UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law's Minority Law Students Association (MLSA) will host more than 120 Clark High School students on April 11 at UNLV for a day of mock trials and campus tours in an effort to encourage students to pursue higher education and spark interest in legal careers.

For the last six weeks, law students from the MLSA have visited Clark High School to teach students about the judicial process. Clark High students have been learning how to argue their cases for the mock trial day.

For the first time in the history of the program, called Street Law, high school students will present their cases in front of four judges from Clark County courts. Judge Bill Gonzalez, Judge Nancy Allf, Judge Joanna Kishner, and Judge Frank Sullivan will each preside over one of the mock trials. Senator Ruben Kihuen and District Attorney Steve Wolfson will provide words of encouragement at the opening of the event.

The mock trial event will be held 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. April 11 at UNLV's Boyd School of Law, located at 4505 South Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas.

"The Street Law Program places Boyd students in high school classrooms to teach students lessons in the law that will help them in their everyday lives and promote civic awareness," said Frank Durand, associate dean for student affairs at Boyd School of Law. "In the program, high school students become better informed citizens. The program works to get students thinking more seriously about going to college and perhaps considering a legal career."

Durand, UNLV law professor Robert Correales and Scott Beeten, a Clark High School teacher, collaborated to create the program.

"The students of the William S. Boyd School of Law strive to make a difference. This program is one of the many ways the students seek to enrich the community," said Rob Telles, President of the MLSA and Boyd School of Law student.