18 Unlike the extracurricular interscholastic competitions that bear the same name today, the moot courts of this period were mandatory
exercises in the law school curriculum, modeled
after the «moots» of the Inns of Courts in England.19 The law school professors of the day gave the students a fictitious case and assisted the students in
drafting the pleadings and other documents, preparing the arguments, and then arguing the case.20 In theory, if not always in practice, these were the forerunners of today's legal writing classes that emphasize persuasive writing.
After that I received an invitation to an assessment day where I took part in a
drafting exercise, a mock negotiation and a short commercial interview based around the negotiation.