St. Mary's law student Andy Vizcarra is among team members in mock trial competitions featured in a new podcast, 'Class Action.'
in San Antonio — through mock trial competitions that help train them for real-world courtroom practice. The other teams featured are from Brooklyn Law School in New York, the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law and Dillard University in New Orleans.
The 24-year-old Vizcarra said she’s wanted to be a lawyer since the age of nine. She said her father Elizandro’s sense that the law can protect citizens against injustice was a strong motivation, and the 2009 nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U. S. Supreme Court, demonstrating that a young Latina like herself can be represented in the nation’s highest court, may have also played a role.
At the culmination of Episode 7, titled “Don’t Mess With Texas,” Vizcarra gets specific, saying, “1.3% of lawyers in the United States are Latino women. One. Point. Three. It’s a very small percentage, very small.” Though Bellido de Luna said his team was clearly better than their competitors that day, they were not advanced through to the quarterfinal round.
Even after being knocked down, both the episode and the series recover to chart new triumphs. Episode 7 closes with Vizcarra and her parents raucously celebrating El Grito, Mexican Independence Day, at their family’s Frida Mexican Restaurant and Bar in Stone Oak, where she has worked to support herself through law school.
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