Since 1949, Wayne State University Law School's Moot Court Program has helped students hone their written and oral advocacy skills at the appellate level. Junior members team up to write one appellate brief each semester and argue at least four times before a panel of senior member judges. They may later advance to the Arthur Neef or Law Day Competition, where practicing attorneys and judges preside over the arguments. Each year, these practitioners comment that the students’ arguments are better than 90 percent of the ones presented in court.