Courses
Coaching for the courses that shape your transcript.
Five subjects, eight courses. Pick the course you're preparing for, or more than one, and bring your syllabus and notes so sessions match what your course covers.
Usually taken in 1L
Torts I & II
Torts asks when someone has to pay for harm they caused. Exams often pack one fact pattern with several parties and several possible claims.
What it usually covers
- Intentional torts such as battery, assault, and false imprisonment, plus their defenses
- Negligence: duty, breach, actual and proximate cause, and damages
- Strict liability and products liability
- Torts II topics vary by school, often defamation, privacy, and nuisance
Where exam points slip away
- Missing a party or a claim in a crowded fact pattern
- Listing negligence elements without applying each one to the facts
- Arguing proximate cause in only one direction
- Forgetting the defenses
What coaching works on
Organizing an answer by party and by claim, stating each element cleanly, and arguing causation both ways.
Usually taken in 1L
Contracts I & II
Contracts is about which promises the law will enforce, and what happens when one is broken. Exams reward careful, step-by-step analysis.
What it usually covers
- Formation: offer, acceptance, and consideration
- Promissory estoppel
- Defenses such as the statute of frauds, mistake, duress, and unconscionability
- Interpretation and the parol evidence rule
- Conditions, performance, breach, and remedies
- UCC Article 2 for sales of goods
Where exam points slip away
- Jumping to breach before settling whether a contract was formed
- Missing whether the UCC or the common law applies
- Naming a remedy without the reasoning behind it
- Spotting a defense but not arguing it
What coaching works on
Checklists for formation, defenses, and remedies, and the habit of walking through each step in order.
Usually taken in 1L
Civil Procedure I & II
Civil Procedure covers how a lawsuit moves through court, from where it can be filed to whether a judgment sticks. Many questions turn on multi-step tests.
What it usually covers
- Personal jurisdiction and subject-matter jurisdiction
- Venue and removal
- The Erie doctrine
- Pleadings and joinder
- Discovery and summary judgment
- Claim and issue preclusion
Where exam points slip away
- Skipping a step in a jurisdiction analysis
- Paraphrasing a rule instead of applying its actual terms
- Treating Erie questions as guesswork
- Losing track of which party wants what
What coaching works on
Step-by-step frameworks for jurisdiction and Erie, precise use of the rules, and practice questions.
Crim Law usually 1L · Crim Pro often later
Criminal Law & Procedure
Criminal Law asks what makes conduct a crime; Criminal Procedure asks what the Constitution requires of police and prosecutors. Exams test both the elements and the exceptions.
What it usually covers
- Actus reus and mens rea
- Homicide
- Defenses
- Attempt, conspiracy, and accomplice liability
- Fourth Amendment search and seizure
- Miranda and the right to counsel
Where exam points slip away
- Blurring mental states the law treats differently
- Missing a lesser offense or an available defense
- Stating a Fourth Amendment rule without walking through its exceptions
What coaching works on
Element-by-element analysis, organizing search-and-seizure questions, and arguing whether an exception applies.
Usually an upper-level course
Family Law
Family Law covers how the law forms, supports, and ends family relationships. Exams often turn on standards and multi-factor tests rather than bright-line rules.
What it usually covers
- Marriage and its alternatives
- Divorce
- Property division
- Spousal support
- Child custody and child support
- Parentage
Where exam points slip away
- Naming a standard, like the best interests of the child, without applying its factors to the facts
- Answering a policy question without taking a clear position
- Dividing property without stating the jurisdiction's approach
What coaching works on
Applying multi-factor tests to the facts, and structuring policy answers.
Every course
Different subjects, the same exam skills.
Whatever the course, strong answers follow the same pattern. Coaching drills it until it's automatic.
Issue
Find every legal question the facts raise.
Rule
State the governing rule clearly and completely.
Application
Use the facts and argue both sides.
Conclusion
Commit to the likely outcome, and say why.
Skills coaching sharpens
- Issue spotting
- Rule statements
- Analysis that uses the facts
- Counterarguments
- Answer structure
- Time management
- Outlines & attack outlines
- Practice exams & hypotheticals
- Multiple-choice strategy
- Policy questions
- An exam-day plan
Topics vary by school and professor. See a worked example on the home page.
Introductory rates
Introductory rates won't last. Your exams won't wait.
Two coaching sessions a month for $50, or group coaching for your organization for $750. Prices go up in the next few months.