White Plains Mayor to Serve as Judge for Prestigious Competition at Pace Law School

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(White Plains, NY)-- White Plains Mayor Thomas Roach will get out of the office and into the court room this week when he serves as a judge for the Twenty-Fourth Annual National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition to be held at Pace Law School from Thurs. Feb. 23 to Sat., Feb 25.

More than 200 competitors from diverse law schools and 200 attorneys serving as judges  will participate in the event at the Pace Law School, in White Plains. 

Recognized as the preeminent environmental law moot in the United States, the NELMCC, which draws from actual cases, will test students’ skills in appellate brief writing and oral advocacy and provide them with first-hand experience in environmental litigation.  

“It is truly exciting to get both current and future environmental law practitioners together in one location,” said Amanda Sauer, the 2012 NELMCC student chair.

“The Pace Environmental Program and the NELMCC Board are immensely proud of our respected position and popularity among the legal environmental community.  Each year we are forced to turn schools away because we reach registration capacity so rapidly!” 

Faculty advisor for the competition, Prof. Ann Powers, echoed this sentiment saying, “Pace Law School is extremely proud of our nationally acclaimed Environmental Law Moot Court Competition. Bringing hundreds of aspiring lawyers to Pace is a major undertaking, which our student board carries out every year with distinction.  But we could not do it without the support of the local legal community, whose members volunteer their time to grade briefs and serve as judges.  We are very grateful for their help.”

Mayor Roach, who will serve for the first three rounds, will be joined by the Honorable Anna L. Wolgast, Environmental Appeals Board, Judge for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; The Honorable Vincent L. Briccetti, Judge for the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; The Honorable Nancy B. Firestone, Judge for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

The final round of the competition takes place on Saturday, 2/25 at 1:30pm and is open to the public. For more information on the competition, contact Leslie Crincoli, Senior Program Coordinator,  

Pace Law School has over 7,000 alumni throughout the country and the world, and is consistently ranked among the nation’s top three programs in environmental law.

On its White Plains, NY, campus, it offers JD programs and the Master of Laws degree in Environmental Law, including the nation’s first graduate level programs in Climate Change and Land Use and Sustainable Development, and Comparative Legal Studies, and a Doctor of Laws in Environmental Law. The School of Law is part of Pace University, a comprehensive, independent, and diversified university with campuses in New York City and Westchester County. www.law.pace.edu

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