the LawBoost Advantage

If you’ve found our website, you’re probably considering whether a law school preparation course makes sense for you.  Let us tell you why we believe LawBoost is the perfect choice for so many entering law students. 

In our program, you’ll have the opportunity to perform actual first-semester law school writing assignments, and have those assignments critiqued.  We focus on making you a clear, precise and adaptable writer, helping you develop the skills necessary to do well in law school.  It’s “real” law school – just before the grades matter!

Our philosophy for this course is not to introduce you to everything about law school because that is simply impossible to accomplish in a short course. Instead, we focus on what is most important for establishing a strong foundation in legal reasoning and legal writing – the two most crucial skills for law school success.

Although there is a basic structure that underlies all law school writing, every professor has an individual “take” on that structure. Thus, one important aspect of our course teaches you to competently question professors about their preferences so that you can adapt your writing to each professor's desires. This will allow you to deliver exam answers in a manner that will significantly improve your likelihood of receiving good exam grades.

LawBoost’s goal is to provide our students with a four week “head start” on law school so that their transitions are quicker, smoother, and more effective. we say this for several reasons.

First, our courses cover the equivalent of what you would likely do in the first four weeks of that law school course.

Second, because our course takes place before classes begin, you will not be distracted by other activities (such as other 1L courses) that will impede your classmates' learning of legal reasoning and writing during the first semester.

Third, if you speak to law students, law graduates, law professors, or if you visit the popular law school discussion boards, two basic thoughts emerge regarding legal writing and law school preparatory courses. They are that legal writing is the most important class in law school, and that commercial law school preparatory courses are expensive and not very helpful in preparing students for law school.

We agree with those thoughts with one big exception: LawBoost is not expensive and it’s very helpful in preparing you for law school. we realize that we are somewhat biased, so let us explain our position. Additionally, because we do have a vested interest in convincing you that this course is worthwhile, we 've included the email addresses of former students on our testimonial page (so that you may contact them directly to ask them about the course). But here’s our take.

Legal Writing
Legal writing is the most important class in law school, and writing is the most important skill to perfect in law school because almost all law school tests are essay exams -- not multiple choice or short-answer exams. A common complaint among first-year law students is that the grades they receive do not accurately reflect their understanding of the coursework. Many of these students are correct. The inconsistency between the understanding of a subject and the grade received for that subject usually comes down to the writing.  In law school, a student will lose points if the answer is not clear, concise, and precise – even if it technically provides the “right” information.

As one former student stated, "This class convinced me that ‘it's the writing, stupid!’  It doesn't matter how well we know the black letter law, if we can't write logical, concise, and complete analyses of legal questions, then we won't succeed."

Law School Preparatory Courses
If you speak to law students and law professors, most will say that many commercial law school preparatory courses are expensive and not very helpful. The reason that many of these courses are not helpful is that they focus on the wrong thing.

Many commercial law school preparatory courses review the first-year subjects of civil procedure, contracts, constitutional law, criminal law, and torts. These courses review the cases and law to build students' substantive legal knowledge. Despite this apparent head start on learning and dissecting law school cases and theories, there is no real advantage to reviewing this information prior to law school.

In every 1L course, you will begin “learning the law” from day one. On a daily basis, professors will review, discuss, and dissect cases so that every class will reinforce and expand your body of knowledge. Within the first four to six weeks of law school, you will probably read fifty cases or more. Within a month or so, the overwhelming majority of students have mastered a fairly substantial swath of law, and that is the reason most law professors and law students believe commercial law school prep courses are not useful.

Some commercial courses do offer a one-day legal writing course, but legal writing theory without the opportunity to practice that theory is not sufficient. Legal writing is only effectively learned if your writing is repeatedly critiqued, and that does not happen in a one-day course.

Conclusion
The difference between doing well and doing poorly in law school (perhaps the difference between an A and B+) is often not the content of the answer, but the quality of the writing. This course is a springboard for you to learn how to produce the quality of writing you need to succeed in law school.

Good luck in law school --we look forward to working with you.