Eighteenth Annual National Pretrial Competition

Courts across the country use pretrial hearings to determine constitutional, evidentiary, and procedural matters before trial.  The Eighteenth Annual National Pretrial Competition (NPTC) provides students with a forum to develop skills for properly researching, analyzing, and litigating important, case-dispositive, pretrial matters in an evidentiary hearing almost identical to that of a full trial.

NPTC 2025 will take place on October 2-5, 2025, in the new Advocacy Institute at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, FL.  This year’s packet will be released closer to the competition date and include a pretrial evidentiary hearing and motion argument. Applications for NPTC 2025 will open in the spring. 

Please email [email protected] with any questions.