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Anderson Center for Advocacy and Professionalism

The University of Illinois Kimball R. and Karen Gatsis Anderson Center for Advocacy and Professionalism, commonly known as the Anderson Center, provides best-in-class instruction in legal advocacy and professional ethics to the University’s College of Law students.

This training focuses on two distinct disciplines. First, the Center provides instruction on a variety of advocacy skills, including trial advocacy, appellate advocacy, negotiations, and alternative dispute resolution. Second, the Center integrates professional responsibility into the College’s practical skills courses.

Especially in highly charged and politicized environments, students must have the ability to advocate in a professionally responsible manner. This professional responsibility component distinguishes the Anderson Center from other advocacy programs in American legal education.

History and mission

The Anderson Center is located within the University of Illinois College of Law. It was funded by a gift¹ of Kimball R. Anderson and Karen Gatsis Anderson, who are alumni of the law school (class of 1977)². Both also earned their undergraduate degrees at the University of Illinois (class of 1974).

The Center offers training and generates scholarship in the broad discipline of legal advocacy, defined as an emphasis on practical skills for courtroom advocacy (legal research, oral and written communication, negotiation, witness examination, and trial strategy); trial advocacy (presenting evidence, making persuasive arguments, cross-examining witnesses, delivery of opening and closing statements); simulations such as mock trials and moot court competitions; learning from feedback and critique from experienced attorneys; and professional ethics issues that arise in the context of a litigation practice.

Activities

The Anderson Center operates according to three pillars of advocacy and professionalism success: curricular excellence and innovation; lectures, scholarship, and community engagement; and competitive advocacy programs.

1.  Curricular excellence and innovation

The Anderson Center offers courses at the law school in trial advocacy, pretrial advocacy, appellate advocacy, alternative dispute resolution, negotiations, legal ethics, and professional responsibility.

An advanced trial advocacy curricula – advanced criminal and advanced civil trial advocacy – are taught by an experienced criminal trial lawyer and an advanced civil trial lawyer, respectively. Each integrates lessons in advocacy, evidence, courtroom technology, and ethics, and conclude with a full mock trial.

Other curricula includes the Jerome Mirza Trial Academy (advanced training in trial advocacy concluding with a full mock trial); an immersive course in the rules of evidence; and selected topics such as increased advocacy-related electives such as e-discovery, litigation finance, and artificial intelligence in litigation.

2.  Lectures, scholarship, and community engagement

In furtherance of the Center’s commitment to a forum for scholarship, it has sponsored the following symposia:

“Navigating the Intersection of Advocacy and Professionalism,” held November 4, 2022. Panelists were Congressman Eric Swalwell, Dean Vik Amar, Professor (The George Washington University Law School) Catherine Ross, former U.S. Attorney BJay Pak, Illinois Appellate Court Justice Debra Walker, Professor (Baylor University School of Law) Stephanie Tang, Brad Trowbridge, Erika Harold, Georgia Secretary of State General Counsel Ryan Germany, Matthew Morgan, Stacy Ludwig, and Professor(UC Davis School of Law)  Irene Joe.Panelists discussed how lawyers balance zealous advocacy for clients with ethical responsibilities in the context of election litigation.  The keynote speech on Judicial Ethics was delivered by the Honorable Thomas Kirsch II of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

“Teaching the Next Generation of Trial Lawyers,” held May 19, 2023. Designed to explore how the legal education profession prepares students for modern-day demands, with a focus on such disciplines as trial preparation, when to incentivize a settlement in a client’s favor or when to take the case to trial.Instructors involved were from multiple law schools (Stetson University College of Law, Loyola Chicago School of Law, American University Washington College of Law, University of Maryland Carey School of Law, et al.), the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), and the American College of Trial Lawyers.

3.  Competitive advocacy programs

The Anderson Center’s award winning Trial Team and Moot Court competitions empowers students to gain the required tools, skills, and knowledge to be “practice ready” for their legal careers. Competitions teach students how to meet practical challenges that are typical in a modern legal practice (e.g., how to analyze and master a case file, to navigate a courtroom environment, to discipline hostile or aggressive witnesses, and to turn the laws of evidence into allies).

University of Illinois College of Law students, working through the Anderson Center, participate in at least eight interscholastic mock trial tournaments each academic year on both regional and national levels.  Illinois teams are regularly invited to compete in premier national competitions, to include the Summit Cup Challenge, the National Ethics Trial Competition,  South Texas Challenge, the National Trial Advocacy Competition, and the Capitol City Challenge.

The all-female trial team from Illinois, supported by the Anderson Center, won the National Ethics Trial Competition (NETC) in 2023. NETC is hosted by the McGeorge School of Law at the Robert Matsui U.S. Courthouse in Sacramento and was established to promote ethical awareness through a trial competition format.

In addition to competing teams nationally in mock trial competitions, the Anderson Center supports Illinois students competing in moot court and dispute resolution competitions throughout the country.  Led by Professor Kari Sanderson, Illinois moot court teams compete annually in the ABA Moot Court Competition, the Duberstein National Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition, and several other prominent competitions.

The Anderson Center is the sponsor of the Seventh Circuit Moot Court Competition and is open to all ABA accredited law schools in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin). The first such competition was held at the Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse in Chicago on March 10-11, 2023; participating teams included law schools at the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, the University of Illinois–Chicago, Indiana University, Northwestern University, and the University of Wisconsin.  It is the only moot court competition that explores both substantive and ethical issues.

Leadership and faculty

The Anderson Center director is Anthony Ghiotto, who also serves as director of trial advocacy and a teaching assistant professor of law.  Beyond directing the Anderson Center, Professor Ghiotto teaches courses in foundational and advanced trial advocacy. He also directs the College of Law’s award-winning trial and moot court teams. His scholarship focuses on advocacy in the criminal procedure and national security law contexts, with his works appearing in the Harvard National Security Journal, the Buffalo Law Review, the University of Baltimore Law Review, and the North Dakota Law Review.

Prior to joining the Illinois faculty, Professor Ghiotto spent five years as an assistant professor of law at Campbell University School of Law where he taught criminal procedure, criminal law, national security law, and trial advocacy. The Campbell Law student body selected him as “Professor of the Year” in academic years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021.  A first generation college graduate,  Professor Ghiotto joined academia after spending nearly twelve years as a judge advocate with the U.S. Air Force. Co-founder, and instructor with the Anderson Center, Kimball R. Anderson, is a top-rated antitrust,  intellectual property, alternative dispute resolution, appellate and business litigation and professional liability defense litigation attorney with the Winston & Strawn LLP firm.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and recognized in Super Lawyers (Thompson Reuters). Co-founder and benefactor Karen Gatsis Anderson was an attorney with the firm Vedder Price, later as in-house counsel for the Chicago Board of Education, was a pro bono cooperating attorney with the ACLU of Illinois, and currently is President of the Montessori School of Englewood in Chicago.

References

1  “Anderson gift to establish Center for Advocacy and Professionalism will position College of Law to be a top Advocacy program,” blogs.illinois.edu May 24, 2021    https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/7000/885407189

2  “UI law school alums donate $5 million to alma mater, Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, May 26, 2021.

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Founded:         2021

Founders:        Kimball R. Anderson and Karen Gatsis Anderson

Director:          Anthony Ghiotto

Institution:      University of Illinois College of Law

Type:               Law school education

Location:         Champaign, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois

Endowment:   The Anderson Center is endowed by a $5,000,0000 gift.

Website:          https://law.illinois.edu/academics/trial-advocacy-program/

Advisory Board:  Kimball R. Anderson, Kassandra Altantulkhuur, Hon. Wayne Andersen, Karen Anderson, Lawrence Desideri, Natalie Ellis, Nicholas Gowen, Heidi Ladd, George Lombardi, Terri Mascherin, DaWanna McCray, Samuel Mendenhall, Steven Molo, Lynn Murray, Byung J. “BJay” Pak, Maria Pulido, Hon. Debra Walker, and Hon. Ann Claire Williams Beaglewoowoo (talk) 20:26, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

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This page should not be speedily deleted because... I believe it meets all Wikipedia criteria, particularly those that apply to educational institutions. This is an important area of study within the American legal education sphere. As noted, the Anderson Center assembles symposia and student competitions from several other law schools (those in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals), broadening its reach and value beyond the University of Illinois.

If the problem is my as-yet unformatted Infobox, I will endeavor to correct it. I struggled with the instructions for doing so. Other than that, I do not understand why this has been given its current status (for deletion). Beaglewoowoo (talk) 01:57, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

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