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You read and brief classic Torts cases. You learn to outline a full course and get feedback on your outline. You learn what an A exam is actually made of and how to write one. And you take a cumulative final under real conditions, then get detailed feedback on exactly how you did.
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You write every week. Writing about the law is the skill that decides exam grades, and it is the one almost no one lets you practice in advance. By the time the course ends, you’ll have written more exam-style analysis than most 1Ls write before their first graded exam. And gotten far more detailed feedback than professors tend to give.
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You meet with Seida one on one every week. Just you and her, to go through your feedback, your questions, and anything in the course that hasn’t clicked yet. It’s the kind of personalized coaching you never get once you are in a packed 1L classroom, and here you get it every week, before any of it counts.
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By the end of the course, you have read cases, briefed them, argued them, outlined a course, written about the law five times, and taken a real final. You have been through a semester of law school before your first one begins.
It's only the beginning.
You earned this. Four years of college, months on the LSAT, applications, waiting, decisions. You got in. And after that, it’s natural to feel you’ve reached the finish line.
But you’re about to start the hardest semester of your most important academic year.
You’re just getting started.
- Law school is not college. In college, if you worked hard and did what you were supposed to do, you got good grades. That deal does not hold here. You can go to every class, join a study group, read and brief every case, sit in office hours, and still do poorly.
- The reason is simple. No one teaches you how to do law school. Schools assume you’ll pick it up. Professors ask questions they don’t always answer and expect you to figure out the law.
- Worse, you get very little feedback along the way. In most classes, a single final exam determines your entire grade.
- That is the gap 1L Advantage was built to close.
Taking the 1L prep class made all the difference for my first semester of law school. Seida was so patient and gave me the confidence and skills necessary to hit the ground running, and get straight A's my first semester. I'm so grateful for Seida and J.D. Genius for helping me prepare well for the first season of my legal career!"
Maya V.Maryland Carey Law grad &
practicing attorney
Why your first semester carries so much weight
Law school grades on a strict curve. Unlike in college, not everyone can get an A, no matter how hard they work. Only a fixed slice of the class lands at the top, and the curve decides who.
You can graduate from a T14 law school and still be earning less than six figures, because you finished under the curve your first year. That’s with $250,000 in loans.
The good news is that the skills that drive success in law school can be learned, practiced, and improved. And that’s exactly what 1L Advantage is designed to do.
What the four weeks actually looks like
1L Advantage is a real law school class, run in miniature, before the stakes are real.
Who You'll Learn From
Licensed attorney; 1st in her 1L class of 400
Founder, Primary Instructor Seida Wood
What You'll Learn
- Read and brief classic 1L cases
- Learn how to write a law school exam using IRAC
- Complete weekly mini-exams and writing assignments
- Practice outlining a 1L course
- Build a practical exam attack outline
- Take a mock final exam
- Receive detailed feedback on all assignments
- Meet weekly with Seida for personalized coaching
Your 1L Advantage
- While your classmates are learning how to brief a case, you’ve already briefed 20
- While they’re figuring out how to outline a course, you’ve already built two
- While they’re preparing for their first law school exam, you’ve already taken one
- While they’re guessing what professors want, you’ve already learned how to write it
