Students will conduct interviews with local legal professionals and participate in role-play exercises to understand diverse perspectives and experiences, setting a foundation for their mock trial preparation.

Students will articulate the project's ethical and persuasive goals, crafting clear mission statements and impact targets that align with the legal and community themes explored during the seminar and discussions, setting the direction for their mock trial roles and preparations.

Students will collaborate with peers and community partners in dynamic brainstorming sessions to generate creative strategies for the mock trial roles, addressing ethical considerations, persuasive tactics, and community-relevant issues that surfaced during empathy work.

Students will collaborate to draft detailed outlines and sketches for their mock trial strategies and deliverables, focusing on refining their rhetorical approaches, ethical considerations, and persuasive techniques, preparing groundwork for upcoming critiques and tests.

Students will simulate elements of the mock trial to evaluate the effectiveness of their persuasive arguments, witness testimonies, and trial strategies in small groups, gathering insights on engagement and deeper learning outcomes from community partners and peer feedback.

Students will engage in structured critique sessions where they will exchange feedback on their mock trial strategies, refine their persuasive arguments, and collaboratively enhance their courtroom presentations using insights from community partners.

Students will analyze the results and feedback from the mock trial, reflecting on their role, and discussing how the decisions made influenced the outcome and their own understanding of ethical considerations in legal proceedings to inform their future learning and actions.