The CCBA’s New Lawyers Committee helps to organize volunteers for the student competitions held by the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law. Volunteers should be Nevada attorneys, judges, or mediators. See below for information about the event and to sign up to volunteer.
27th Annual Client Counseling Competition
- When:
- Friday, October 3, 2025:
- Preliminary Round 1: 6:00pm – 7:00pm (Judges should arrive around 5:30pm to prep and have dinner)
- Preliminary Round 2: 7:30pm – 8:30pm (Judges should arrive around 7:00pm [if not volunteering for Round 1] to prep and have dinner)
- Saturday October 4, 2025:
- Semifinal Round: 9:30am-10:30am (Judges should arrive at 9:00am)
- Final Round: 11:00am-12:30pm
- Friday, October 3, 2025:
- Where: UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law
- Note: Volunteers should be Nevada attorneys, judges, or mediators. Judging the competition qualifies as pro bono service!
To sign up to judge the competition, please complete the form below:
About the event
The Client Counseling Competition provides 1L students at Boyd their first opportunity to practice their interpersonal skills, as future attorneys, through a consultation with a mock client.
To compete, the students form teams of two and prepare to consult with a mock client. The mock client is provided with a detailed fact pattern to work from during the competition, but the student teams are not provided this fact pattern. During the competition, each student team will conduct a fifteen-minute interview with the mock client in order to learn as many facts and issues as possible about the client and advise the client of their legal options.
It is the role of the judge to observe student teams assigned to them and score them on both their interpersonal communication skills and their ability to find potential legal issues from the mock client’s fact pattern. Points may also be awarded for maintaining a professional demeanor throughout. At the end of each round, judges will score the student teams based on their performance and will have the opportunity to provide constructive feedback to the students.
As the date of the event nears, look for an email from the CCBA’s New Lawyers Committee Co-Chair Alexandra Matloff at amatloff@wshblaw.com, Boyd Law student Drianna Dimatulac dimatd1@unlv.nevada.edu with more information about the event.