NORTHWESTERN NOW — A team from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Bartlit Center on Trial Advocacy won the Midwest Regional of the National Trial Competition, held last weekend in a remote format. They will now go on to compete for the national championship, which will be held in person in Fort Worth, Texas, March 30-April 3. The team of Carly Pace (JD ’22) and Caitlin Schumacher (JD ’22) won all four rounds, alternating prosecution and defense in a case charging possession with intent to sell cocaine. They defeated teams from UIC John Marshall Law School, Washington University School of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law and DePaul University College of Law. The other team of Monica Gerstner (JD ’22), Zakiyah Dillard (JD ’23) and George Avdellas (JD ’23) competed in the tournament’s other bracket. They won three straight rounds before losing narrowly in the finals to a Chicago-Kent team that also will compete in Texas. Steven Lubet, director of the Bartlit Center for Trial Advocacy, called this year’s team “one of the absolute best we have ever fielded. Carly and Caitlin moved seamlessly from prosecution to defense, always representing their clients at the highest level of courtroom advocacy.”