slow clap for Fleming & Associates

At the risk of turning this into a random shout-out page, I want to say a few things about the 2005 class of summer clerks at Fleming & Associates.

In the mock trial and moot court classes, all four South Texas clerks received brief awards (granted, Andrew’s team did better than the Gaytor/Panda duo). Three received speaker awards: Pearce was 1st in moot court, Gardale was 2nd in mock trial and I don’t remember what place Amanda received in moot court. None of them seemed too outwardly excited about their awards, though I’m pretty sure Gardale was so excited that he went home a cried like a girl (after all, his nickname is Cries at Night).

I’m not sure what Fleming is going to do now that we are all gone. They’ll be lucky to pick up six Corey Cougars next summer.

I would like to point out that your humble 12(e) correspondent not only failed to secure a speaker award, but was likely one of the bottom speakers in the entire Leerooooooooooooy Jeffers Moot Court Tournament. In a nutshell, to determine which teams advance to the next round, the judges add the team’s brief’s score to the combined points awarded to the speakers. Our team had the best speaker and the second best brief, and yet we did not make the playoffs. Who, I ask you, is the weak link? I couldn’t advocate my way out of a paper bag. The upside is that Dean (I refuse to call him “Coach”) Treece has no present intention of making me speak, and is content to leave me as a brief writer.