The 2018 Intramural Negotiations Competition

This weekend, the King Hall Negotiations Team hosted the 2018 Intramural Negotiations Competition. Many alums and other attorneys devoted their time to our students to judge the competition on a sunny and crisp spring-like morning. Among others, King Hall Alumni Board members Kim Lucia ’09 (who is the board’s president) and John McKinsey ’99 served as judges. Other alums who volunteered included Casey Hatton ’06 (one of my superstar former Civil Procedure students), Kara DiBiasio ’13, Saba Shatara ’13, Samantha Mandell ’16, Jon Kendrick ’13, John Miller ’17, Ryan Stager ’17, Matthew Bourhis ’17, Olivia Filbrandt ’17, Joshua McGeorge ’17, and Trevor Fehr ’17. We also had Superior Court Judge Christine Carringer from Solano County help judge the competition.

Sixteen teams of UC Davis law students participated in the competition, which helped them refine their negotiations skills. 

The Negotiations Competition is part of the many skills programs at UC Davis School of Law. Professor Donna Shestowsky has contributed to an expansion of our skills curriculum for law students. Professor Shestowsky was there to greet and instruct the judges on the competition. Many of them were her former students.

[2018 Negotiations Competition winners:  Alice Park '20 & Aeron Van Scoyk '20 (left); Tessa Opalach '20 & Jessica Gillotte '20]

[Bianca Rodriguez '18, President of the King Hall Negotiations Team, talks to students in the Winter 2018 session of the King Hall Outreach Program after the final round of the KHNT Intramural Competition]