A LIVING CASEBOOK · 50 YEARS OF METHOD
The practicum, rendered as a working law firm.
Twenty deep simulated matters across ten practice shapes and two jurisdiction tiers, a surveyed skills taxonomy mapped to FOLIO, simulated client interviews, and the complete business of a two-lawyer firm — every page generated from one open data spine.
THE THREE VOLUMES
Curriculum modules
Foundational
The groundwork — how to think, read, and carry yourself as a lawyer before the substance arrives.
Open volumeSubstantive + Skills
The trades of lawyering, learned on real-shaped matters across ten practice areas.
Open volumeTransition to Practice
The business of law and the professional judgment that turns a graduate into a practitioner.
Open volumeTHE APPARATUS
Explore the practicum
Watch a sample consultation ▸
A recorded client interview — Devon Halvard, charged with DWI — played back turn by turn, then assessed with feedback. See the consultation room and the debrief in action before you bring your own key. Scripted sample, not a live AI client.
Play the sampleSkills browser
26 surveyed lawyering skills — 108 tasks with subtasks, FOLIO mappings, and the matters that exercise each.
Browse skills20 simulated matters
Ten practice shapes, each in the fictional State of Meridian and again in a real jurisdiction. Full packets, case files, rubrics, and interviews.
Open the libraryFirm dashboard
Ellingboe & Ravndal LLP — the two-lawyer practicum firm. Fees, realization, AR aging, trust accounting, and budget, charted and taught.
Open the ledger PRACTICEMy practice record
Recognize practice and revision in a record kept on your device.
View my practice recordWeekly hours log
Compare time worked with time you could bill, and record your contribution to each deliverable. Records remain in this browser until you export them.
Record weekly hoursDeliverable templates
The six recurring course handouts — time sheet, engagement letter, interview plan, settlement plan, portfolio, and reflective report — each presented as a Planning Guide and Checklist with assessment and feedback notes. Print-ready.
Open the templatesGetting started at your school
Meet the people who run the practicum, shape it around your school, and find free matters and templates to begin.
People first; technology as the tool
Every exercise here ships with a machine-readable rubric and a revise-and-repeat loop. Faculty coach students through live work with people. Technology supplies more practice repetitions under faculty supervision. Technology gives the first-pass assessment and feedback, at any hour. The simulated client interviews, rubric feedback, and firm dashboard below support that practice.