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Benjamin Odendahl
  • Law
  • Class of 2014
  • Huntsville, AL

Benjamin Odendahl Part of Samford Law Team That Wins Regional Competition

2014 Apr 1

Benjamin D. Odendahl of Huntsville was part of the teams from Samford University's Cumberland School of Law that recently swept the regional component of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) Student Trial Advocacy Competition.

Odendahl, a member of Cumberland's Class of 2014, was part of the team that took 2nd place. The winning team advances to the national finals April 10-13 in Santa Monica, Calif.

AAJ's mock trial cases are always civil cases and deal with products liability, personal injury or medical malpractice/negligence issues. Teams are judged on their skills in case preparation, opening statements, use of facts, the examination of lay and expert witnesses, and closing arguments.

Cumberland School of law recently was ranked 6th nationally for its trial advocacy programs in the 2015 U.S. News & World Report best grad school rankings.

About Samford University's Cumberland School of Law

Samford University's Cumberland School of Law is located in Birmingham, Ala., and is one of the oldest law schools in the nation, established in 1847. At formation, when legal study was conducted by apprenticeship or through lectures, Cumberland School of Law pioneered an instructional method based on intensive trial practice. This method laid the foundation for what is widely acclaimed as the nation's finest program in trial advocacy. Today, the law school is one of the smallest American Bar Association accredited law schools in the nation by design and continues to focus on teaching practical lawyering skills. In the past 167 years, the law school has produced more than 12,000 accomplished alumni including two United States Supreme Court justices, several governors, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull (known as the Father of the United Nations), and numerous federal, state and local judges. www.cumberland.samford.edu