Client Counselling Competition for Law Students-National Rounds of Louis M. Brown and Forrest S. Mosten International Client Consultation Competition, 2023 from 9th-11th December 2022- Register by 26th November 2022.

• The Louis M. Brown International Client Counselling Competition was founded in 1985. In May 2010, the competition’s name was subtly changed from “client counselling” to “client consultation”. It was felt that “consultation” reflects better the activity as opposed to the words interviewing, advising, or counselling. The name of the Californian lawyer Forrest S. Mosten was also added to the title of the competition. The Competition is affiliated with the International Bar Association and collaborates closely with law societies and bar associations throughout the world.
• The 2023 international competition will be hosted by the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands from 11-15th April 2023. The Brown-Mosten Competition is an annual competition for the winners of national competitions across the world. The Competition promotes greater knowledge and interest among law students in the preventive law and counselling functions of law practice.
• It also encourages students to develop interviewing, planning, and analytical skills in the lawyer-client relationship in the law office. Interviewing and advising is a significant part of most lawyers’ work. The Competition provides an opportunity for a valuable educational interchange between students, law teachers, and legal practitioners.
• Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur (M.P.) was established in the year 2018, by Madhya Pradesh Dharmashastra National Law University Act 24 of 2018, with the object of advancing the cause of legal education and achieving excellence as a University for imparting value-based legal education to undergraduate as well as postgraduate students. The University has also other objectives as set out in the Act. The National Litigation Policy has laid emphasis on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods like mediation, conciliation and arbitration to resolve disputes quickly and amicably.
• Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur gives adequate emphasis in its curriculum to help the students in learning the skills of ADR methods in addition to the procedural law involved in the use of ADR. The University gives extra emphasis to the learning of advocacy skills by providing a suitable curriculum that will have a number of simulation exercises, which will greatly help the learning of advocacy skills and professional ethics. The Government of Madhya Pradesh has been magnanimous to allot 125 acres of land for developing the infrastructure of the University.

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