Executive Assistant, and Janelle Hradek, Administrative Assistant;

A special thanks to The MENTOR Moot Court Board, Megan Spillane, the 2007 MENTOR Moot Court Editor and all the wonderful MENTOR Attorneys and the New York City Public High School teachers, who have spent endless hours preparing our law cluster students.

Special Thanks from Meghan Spillane:  Darian Alexander, Moot Court Editor-in-Chief; Alison Baker, Moot Court Managing Editor; Associate MENTOR Editors; MENTOR Executive Committee; The 2007-2008 staff of Moot Court and all the Moot Court Editors; The Deans and Faculty of Fordham Law School; The many practitioners who graciously volunteered their time to judge MENTOR rounds; and Debra Lesser and the staff of the Justice Resource Center, without whom none of this could be possible.