Curricular Support
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Our curriculum is designed to empower law students with the essential skills and knowledge needed to excel in law school, pass the bar exam, and thrive in their legal careers. Through targeted instruction, timely assessment, and personalized remediation, we support students at every stage of their law school career – building foundational competencies, strengthening core legal skills, and preparing them for success in law school, the bar exam, and beyond. By delivering the right support at the right time, our offerings extend the runway for student success, ensuring graduates are confident, capable, and ready for the challenges ahead.
PRE-FIRST YEAR CURRICULAR SUPPORT
Lawyering Fundamentals
Demystify the law school experience, identify at-risk students, and build community with your new 1L matriculants.
Lawyering Fundamentals is a pre-1L program designed to level-set incoming 1Ls while providing meaningful data that helps you identify at-risk students early on. It also gives students an opportunity to connect with their ASPs before they even set foot on campus.
Lawyering Fundamentals equips students with an understanding of what it means to “think like a lawyer” and acclimates them to the law school experience sooner, so they can succeed faster.
Intentional Torts is used as the vehicle to introduce critical success skills, including case briefing, how to effectively read cases, learn in Socratic classes, legal problem solving and legal analysis skills, basic legal writing and thinking using the IRAC paradigm, outlining, and much more.
Assessment
Students complete a final exam comprised of both an essay question and multiple-choice questions at the conclusion of the program. This exam, together with assessments administered during the program, provides you with meaningful data on each incoming student, all before the first day of class.
Course Delivery
The course can be delivered asynchronously as an online summer program over three weeks, or it may be taught by your faculty as an intensive during the orientation period.
FIRST YEAR CURRICULAR SUPPORT
The Client Centered Legal Analysis Curriculum
Simulated NextGen-style client exercises and skill training for first-year students.
This new comprehensive curricular program introduces students to law school and helps them develop critical skills for legal practice and the NextGen UBE Bar Exam.
Each chapter includes instruction on fundamental legal analysis skills like case reading, briefing, legal reasoning, etc., with specific in-class exercises to help students fully develop and express each skill. Client simulations and the provided practice questions expose students to the types of questions they will confront after they graduate.
The corresponding teaching materials and textbook, Client-Centered Legal Analysis (West Academic 2025), is authored by Joni Wiredu (American University College of Law) and Steven Foster (Oklahoma City University School of Law). It includes instruction, as well as activities, additional questions, and exams, providing a robust curriculum for instructors to adopt.
Instructors will receive sample course syllabi, course objective, individual objectives, and recommendations for in-class activities. The textbook and supplemental materials are intended to make teaching the course for the first time easy so faculty can spend time helping students improve.
SECOND YEAR CURRICULAR SUPPORT FOR AT-RISK STUDENTS
Targeted Intervention Curriculum
Remediate and strengthen legal skills in a “classroom as law firm” environment.
This course is aimed at strengthening the core legal skills necessary for students to succeed – not only in law school, but on the bar exam, and ultimately, in legal practice. The curriculum model treats students as lawyers-in-training to overtly reveal the connection between core legal skills and real-world practice of law. Students will bolster their command of legal concepts, such as:
- Compelling legal analysis
- Critical reading
- Rule mastery and issue spotting
- Effective written and oral communication
The skills learned help prepare all students for practice and it’s also highly NextGen responsive for those in NextGen jurisdictions.
Students have numerous opportunities to sharpen these areas through hands-on skill-focused practice, group exercises, and practical lawyering activities. Personalized, individual feedback enables students to learn how to evaluate their work and develop a clear pathway for continuous improvement.
Course instructors are invited to attend an online curriculum training and will have access to ongoing support throughout the semester.
SECOND YEAR CURRICULAR SUPPORT
2L Bridge to Practice Curriculum
Practical skill development for the next generation of lawyers.
Utilizing Sarah Berman’s new book, 2L Success: A Lawyering Skills Professional Identity Workbook for Next Generation Lawyers (West Academic 2025), this customizable “Bridge to Practice” curriculum transitions students seamlessly from academic study to practical legal work, with the added benefit of preparing students for the NextGen bar exam.
“Bridge to Practice” is more than a course; it’s a steppingstone to a successful legal career. Instructors are invited to join a curriculum training and will have access to ongoing support throughout the semester.
Key Features:
- Practical Skills Development: Focused on honing the skills necessary for effective legal practice, this curriculum covers areas such as legal research and writing, client communication, negotiation, advocacy, and case management. Students will learn how to navigate complex legal issues with confidence.
- Experiential Learning Opportunities: Engage in real-world client scenarios that mimic the challenges faced by practicing attorneys. Through hands-on experience using performance task style assignments, students will develop problem-solving abilities and learn to apply theoretical knowledge and practical scenarios.
- Ethical Professional Responsibility: Gain a deeper understanding of ethical considerations and professional responsibilities that underpin legal practice. Students will explore the importance of integrity, accountability, and ethical decision-making in the legal field.
- NextGen Readiness: By the end of the course, students will be equipped with many of the skills necessary for success on the NextGen bar exam.
THIRD YEAR CURRICULAR SUPPORT
3L Legacy UBE Extended Bar Review Curriculum
Jumpstart bar exam preparation with focused skill training and substantive review for the Legacy UBE.
Available for both in-person or asynchronous delivery, this course eases students into bar preparation by allotting more time for instruction and applied practice by sharply focusing on contextualized substantive review of the most heavily tested MBE doctrines.
Students will gain a strong conceptual understanding and in-depth knowledge of contextualized substantive review of foundational concepts across three or four subjects and will be taught how to develop, use, and apply a flexible but robust analytical framework to solve bar exam problems.
In preparation for class, students review the substantive doctrine through interactive online lectures, reading the assigned text and completing MBE and essay questions. Students will learn how to methodically analyze and answer both MBE and essay questions by learning and mastering BARBRI’s Systematic Legal Problem-Solving Method – a problem-based review of the law and bar skills. Systematic Problem-Solving exercises include questions and examples that have been carefully selected to build critical bar skills, including:
- Reading comprehension
- Issue identification
- Rule mastery and application
- Critical thinking, and
- Legal analysis
Students will receive a course textbook and access to BARBRI’s online lectures. Course faculty are invited to attend a training session and will have access to ongoing support during the semester. We also offer helpful exam strategy workshops, inkling MBE Advantage, Essay Advantage, and MPT Advantage.
THIRD YEAR CURRICULAR SUPPORT
3L NextGen Topics Curriculum
Jumpstart bar exam preparation with focused skill training and substantive review for the NextGen Exam
This course jump starts bar exam preparation by providing a skills-focused contextualized review of several foundation concepts and skills across all question types. It can be delivered asynchronously or in person.
Students begin with a NextGen diagnostic to assess their current level of readiness. Throughout the course, students engage in hands-on practice with NextGen style multiple-choice questions, integrated questions, and performance tasks, gaining familiarity with the format of the exam and sharpening essential bar exam skills.
Students receive personalized, individual feedback on assessments to promote understanding and build confidence.
Interactive lectures enhanced with animations keep students engaged and promote active learning. The course also features newly developed NextGen training modules to help students build the skills they’ll need for the exam. The skill development segments use client scenarios as vehicles to develop skill proficiency and reinforce understanding of law.
The course concludes with a comprehensive final exam that simulates a complete 3-hour session of the exam.
The content can be configured to include a jurisdiction-specific component.