On Friday, March, 23, 2012, three students from the DePaul Law Health Law Institute competed in the National Health law Transactional Competition hosted by Loyola University Chicago School of Law. The annual competition tests students on their ability to sort through a corporate and regulatory dilemma faced by a hypothetical institution. The students then submit a written brief and present their analyses and proposals before a panel of judges.
Azeema Akram ('13), Nikki Ulrich ('13), and Michelle Villanueva ('14) represented DePaul at the competition; this was the first year DePaul sent a team to compete.
While the DePaul team did not win the competition, the team received high praise from the judges for its thoughtful analysis and practical approach to the prompt. Importantly, the students learned a tremendous amount about the nature of corporate and regulatory health law practice and plans to take that experience with them into other extracurricular and professional opportunities.