The New Zealand Law Students Association (NZLSA) conference ran from Tuesday to yesterday with six New Zealand universities - Auckland, Waikato, Victoria, Canterbury, AUT and Otago - and their best law students represented.
As part of the conference, nine students from each university competed in five categories: negotiation, interviewing, senior and junior mooting (mock trials) and witness examination.
The conference also included the NZLSA's annual meeting and a number of social engagements allowing the local students to show Dunedin off to their visitors, conference convener and fifth year Otago University law student Lizzie Christmas said.
''They seem to be loving Dunedin, getting their own little scarfie insight and loving their time.
''We've really tried to showcase Dunedin as best as we can and show people what life's like down here.''
Miss Christmas said the nuts and bolts of the conference had gone well and the reaction from visiting students had been ''fantastic''.
Dunedin's legal community had also pitched in, she said, with about 90 judging positions being filled almost entirely by local lawyers.
• University of Otago students Ellie Domigan and Jamie Rohan won the Buddle Findlay negotiation competition.
• Auckland University students Carter Pearce and Sam Jeffs won the NZLSA open mooting competition.
• Auckland students Caitlin Anyon Peters and Katherine Eichelbaum won the Bell Gully junior mooting competition.
• Victoria University students Eve Bain and Fayez Shahbaz won the Russell McVeagh client interviewing competition.
• Waikato University student Stephen Taylor won the Minister Ellison Rudd Watts witness examination competition.
