A team from the Chicago-Kent College of Law has won the 59th National Moot Court Competition sponsored by the American College of Trial Lawyers and the New York City Bar Association.

The final rounds of the nation’s largest appellate advocacy tournament took place Jan. 28 to 31 in New York. The 14 regionals involved more than 400 law students on 189 teams that represented 129 law schools.

Members of the Chicago-Kent team are third-year students Joanna Brinkman, Lalania Gilkey-Johnson and Rachel Moran, who also took top honors in the Best Oral Advocate category.

Prof. Kent D. Streseman, director of the Ilana Diamond Rovner Program in Appellate Advocacy, coached the team with assistance from other faculty members and alumni.

Chicago-Kent defeated Loyola University School of Law in the quarter-finals and George Washington University in the semi-finals before winning the national championship over the University of Colorado in a unanimous verdict by seven judges.

“This is an outstanding victory for three remarkable law students and for Chicago-Kent’s rigorous appellate advocacy program,” said Dean Harold J. Krent.