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Our Model


ELEVATE IS BASED ON FOUR PILLARS

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Active Learning Strategies

Retrieval

Self-testing

Spaced repetition

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Interdependent Learning

Learning from fellow students improves academic performance

Gives students a network of students for support and guidance

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Mentorship

Helps alleviate the stress of law school 

and improves student awareness of the different possibilities after law school

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Practical Exercises

Mock exams and

professional exercises

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Elevate Supports Students Throughout 1L
 

Pre-Law 0L modules​

Employment Bootcamp

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SUMMER 2022​

FALL 2022​

WINTER 2022​

SPRING 2023​

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Law School Success Modules

Practitioner Q&As

Lunch and Learn Q&As

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Spring Forward Modules

Practitioner Q&As

Lunch and Learn Q&As

​​Pre-Law 0L modules

  • Legal terms and concepts

  • Reading and briefing cases

  • Optimal study strategies in law school

  • Outlining

  • Introduction to law school exams

 

Fall Law School Success Modules

  • All modules are taught in cohorts of 5 students each, allowing each student to receive individual attention   

  • Our system for taking law school exams efficiently and effectively

  • Legal research and writing

  • Six 30-minute mock exams in which we give students the facts and the law so they can just focus on developing their skills in legal analysis and writing under exam conditions

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Practitioner Q&As

  • Students have the opportunity to learn from legal professionals, such as:

    • Geoff Kahn (former head of litigation at Ballard Spahr LLP)

    • Mike Kunz (Managing Director, RPN Executive Search)

    • Christina Kaba (Chief Legal Counsel, DuPont Biomaterials)

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Lunch and Learn Q&As

  • A regular forum where a top law student and law professor answer students' questions

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Winter Employment Bootcamp 

  • Types of legal internships

  • Applying for legal internships

  • Using social media and alumni networks

  • Resumes, cover letters, writing samples, interviewing

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Spring Forward Modules

  • Advanced legal analysis

  • Advanced legal writing

  • Six practical exercises alternating between short mock exams (to strengthen the exam skills acquired in the fall) and short professional assignments (email, memo, introduction to brief)


Core Components Emphasized All Year 

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