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Message(s)/
Advice of the Moment
(The failure of law schools; when to take LEEWS; much more. . .)
"There is a system for
handling the law school essay exam well. It's the single most important
key to law school success. Its creator is Wentworth Miller, founder
of LEEWS. A friend who made law review discovered that every one of
his fellow editors had taken LEEWS in their first semester of law school,
as had he. Other than this book, LEEWS is the best thing you could possibly
have going for you."
—PLANET LAW SCHOOL (1998), pp. 83,
89.
(Read our review of this provocative book and the full text of its description of LEEWS, and a review of PLANET LAW SCHOOL II.)
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"It's not often that advice is easy--especially advice on a subject as endlessly distressing as law exams. Here it is easy. (The advice, anyway.) The answer? In a word -- LEEWS. ... (p. 302)
IN CASE I'VE NOT BEATEN THIS SUFFICIENTLY TO THE GROUND, HERE'S HOW TO ACE YOUR LAW EXAMS, AND, AHEM, TO PROVE THAT YOU'VE GOTTEN GOOD (...AND, AHEM, AHEM, TO GET THE GOLD) -- LEEWS." (p. 304)
— LAW SCHOOL -- GETTING IN, GETTING GOOD, GETTING THE GOLD (2008)
Introduction
Again, however you happened to come to our website -- online search,
blog, chatroom reference, Planet Law School, Getting the Gold, flyer
at school, friend, lawyer, judge, classmate, parent who took LEEWS (!!),
perhaps a law professor -- welcome! And please know this. Everything you
read here is true. The simple fact is that we cannot adequately convey in
words what a difference our program makes for law students (and law grads
preparing for the bar).
The heart of the matter is that even when we started out, nearly 30 years
ago, we succeeded where law schools fail (all of them, including Harvard!)
-- turning an academically oriented law student into a reasonable facsimile
of a practical, goal-focused lawyer. As least so far as preparing for and
taking law school exams is concerned.
The most obvious difference between a LEEWS grad and other law students,
beyond grades, focus, and a general sense of ease in law school, is that
the former briefs cases in 2-4 lines, versus 1/2 page and more for everyone
else, while understanding it far better (the key to 2-4 lines!), and takes
1/2 page of notes per class hour versus 2-4. Yes, that means put away
laptops in class!
We've only gotten better, as we have obsessively polished and refined
our sole product over these many years -- a system of preparation and exam
writing that gives anyone capable of being admitted to law school a chance
at rare law school "A" grades. And that in the process makes law school
the interesting and intellectually stimulating experience it can be,
but isn't for the great majority of law students (even at Yale, LEEWS founder/instructor
Wentworth Miller's alma mater).
A key ingredient of your success will be the skepticism that prevents
more than a fraction of law students in any given school from making the
small investment necessary to do LEEWS. (Less than the cost of a new
case book!). They will remain smart, diligent, but clueless law students.
They will not be able to compete with someone who has the analytic mindset
of a lawyer (very key!), and who marches toward the only thing in law school
that matters -- final exams! -- with a day-to-day, week-to-week system of
preparation, geared toward implementing a proven effective system of taking
charge of ANY hypothetical-type law school exam.
There is a lot here. The problem of successfully handling
law school and especially preparing for and taking all-important law
school exams is complex. The aids/advice competing for your attention
are many, including what law schools and law professors offer.
Although one authoritative book after another (see quotes above and in
the right margin), and lawyers, law students, and law professors who
have attended point to LEEWS as The Answer to the problem of law
school, and especially challenging and all-important law school exams,
skeptical and penny wise/pound foolish law students continue to equivocate
and question and stall when it comes to doing LEEWS.
(Seriously. Should you doubt, for a moment, the advisability of a program
with a near three decade track record of success, that costs less than a
new law text book[!!], and that can and likely will make the difference between
competing for rare A's, and thereby a choice job in a tightening job market,
and the mediocrity that awaits nearly 90 percent of law students, even in
an era of grade inflation?)
Moreover, both the audio and live programs offer a free trial?! (Click
Guarantees.)
It is not easy to convey the depth and effectiveness of our instruction,
the uniqueness of our insights, and how very different and how much
more effective LEEWS is compared with ALL other study aids. Read
the attested remarks from students at your school. Read the Message(s)
of the Moment. (If it is April or late November, see especially the
advice on whether taking LEEWS late in the term can make a difference.
Emphatically, "Yes!") Read the Basic Truths.
Knowing full well that the transformative instruction and experience that is LEEWS cannot be grasped until it is experienced, [Truly. No second or third year law student, and no law professor who has not done LEEWS, can fully fathom what the instruction Wentworth Miller, LEEWS founder/instructor, has polished for over 30 years entails, and the difference it can and will make!], we nevertheless want to provide as much information about what we offer as possible. We also want to provide you with useful free information and advice. Here's the first and perhaps most important thing you should know:
Sure, law school requires hard work. However, . . . law school need not be mysterious, confusing, intimidating. It should and can be stimulating intellectually, even fun. Certainly, success in law school is within the reach of any person of reasonable intelligence. As Mr. Miller likes to say to classes, "If you can find your way to this program in a room in a hotel in this city/[suburb], you're capable of 'lawyerlike analysis'" — the key to impressing professors and doing well on law exams. What is necessary is to work hard, but also smart, …to acquire the necessary new and unfamiliar skills needed as soon as possible.
!! Want a thumbnail sketch of how in depth and comprehensive LEEWS instruction is? Click Regis/Order/Cost to view the track headings on the back cover of our audio CD program. You'll have to peer closely; but you'll understand why an entire day is required to grasp our system and why it's worth it. You'll save so much more than a day when you avoid the wasted motion most law students engage in.
Do Study Aids Make A Difference?
Perhaps you're wondering whether any of the many study aids for law students can make a difference. The simple answer is that for the most part others don't (not any more than the "IRAC"-based standard advice you'll get from professors), but LEEWS does – dramatically so.
We at LEEWS are gratified at the recognition of our effectiveness by such reputable sources as Planet Law School, Getting the Gold, and The Princeton Review (see quote on right). However, much more than either of these sources, word-of-mouth from satisfied former students has long been our best advertising. It continues to be. Former students are law professors, judges, lawyers, upperclassmen. Some are parents of law students (!!). Often loathe to share the LEEWS advantage with classmates, they tell friends and underclassmen, "If you do nothing else, do LEEWS!" It is not uncommon for former students, now lawyers, to pay for their interns to attend LEEWS.
Simple. It is difficult to excel in law school -- to get A's. We make A's attainable, even probable (because you'll write far better exams than clueless classmates). Our cost is less than a new textbook (!!). B's are guaranteed. You have a free trial of either the one-day live program or the equally effective audio CD program.
So What Sets LEEWS Apart?
What makes LEEWS uniquely effective? Why spend valuable time and very little money (no more than you would spend on a new textbook!) on LEEWS, as opposed to simply studying hard (or harder) and/or employing some other law study aid?
Quite simply, Wentworth Miller -- attorney, Yale Law graduate ('77), Rhodes scholar -- has developed and polished for nearly 30 years a comprehensive system of day-to-day, week-to-week preparation and exam taking, applicable to any essay-type exam in any legal subject, that is remarkably effective. The scheme is sophisticated overall ("ingenious," most say), yet readily comprehensible in its individual facets.
The program of instruction encompasses all aspects of the law exam process – pulling apart complex essay fact patterns (known as "hypos," short for "hypothetical") to identify "issues" -- performing "lawyerlike analysis" -- concise presentation of analysis -- use of "hornbooks" and commercial outlines -- introducing "policy" aspects to analysis -- abbreviated (2-4 line) exam-focused briefing and (20-50 page) course outlining -- etc. –, and is more in depth, more insightful, and goes far beyond the standard, rather obvious and incomplete "IRAC"-centered advice offered by ALL others, including law professors (e.g., "know the law;" "read the facts [of hypos] carefully," "argue both sides of issues" [assuming you can find issues and know how to fashion lawyerly arguments], "follow IRAC," etc.). As a consequence, our students enjoy a significant advantage over typically clueless classmates. Indeed, virtually all of our students (over 98 percent!) improve exam performance.
To cite two examples of LEEWS’ effectiveness, it is no accident that in 2000-2001 40 percent of members of law review (top ten percent) at Washington University School of Law (including the editor-in-chief) and 25 percent of members of law review at Duke took LEEWS as 1Ls.
We wish you could just take our word for it -- or the word of the many, many former students whose remarks and letters are reproduced (with names!) throughout this website. Beyond (used) textbooks, (used) commercial outlines, and sometimes a treatise or "hornbook" (use the library copy!), LEEWS is all you need. You don't need resources that purport to teach or review substantive law. (You'll be able to learn the law from your casebook and [commercial] outline.) You don't need the many study aids recommended in Planet Law School. You especially don't need the expensive, hand-holding, one and two-week simulated law school programs. They offer nothing new. Our students who have taken them typically lament the waste of money.
You may not even need LEEWS. We estimate that 5-7 percent of law students have a knack for handling law essay exams. Problem is, other than the circumstance that science types tend to do better on law exams than literary types (so much for the myth that being a "good writer" is key), that 5-7 percent can't be predicted by college gpa, LSAT score, library hours, etc. Moreover, these 5-7 percent would prepare far more efficiently and do even better with LEEWS.
If you are comparing law school study aids, just consider the most obvious difference – only LEEWS guarantees results. Only LEEWS offers a free trial of both its products – the one-day live program, and the equally effective audio version. (Click Guarantees.)
The reason is that no other program or aid offers much beyond "IRAC" and the standard advice presented free at this website. (Click Standard Advice – Free) Thus, they don’t impart much of an advantage. By the end of first term most 1Ls know what they instruct.
Click How LEEWS is Different for comparisons between LEEWS and exam writing/study instruction offered by professors and student groups, LEEWS vs. Fleming’s, LEEWS vs. Getting to Maybe, LEEWS vs. the free, 45 minute Bar-Bri-sponsored session with professor Charles Whitebread, LEEWS vs. prelaw, simulated law school programs (e.g., Law Preview, Bar-Bri/NILE), etc.]
Again, there is a lot at this website. That's because there is a lot to know about us, law school exams, law school itself. Unless there is something you want to go to immediately, you might want to begin with Law School Basic Truths and Message(s)/Advice of the Moment. (Click Message(s)/Advice of the Moment. Click Basic Truths.)
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Reactions to
LEEWS…
LEEWS takes the old IRAC approach and vastly improves on it. LEEWS is a Godsend ...It is truly disgraceful that a LEEWS-type program is not part-and-parcel of every law school's pedagogy.
— PLANET LAW SCHOOL II (2003), pp. 164, 165
There are lots of commercial programs and aids designed to assist law students in studying for and writing exams, but—trust us—Wentworth Miller's ["LEEWS"] is the best of the bunch. [LEEWS] is the secret behind the success of more law review members than you can shake a stick at. You really should check it out.
— THE PRINCETON REVIEW 2001 Guide to Law Schools, pp. 80, 83
