The MENTOR Moot Court competition is open to all New York City Public High schools with a law program. The law programs run the gamut of having a few electives to entire schools with a law theme. Many of the schools are known for their high academic achievement levels and others are known as schools that do not have high graduation records. 

In 2004, students from Lehman High School, a large, minority, urban, New York City public high school, won the championship, defeating the perennial winners.

One student, Richard Torres, was so exceptional, that one of the Advisory Board members of the New York State Career and Technical Education Board helped him get into Columbia University with full scholarship opportunities.

The New York Times covered this event in the Dec. 9, 2004 Metro briefing, “Bronx School wins bragging rights.” It was the first time in over twenty years a Bronx school won the competition. Chief Judge Jacobs, Second Circuit Court of Appeals, stated that the Lehman High School team was better prepared and argued their case better than some lawyers he'd had in his court.

Lawyers from Clifford Chance, paired with Lehman High School, were impressed with all of the students and how they gained confidence, honed their oral advocacy skills, and mastered complex legal arguments.