In its first competition since earning the No. 1 national ranking, UCLA School of Law’s A. Barry Cappello Trial Team on Oct. 4 won the Summit Cup, a trial advocacy competition hosted by University of Denver Sturm College of Law that is considered among the most prestigious and difficult trial competitions in the country.

The A. Barry Cappello Trial Team at UCLA School of Law now ranks as the No. 1 trial advocacy team in the nation.

UCLA School of Law's Clinical Program students, working together with Sanjukta M. Paul, a civil rights attorney with the firm Rothner, Segall, Greenstone & Leheny, secured a victory for catering food truck operators in a case challenging the constitutionality of a city ordinance that has been aggressively implemented against these vendors in Los Angeles since the beginning of 2008.

David Binder, who served on the UCLA School of Law faculty for 50 years and gave generations of students the practical tools to succeed as lawyers, died on Sept. 15 after a long illness. He was 86.

After winning the West Coast regional competition in November 2018, in January the UCLA Law Trial Team finished second in the country at the American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law National Trial Competition.

With plastic waste becoming a global pollution crisis, faculty and students of UCLA School of Law’s Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic traveled to Washington, D.C., in January 2019 to brief Congress on legislation that could help reduce plastic pollution in oceans.

Students from UCLA School of Law have made an impact on one of the signature criminal justice issues of our time: reform of the money bail system.