Law School Is Fundamentally Different Than Your Undergrad Experience

 

When you were an undergrad, you could cram the night before a test and you might do OK. 

 

But guess what?

 

“Studying hard” isn’t remotely enough to succeed in law school.

 

Typing up detailed notes and hitting the books like a fanatic won’t work like it did in college.

 

Law school is a completely different beast. Not only is your entire grade based on one end-of-the-semester exam, but the exams are unlike anything you’ve ever seen in your academic career.

 

From middle school through college, “knowing the answer” was enough for an A.

 

Not anymore.

 

The old test-taking tactics you developed in middle schools, high school, and college don’t help in law school.

 

This is why understanding the framework of law school is so important to doing well.

 

If you can master the framework, you’ll know exactly what to look for in your case studies, and you won’t need to take pages of super-detailed notes that are impossible to recall during exams. You’ll start smashing every exam and soaring past your peers on the way to the top of your class.

 

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It’s called “law school” but it should really be called “essay school.”

 

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In law school your final exam essays are worth 100% of your grade.  

 

Class participation? 0%.  

 

Quizzes?  Don’t exist.  

 

Book reports?  GTFO.

 

Almost all first year classes (and most 2L and 3L classes) use Issue Spotting Exams (aka Hypothetical or Hypo Exams). 

 

Law school issue spotting exams fundamentally different from college tests and term papers.  They are not information dumps – memorizing facts won’t help. 

 

 

If your college exams asked you to “explain the history of the automobile,” your law school exams are going to ask you to take an unsorted box of parts, use those parts to build a car, and then race that car against every single other student in the class.

 

Law school exams are all about “thinking like a lawyer” and applying the law. 

 

But the irony is that you are expected to think like a lawyer before you’re a lawyer. 

 

Almost everyone focusses on learning the law – and that’s definitely necessary.  But they fail to focus on the thing that really matters: writing a law school essay.

 

But here is the secret: writing a prize winning, top-of-the class, A+ essay is a skill.  And like any skill it can be practiced and learned. 

 

Because almost all professors use Issue Spotter exams, the same strategies apply.  Professors might not even know it themselves, but they all grade the same way.  

 

The same skills apply whether you’re taking a Contracts final or a Torts final, you can learn the skills of how to write a perfect Issue Spotting Exam before you have learned the substantive law.  In fact, it’s actually better to learn essay writing separately. 

 

The same strategies will show you how to spot all the issues and write a killer essay in every class. 

 

Think back to the LSAT.  At first the logic games seemed impossible.  But once you know the strategies, it becomes infinitely easier. 

 

Writing a law school essay might seem like a dark art, but when you look at it piece by piece, you see a repeatable process that will work on any exam in any class. 

 

What you need is a guide that breaks down law school exams and takes you step by step through the writing process. 

 

But when we looked around, we saw that everything available was terrible. 

 

When you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. 

 

So we built the best law school essay writing system on the planet.  We took the best parts from our own experience, LEEWS, Law School Confidential, Getting to Maybe, Law School Toolbox, Planet Law School (and about a dozen more) to form the single greatest law school tool ever devised. 

 

We teach you how to write every essay in every class in a way that is guaranteed to get you better grades in law school. 

 

You will never fear another law school exam. 

 

We Change the Way You Look At Law School

 

The Legal Eagle Masterclass is rooted in the principle that every single piece of information you study needs to be relevant and valuable to your final exam—if it’s not, it’s not worth studying.

 

Our masterclass will teach you what to look for so you’re not squandering your precious time with worthless facts and figures—you’ll be studying less, learning more, and getting better grades than your classmates.  

 

The hidden benefit is that once you know what a final exam looks like and what a good essay requires, it changes the way you read cases, outline, and study.  That’s because you’ll know what can be relevant to an essay and what can’t.  

 

It cuts out all the busy work. 

 

The amount of time you will save is staggering. 

 

We started with crushing final exams and worked backwards from there. 

 

We built an entire system that deconstructs law school including:

 

• Learn Time Management tools that will save you hours

• Create the perfect Outline for studying

• Gain laser focused study habits

• Cut out all the busy work from class preparation

 

Legal Eagle is the secret weapon to working smarter and getting A’s in law school. 

 

It’s Complete Enlightenment: These are practical, on-the-ground tactics for all aspects of law school—homework, classwork, outlines, studying, and—most importantly—EXAMS.