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Why is it so hard to find a proven strategy to ace law school (even though your whole future as a lawyer depends on it)?

You are riding a roller coaster of emotions . . . even before you get to law school.

You feel jolts of excitement and a “gnawing anxiety, hope and despair . . .when you just think about going to law school (or even thinking about it once you’re there).

And all your nerves and emotions — you’re not crazy for feeling all these things.

You’ve got a lot riding on law school.

Let’s do the math: three hard years, $250,000 in loans . . . not to mention countless late nights, and all the blood, toil, tears and sweat.

It is probably the hardest thing you’ve ever done — academically, anyway — in your life.

All to get that precious Juris Doctor degree and become a lawyer.

And, add this to mix: so many people supported you to just get you to law school. Your parents, your friends, your loved ones. (And maybe they’re helping you foot the bill, too!)

So many people want to see you succeed.

They were there for you when you pulled late nights studying in college, preparing for the LSAT, putting those law school applications together.

They held your hand and fretted with you while you waited for a fat envelope from a good law school.

DO YOU REMEMBER: they were so proud when you got in! Because, to them and you, that fat envelope meant seeing you . . . on the Supreme Court, on Wall Street, at the United Nations, saving the world. Or just being your family’s Atticus Finch — a decent, wise lawyer willing to do the right thing and fight the good fight. (I’m just going to pretend that new book didn’t come out.)

They have high hopes for you.

For that matter, YOU have high hopes for you.

That’s the only obstacle between you and those high hopes: law school.

* * *

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away . . . it was enough to just get in to law school.

Decades ago, law school wasn’t so expensive, and there were good jobs for most who got through law school.

As recently as 15 years ago, on my first day as a law student, our dean told us to stop fretting, stop competing with our peers, because we had made it.

But a jolt of reality: THOSE DAYS ARE LONG GONE.

We both know that you haven’t made it yet, just getting into law school.

You’ve made it when you snag that sweet job that no one guarantees you’ll get anymore.

And your best shot at nailing that job — and making them proud (and making yourself proud) — is getting good grades.

So you think to yourself: OK, I am smart, and I am not afraid of working hard. I got good grades in college, and I can get them in law school.

Right?

Well, no. It’s not that simple.

See, law school is different.

Really different.

And if you did your research — and if you’re here, you certainly did — you know this already.

Problem is, when you did research, there is so much noise.

So many voices. All screaming “I know how to make you succeed in law school!”

And so many contradicting opinions.

“Brief cases! Don’t brief cases! Buy canned case briefs! Don’t! Outline early! Outline late! Take practice exams now! Wait until the end! Don’t use commercial outlines!”

You still have vague ideas about how to do well in law school that are even more confused by everyone’s contradictory advice.

And the stakes of not figuring this out are huge.

You’ve heard the horror stories: endless debt, unemployment or underemployment, sleepless nights, depression.

The very opposite of your dream.

You don’t want law school to be a waste.

And yet you can’t find the right way. You can’t find a proven way out of this mess and to the land of law school success.

Well, in Douglas Adams’ immortal words: DON’T PANIC!

Let’s work through this problem together.

Something does not add up here.

How can smart, hard-working people get crappy grades? Once we understand that, we are half way to a solution.

Here is the problem.

Let’s look at one of the quotes from a panicked law student:

“I feel that professors do not tell you what they are looking for until after they grade your work.”

Well, what is it that they want you to do during the semester?

Many professors ask you to:

Do the reading to prepare for class.
Brief cases.
Be prepared to be called on in class. OR FACE UTTER AND COMPLETE RIDICULE A LA THE PAPER CHASE.
But even if you’re prepared your professor may MOCK YOU TO YOUR FACE.

You’re asked about the tiniest, stupidest details in cases. So you frantically read cases and brief and study to avoid looking stupid in class.

You hate looking stupid in class.

But then as the fall turns into winter, the professors tells you: Hey, maybe you should outline and take some practice exams.

You get passed a second-hand outline and have no idea why it is what it is. So you basically condense your notes and try to copy other old outlines.

And you take some practice exams.

They make no sense to you.

You stay up late nights before your finals. Too much Red Bull and coffee. You frantically re-read your outline, your books and old exams.

You still feel lost.

You go to sleep, wake up and walk to class. You sit down.

You open your first real exam and this is the first page of 6 pages of craziness:(That was a real exam that my students took when I was a teaching assistant in law school.)

WTF?

Um, WTMFF?

How do I answer that?

People around you just start typing.

Type type type type type type.

So you begin to type and freak out more – what do they know that you don’t that they are typing already one minute after you start?

You read the exam and type again.

You flip your outline. You sweat more.

One hour passes. Just two left.

Everyone is still typing. So you start typing half-hearted answers. You curse because each of your answers seems stupid.

One hour left. You’ve barely answered the first question and there are two more. So you begin typing quickly. You see claims or defenses; you don’t know if what you’ve written is right, but you are running out of time.

Suddenly the proctor calls five minutes left.

You type even faster.

Your palms sweat.

Time.

You stand up. You gather your computer and papers, pack up and stagger back to your room.

What just happened?

What the f— just happened?

You go home for Christmas. Weeks later you check your grades online only to get straight Bs, putting you in the middle of your class.

The crux of the matter:

When you went to college, the recipe to get an A was to work very hard doing what your professor asked you to do.

But when you go to law school, that is the recipe for getting straight Bs.

In other words, law school is a bait and switch.

And what’s worse, your final exam is 100% of your grade.

And you never get feedback until it is too late.

* * *

So what do I do? And who the hell are you, Larry Law Law, to tell me what to do?

Now, before you hear the solution, you might be asking, “Why should I listen to you?”

Fair enough.

I am Larry Law Law (formerly known as Mansfield J Park, Larry the Law Tutor or the Law School Hacker).

This is me (I’m shy…):

(Imagine me saying “I am Larry Law Law” in the Christian Bale as Batman voice.)

Why you should listen to me despite my insane pictures:

First, I was a top law student myself.

I graduated from NYU Law magna cum laude and Order of the Coif (top 10%), and a member of the Executive Board on NYU Law Review.

I was a top lawyer

In 2012 and 2013, I was named a Rising Star in New York Superlawyers, a magazine that tracks the top 2.5% of lawyers in New York City in 2012 and 2013.

I worked at a top law firm

I worked at Debevoise & Plimpton, The #1 Law Firm according to one set of measures by American Lawyer over the last 10 years (To be honest I do not think of Debevoise as the best law firm in the country, but it is an excellent law firm). While at Debevoise, I won the very first Cyrus Vance Access to Justice Award (an award which has gone to much more important people than me):

Most importantly I was a top-rated law tutor to top law students at top schools who got top grades

For some years, on the side, I tutored law school students at Harvard, Texas, Columbia, NYU and other schools. (Mansfield Park was my pseudonym for some time).

My students get As.

Check out my students’ results (one real transcript of the many real student I worked with who kicked the crap out of law school):

I used to tutor law students directly, one on one.

I love to help students succeed.

I hate the way law school is taught.

Professors test you on issue-spotting, but never teach you how to issue-spot.

And you have no opportunity for feedback. You will never learn from your mistakes because your professor likely will never tell you what you did wrong.

You will never get a marked-up exam. The only thing you get back is your grade.

This course does exactly what a professor should do: Give you a chance to practice, make mistakes and learn from them before your real exams.

I don’t tutor students anymore.

I have a day job I love. And a family I love.

They take time.

Also, even if I had all the time in the world, as I tutor, I could not reach everyone personally.

Even if I spent every waking hour tutoring, I couldn’t help everyone I wanted.

I have a life, and tutoring was beginning to fill all of my extra hours.

So I decided I had to create this online course to help as many law students as I could.

Now, back to you.

What do you need?

Let’s start with what you don’t need.

You DON’T need generic advice: “Study hard.” “Listen in class.” “Read all the cases.” “Eat breakfast the morning of the exam.”

(You should do that, but, duh.)

You DO need super-specific advice that has worked for other students and is going to work for you.

And you need not just the what to do, but how to do what you need to do to success.

Real, nitty-gritty how.

You’re smart. (Otherwise you wouldn’t have gotten into law school). You work hard. You’ve always known what to do. (Before law school, anyway.) But now, for the first time, you are (understandably) a bit unsure on what you have to do to get good grades.

What if there were a straightforward, proven, battle-tested guide on how to study law the right way?

A guide with specific, step-by-step tactics?

A specific set of step-by-step tactics on how to study law and for preparing for and excelling on your law school exams?

I would have really have loved to have something like this on how to study law when I started as a law student. I would have loved knowing that there were specific, battle-tested tested tactics on doing well in law school.

A real system to study law.

Just for you: A proven, battle-tested system to get top grades in law school

I am inviting you to join KICK THE CRAP OUT OF LAW SCHOOL (KTCOOLS).

I developed this system through trial and error tutoring law students.

I was a very good law student, but it was not until I really tutored law students that I really understood consciously how to do well in law school.

The program I have put together for your reflects years of experience working with real law students on law schools exam and learning to help them focus on the things that really matter.

What’s in this course?

This is a screenshot of what is waiting for your right now — the main page of the course.

This premium online course provides a mix of video and written lessons.

But it is not passive.

You must work.

There are exercises, especially in Module 3, where you will write out written answers to issue-spotting exercises, so that you develop the specific skill that will get you As in law school.

I will give you the tools you need to assess your r own performance so you can become better, faster and stronger!!!

My job is to help you help yourself.

Now, at a high level, here is the overall structure of the course: (Guaranteed, this will change later, but this is it for now). As you can see there are 4 main MODULES:

MODULE 1: FUNDAMENTALS

Includes 20 lessons (several hours of material) on a general strategy for approaching law school. Basically I advocate focusing on 3 major areas: mastering the law, mastering issue spotting, and mastering your professor. This strategy is connected to the specific things in law school that drive success (your grades, which are based on your final exams, which are based on your ability to master the three things I just mentioned).
Since the final exam is all-important, we begin with a discussion of that and just what a strange thing it is.
Meanwhile, we provide specific tactics and, more importantly, the deep psychology of law school. Despite final exams being the only thing that mattered, law school piles on a lot of other work that gets in the way. I give you super-specific tactics on how to avoid the huge TIME SUCKS that do not matter for your final grades.
Now, if you go through this module alone and apply these tactics to your law school life — I mean more than just reading them, actually apply them to your law school life — you will be ahead of the vast majority of your law school classmates and feel much better about law school.
Here is a preview of MODULE 1:

MODULE 2: MASTER THE LAW

Includes 10 separate lessons on how to “pre-study” the law, how to read and think about cases, and how to outline (and why you should start at the beginning of the semester, not the end).
Includes resources to help you self-study the law (my old outlines), including videos on tricky parts of each 1L subject: criminal law, torts, contracts, civil procedure, and property. (Con law and legislation/regulation will be coming soon).
Here is a sample of a video lesson from Master the Law (an explanation of a doctrine in property law):

MODULE 3: MASTER ISSUE SPOTTING

Includes 20 separate written and video lessons providing super-specific exam tactics, including how to actually apply IRAC.
This is the nitty gritty. You want and need tactics that you can’t find anywhere else. They are here.
Here is a preview of the main lessons in MODULE 3:

Modules 3a to 3d

These are applications of MODULE 3, but they are the very heart of this program. You take the tactics that you read about in MODULE 3, and APPLY THEM in specific exercises for specifc classes for your 1st year in law school, in Modules 3a (criminal law), 3b (torts
This section, in my mind, is the beating heart of the course. You will get a lot of value out of the other Modules. But if you skip this one, you really risk not . Let me put this another way: my students who worked diligently through these exercises are the ones who excelled at the highest levels at top law schools: I am talking top-of-the-class students at Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, Chicago, Texas, etc., etc., etc
NO OTHER COURSE that I know of provides this many hypotheticals and mini-exams, AND self-assessment tools
IMPORTANT NOTE: On top of the self-assessment and scoring materials I give you here, some of you have asked for tutoring. I will be offering tutoring services (through this site) only for paid users of KTCOOLS AND on the condition that you work through these exercises.
I will be adding other units shortly, including property and con law in the near future. Admin or legislation/regulation – a staple of many first year programs — will come later in the future.
Below are previous of 3a (criminal law) and 3c (contracts law). Notice that each subject has more than 10 issue spotting exercises (hypos) for you to work through and include “debriefs”:

And here is an example of a hypo exam:

And the here is an example of a self-scoring sheet (it’s called a quiz, but it’s not. I include only the first 12 answers here):

And here is a video analysis of a real student answer (I don’t have these or model student answers for every exam yet, but we’re getting there):

MODULE 4: MASTER YOUR PROFESSOR

Includes specific tips on reading your professor, different kinds of professorial styles.
This section is super psychological, and it is the last step between and A- and an A. Most of the work is in mastering the law and mastering issue spotting. You should be able to get at least decent grades with those two skills alone (a lot of B+s and A-s, and occasional As). But this part separates the A-s from the As.
Think of this as how to run fast in the last part of the marathon.
Here is a sample video from this section, which I am still building out:

Maybe you have some questions before you buy KTCOOLS…

Q: How long do I get access to KTCOOLS?

A: 18 months starting from when you buy the course. So, for instance, if you buy now but don’t plan on starting law school until Fall 2016, YOU ARE GOOD TO GO THROUGH Summer of 2017!

Q: Does this really work?

A: Yes. Mostly I have noticed that students who do the work — those who get the A.

Q: OK, what if I try it and don’t love it? A: You can test drive the course. If you don’t like it, just cancel within 60 days of your payment, and we’ll refund your money. No worries, no hard feelings. I think you will find that my step-by-step tips on how to study law are unique and helpful, that the worksheets will help you apply these techniques, and that your fellow students will be a huge source of support (and you will be able to grab my ear and have me answer your questions for no additional charge – I will give you individual advice that previously I only gave my tutoring students). You will find that this entire experience is worth not just the modest price (remember, so-called law prep courses start at several thousand dollars), but also your time and attention. Again, if you don’t agree, you can cancel within 60 days of purchasing the course. No worries at all. By the way, if you stick around, you will have early access to new materials I create. Once the core six modules of the course are complete, you will still have access to advanced and bonus material that I throw in down the line, and to the goodies and bonuses I add later to stack value and make the course even better. It’s my goal to make sure there’s always valuable new material for you to enjoy during your law school journey (and after).

Q: What makes KTCOOLS better than Law Preview or other courses?

A: Other programs buy into the professor’s view of things. It is professors teaching the course and they lack perspective, funny enough, on how to do well on exams. They tend to provide you “previews” of substantive areas as well. But they spend very little time on exam-specific tactics and don’t give you comprehensive practice doing issue spotting. Law Preview, in particular, spends much more time trying to teach you substantive law than exam tactics.

Q: Can you guarantee that I will get As?

A: No. Seriously, if that is what you want — a guarantee of As — this course is not for you. I give you a 60 day money back guarantee, but a metaphysical guarantee? No. Anyone who tells you they can “guarantee” you 100% that you will get straight As is lying. I can tell you that the techniques you will learn are tested and have resulted in students at the best law schools getting top grades. The difference is you. You need to work hard. And you need to be creative on your own. But I give you all the tools you need to do well. In my experience, if you follow the system, you are very, very likely to do as well as you need to get the legal career of your dreams. But you have to follow the system.

Q: Do I really need to study over the summer? Do I really need this?

A: That’s up to you. Do you really want to wait and find out only later that you should have studied over the summer?

Okay. What are you waiting for?

In many years as a lawyer, I learned to give advice that people did not want but had to hear.

That has been useful (sometimes) in my non-lawyer life and sitting down with friends and telling them shit that they did not want to hear.

So here it is: As your trusted counselor and adviser (I AM NOT GIVING LEGAL ADVICE HERE, I am giving friendly career advice), I really believe it is my job to tell you that it is in your interest to buy this course.

You get ONE SHOT at doing law school right.

You can’t go back and re-do it.

You have before you a system — a tested system based on hard-earned experience that has worked for other students who followed it diligently before you.

This system, in my view, maximizes your chances at doing well in law school.

And doing well in law school NOW can change your future forever.

Doing well in law school can mean the difference between debt and success, a career filled with boredom taking orders, and a career in which you can be .

Law school is not for everyone. (In fact, I think it is not for most people.)

But if you are truly committed to excellence in your legal career — buy my course and learn my system.

This is a great value for money.

For the cost of less than two hours of individual tutoring, you get dozens of hours of material, all culled from my one-on-one tutoring program.

It is like sitting with me for hours AND getting the benefit of my best exam tips and actual commentary I have made on my students practice tests.