MBA celebrates Mock Trial support from Brown Rudnick

Firm donates $25,000 to Mock Trial Program for 11th consecutive year

Brown, Rudnick, Berlack, Israels LLP, through its Center for Public Interest, recently donated $25,000 to the MBA's 2009 Mock Trial Program. Brown Rudnick has been the lead financial underwriter of this program, contributing more than a quarter million dollars since 1998.

“We are sincerely grateful for Brown Rudnick's continued support of this important community learning program, which provides hundreds of Bay State students participatory-educational opportunities with the legal system," MBA President Edward W. McIntyre said.

The popular high school Mock Trial competition begins its 24th year next month. First organized in 1985, the tournament places high school students in a simulated courtroom to assume the roles of lawyers and witnesses in a hypothetical case. This year’s criminal case involves a murder trial. The defendant, a veteran, raises Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as an insanity defense and as a defense in mitigation of the charge of first degree murder.

For more information on the 2009 Mock Trial Program, or to volunteer to judge, click here.