Law Preview
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Law Preview, LLC is a company based in Plymouth, Massachusetts which offers a 5 or 6 day law school prep course called Law Preview , designed to prepare entering law students for law school.
The course is based around the six core law school
courses that most students encounter in their first year - torts, civil procedure
, contracts, property
, criminal law
and legal research and writing. Each day of the course is devoted to one first-year subject and prominent professors are brought in from law schools across the country, including Dan Kahan from Yale Law School
and G Marcus Cole from Stanford Law School
. The company advertises a 99% satisfaction rate and has a page devoted to alumni testimonials by law school that are unsolicited.
Law Preview has also teamed up with some leading BigLaw firms (and top law schools) to offer scholarships for diverse students matriculating at select law schools.
, Boston
, Chicago
, Dayton
, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Los Angeles
, Miami, New York City
, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
. Several larger locations such as New York, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. offer several sessions each. Though the time frame changes slightly each year, the Law Preview courses generally run from late June to late August.
Law School Confidential by Robert H. Miller says, "Law Preview provides an excellent, long overdue product. Taking the one-week bootcamp cannot help but put you miles ahead of your uninitiated competition." The course has also appeared in The Law School Survival Guide by the editors of JD Jungle.
The course is based around the six core law school
Law school
A law school is an institution specializing in legal education.- Law degrees :- Canada :...
courses that most students encounter in their first year - torts, civil procedure
Civil procedure
Civil procedure is the body of law that sets out the rules and standards that courts follow when adjudicating civil lawsuits...
, contracts, property
Property
Property is any physical or intangible entity that is owned by a person or jointly by a group of people or a legal entity like a corporation...
, criminal law
Criminal law
Criminal law, is the body of law that relates to crime. It might be defined as the body of rules that defines conduct that is not allowed because it is held to threaten, harm or endanger the safety and welfare of people, and that sets out the punishment to be imposed on people who do not obey...
and legal research and writing. Each day of the course is devoted to one first-year subject and prominent professors are brought in from law schools across the country, including Dan Kahan from Yale Law School
Yale Law School
Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...
and G Marcus Cole from Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located in the area known as the Silicon Valley, near Palo Alto, California in the United States. The Law School was established in 1893 when former President Benjamin Harrison joined the faculty as the first professor of law...
. The company advertises a 99% satisfaction rate and has a page devoted to alumni testimonials by law school that are unsolicited.
Law Preview has also teamed up with some leading BigLaw firms (and top law schools) to offer scholarships for diverse students matriculating at select law schools.
Locations
Law Preview is offered at 14 locations across the United States: Atlanta, Austin, TexasAustin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
, Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
, Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, Dayton
Dayton
Dayton is a city in Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, United States.Dayton may also refer to:-United States:*Dayton, Alabama*Dayton, California, in Butte County*Dayton, Lassen County, California*Dayton, Idaho*Dayton, Indiana...
, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, Miami, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
. Several larger locations such as New York, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. offer several sessions each. Though the time frame changes slightly each year, the Law Preview courses generally run from late June to late August.
Law School Confidential by Robert H. Miller says, "Law Preview provides an excellent, long overdue product. Taking the one-week bootcamp cannot help but put you miles ahead of your uninitiated competition." The course has also appeared in The Law School Survival Guide by the editors of JD Jungle.