Second year students Molena Mompoint, Kandia Batchelor and Harold Pryor, and third year student Nikeisha Williams won third place at the 2011 Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition for the Southeast Region of the National Black Law Students Association. They also took third at national.
Each year, hundreds of competitors compete on the regional levels in the hopes of ultimately becoming one of the top three teams in the nation. Eighteen teams competed including teams from Harvard and Georgetown. Nova’s team took a commanding lead in the preliminary rounds beating Thomas Jefferson by an amazing 11 points and narrowly missing a win over Georgetown by 0.5 points. They advanced to the quarterfinals ranked in the top four and defeated Ole Miss, who was the regional champion, by a significant margin of 7 points to advance to the semi-finals — ranked in the top two teams.
The team defeated Seattle University in the quest for third place. Nikeisha Williams won Second Runner Up, Best Oral Advocate at the competition.