The Evansville Bar Association will celebrate Law Week this year with activities that reflect on this year’s Law Day theme: “Magna Carta: Symbol of Freedom Under Law.â€
April 23, 2015
MOCK TRIALS: The annual mock trials for area high school students will convene on Thursday, April 23, at 8:00 AM, at Vanderburgh Circuit and Superior Courts. Eight teams of students from Vanderburgh County high schools will participate in the program, serving as prosecuting and defense attorneys, witnesses, and jurors. EBA member attorneys act as advisors to the teams. Eight sitting judges and magistrates will preside over the cases throughout the Courthouse. This event has been a tradition for over 35 years.
STUDENT LUNCH:  The national Law Day theme, “Magna Carta: Symbol of Freedom Under Law†will be the focus of a pizza party for approximately 250 area high school students (Noon, CK Newsome Center), sponsored by local Evansville Law firms, following the Mock Trials. This year’s program will include a trivia game, which will pit the tables of 8 students against each other, answering questions about issues related to the theme. The winning tables will receive gift cards to Shoe Carnival, Thortons Gas Cards or Midget Link Miniature Golf passes.
April 24, 2015
LAW DAY CELEBRATION:  The annual Law Day Dinner attended by members of the Evansville Bar Association will be held on Friday, April 24. It will begin with a traditional Parade of Attorneys, at 5:45PM. Attorneys will process from the park at 4th and Main to the steps of the Vanderburgh County Old Courthouse. Approximately 200 persons are expected to attend the celebration, where the pretigious James Bethel Gresham Freedom Award will be presented.
Law Day was first proclaimed by President Eisenhower in 1957 to call attention to our great heritage of liberty preserved by the law. The activities are planned to call to the mind of every citizen both the principles and importance of the practice of American law and justice. -end-
