collettegillaspie & allykmiecik

1. Get dressed in your power suits with makeup and hair on point.

2. Navigate your way through the treach- erous one-way streets of downtown Omaha.

3. Finally find the parking garage after many panicked calls to lawyer coach Jen Icenogle.

4. Enter Douglas County Courthouse.

5. Go through a metal detector and make small talk with policemen.

6. Ride in a cramped elevator to meet the competition.

7. Enter the courtroom in a cold sweat.

8. Freak out a little over having all the required papers together.

9. Rise to meet the judge.

10. Lawyers from both sides introduce themselves and their fellow council mem- bers (teammates).

11. Lawyers from both sides give the opening statements.

12. Begin the trial.

13. Lawyers from both sides kindly direct examine their own witnesses.

14. Witnesses answer in as charming a manner as possible.

15. Lawyers from both sides interrogate the other team’s witnesses during the cross examination.

16. Lawyers from both sides prepare and deliver stellar closing statements.

17. The two lawyer jury members and Mock Trial main judge tally up. scores.

18. The three performance judges give constructive criticism.

19. Marian wins the trial.