2021 ABA Negotiation Competition

The team from California Western School of Law, Francis Carlota and Jonathan Gonzalez, won the 2021 ABA Negotiation Competition, held on February 6, 2021.
The Mitchell Hamline School of Law team of Austyn Boothe and Daniel Sheikhan came in second place.
This year's topic was sports law.
The ABA Law Student Division Negotiation Competition provides a means for law students to practice and improve their negotiating skills. The competition simulates legal negotiations in which law students, acting as lawyers, negotiate a series of legal problems. The simulations consist of a common set of facts known by all participants and confidential information known only to the participants representing a particular side. All of the simulations deal with the same general topic, but the negotiation situation varies with each round and level of the competition.

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Amazing 🔥

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The winning team excessively pumped the laurels of the client, and the other team really should've pushed back harder against their puffery and preening.
It was an interesting strategy, it seems, to agree to "not interrupt each other" in the appearance of good faith at the beginning, and use that agreement to completely ignore their questions and launch into their own line of questioning for two minutes before opposing counsel could speak.
I would've returned the strategy.