The NAPABA Law Foundation Judge Thomas Tang and Dr. Pearl Tang Moot Court Competition National Planning Committee has announced it is now looking for practicing attorneys (ideally with 5 years + experience) to serve as brief graders for the New York City and Zoom regionals held on October 17, 2025 and October 18, 2025 respectively. Interested attorneys can sign up at Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition: 2025 Tang Moot Court Brief Grading for Regionals. Graders will be given briefs, rules, the case problem, briefs and score sheets. Those who sign up will be assigned a number of briefs depending on the attorney’s capacity on or around October 10, 2025 and expected to return the score sheet on October 15, 2025.
The Committee is also looking to enlist current law students/young attorneys (less than 5 years experience) local to the New York City area to serve as in-person bailiffs/volunteers for the October 17, 2025 in-person regionals at the U.S Court of International Trade (One Federal Plaza New York, NY 10278) for 1.5 hour shifts from 9AM to 4:45PM. Interested students/young attorneys may sign up at Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition: Tang Moot Court New York Regional Bailiffs. Bailiffs/volunteers will be trained onsite on assisting the Committee on keeping track of each of the competition rounds, collecting judge’s score sheets, and reporting any technology and/or trial related issues.
If you have any questions, please contact thomastangmootcourt@gmail.com