Three from IU McKinney Take Part in Inaugural Diversity Case Competition
02/04/2019
IU McKinney 1Ls Moncerrat Alvarez, Krystal Hunter, and Dalia Ramirez, took part in the inaugural Law Student Diversity Case Competition. The event took place January 18 and 19 at Cincinnati firm Keating Muething & Klekamp, in collaboration with the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
Instead of a traditional job fair, teams of students were given simulated client assignments, and permitted an opportunity to ask questions before researching and developing a solution. A regional diversity job fair for law students in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana shut down several years ago, and organizers of the competition wanted to replace it with something that would permit potential employers to see students engaged in the kind of work they would do on the job. The goal of the event is to promote the hiring of women and minority law students while simulating the kinds of circumstances that summer associates and new associates would find themselves in during and immediately after law school.
The three from IU McKinney learned about the competition from Ramirez's fiancé, Marcus Phelps, who is an associate at the law firm. The competition was open to teams of two or three, and Alvarez, (in the photo, from left) Hunter, and Ramirez, competed as a team. They called it a great opportunity to network and get hands-on experience, and said they got a taste of what working for a law firm would be like.
The competition, open to 1Ls, was for students from Cincinnati Law, the University of Kentucky College of Law, Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, IU Michael S. Maurer School of Law, and the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
