Supporting what is rapidly becoming one of the top law school trial programs in the country, UCLA Law alumnus A. Barry Cappello ’65 has pledged to donate an additional $500,000 to UCLA School of Law’s Cappello Program in Trial Advocacy. The gift raises Cappello’s total donations to UCLA Law to $2.75 million.
UCLA School of Law's A. Barry Cappello Trial Team started its 2019-20 season with a bang, sending teams to two tournaments in early October. At one tournament, the team walked away with the first-place trophy. At the other, UCLA Law won the Professionalism Award.
UCLA School of Law’s trial team finished in second place at the National Board of Trial Advocacy’s 2019 Tournament of Champions, which took place at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., from Oct. 23 to 26.
The A. Barry Cappello Trial Team at UCLA School of Law ranks as the third-best trial team in the nation, according to the 2018-19 Trial Competition Performance Rankings compiled by Professor Adam Shlahet and the Fordham University School of Law.
UCLA School of Law's Cappello Trial Team finished 2019 with two more outstanding results in November, reaching the finals in nine of its last 13 competitions.
Recent UCLA School of Law graduate Deeksha Kohli ’20 reached the semifinals and finished in third place in the Top Gun National Trial Competition, perhaps the most difficult trial competition in the United States.
Alumni and friends raised $181.2 million for UCLA School of Law during the Centennial Campaign for UCLA, far exceeding the school's goal during the campus-wide fundraising drive that was designed to prepare the university for its second century of excellence.
Marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of UCLA, the Centennial Campaign raised $5.49 billion.
The UCLA Law Trial Team is headed to the National Trial Competition.
Amid in-person school closures and global travel restrictions, UCLA School of Law has created online trial competitions for the nearly 10,000 law students and undergraduates whose competitions were cancelled as the world grapples with the COVID-19 crisis.