Law School Prep

Phi Alpha Delta Reporter

Law and Technology Column

Fall 2010

By: David Gray, CEO, www.eCasebriefs.com

Law School Prep Course…for FREE!

Now that the year is in full swing and that you have begun applying to law school, the pressure of being a one L may soon start to develop just a little more. I mean how often to you engage in a graduate school program? Probably not too many times during your life time will you study with such intensity as you will when going through the study of law.

Law school is a very challenging environment and quite scary for most of us who have never endured the wonderful study of law. What most of us wished we would have been exposed to was a better introduction on what to expect in law school. Of course we all read One L, and have seen all of the law TV shows and movies, but for the most part these types of explanations of law school have been developed by very experienced TV, media and movie executives made for the purpose of exciting the general public. What they don’t show you is what it’s really like to be a law student.

Many of the law schools today have a brief introduction to the law school process and what to expect in law school on a day to day basis, but again it is more of a shortened and very brief overview of the experience. I mean how can the school itself condense the study of law? It is they who you will spend three years of your life with so they really don’t want to tell you too much before you actually go through the experience. Next, there are some other courses in the market that are geared to introducing you to the law school experience. The issue with these
courses is that they are usually only given via a specific week during the summer, and if you are not around in your city during that week then you basically missed the boat. Enter the Law School Prep Course on eCasebriefs.com.

The Law School Prep Course on eCasebriefs.com is the most comprehensive introduction to the study of law. Furthermore, the course is open for anyone to attend whether you have been accepted to law school or are just pondering whether becoming a lawyer is for you. Finally, the Course is absolutely free for all to enjoy.

The Course opens with an introduction to the law professors who will teach you what to expect in law school. Professors Tania Shah and Melissa Gill are both esteemed law professors at the University of Massachusetts School of Law, Dartmouth, and will guide you step by step through the law school experience. Furthermore, they both are tutors at LawTutors.net, the nation’s most widely used law tutoring company. The Course then proceeds to build upon itself by following a proper syllabus developed by the professors. You first learn How to Brief a Case. This lecture focuses on what is probably the most important exercise you will perform daily in
the study of law – the case briefing process. Next you move into What to Expect in Class, or how a typical class is taught using the Socratic method of teaching. Then into How to Prepare a Course Outline, which are the materials you personally develop for studying for exams. Then the Professors take you into the Final Exam experience and what to expect. They tell you how to use your course outline in mastering your final exams. It is only at this point that you they have to look forward to the overview of the six core 1L courses: Torts, Property, Contracts, Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure and Criminal Law.

Each of the different lectures mentioned above come with exercises that you perform and submit and are reviewed by Professor’s Shah and Gill who then send you a correct answer to each exercise that you submit. Finally, the Course ends with a full discussion on Study Tips and Hints and a discussion on the proper use of Study Aids to assist with your law school studies.

Taking advantage of the Law School Prep Course on eCasebriefs.com will help you understand the process, and provide you comfort with what to expect when entering law school. There is no other course that provides more substantive information for the introduction to law school than the Law School Prep Course, and one of the biggest benefits of all is that it fits with everyone’s budget – it’s completely free.

David Gray is CEO of eCasebriefs.com and can be reached at

dgray@eCasebriefs.com