Law school,
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No matter how you feel about law school, we'll get you ready.Without the stress. Without the fear.Because this is not your grandfather's legal education...It's —

Uncommon results require uncommon methods.

Don’t do what other students do. Traditional “1L prep” courses waste your time and fail to teach you any new skills. Coach Blackstone’s Law School Training Camp is different.

Our two-week training camp is structured to prepare you for the entire road ahead. You’ll be ready not only for your first class, your first exam, and your first job interview—you’ll be ready for what comes next.

You can expect to:

Day 1: Study yourself.

Socrates wrote, “To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.” Sure, he wasn’t talking about law school, but he was smart and hosted some of the original toga parties. So, the Training Camp begins here, too. We guide each student through a self-assessment to consider their strengths and weakness. We also ask students, on Day 1, to think deeply about their personal goals and career aspirations—and commit these goals to paper. After all, if you don’t know where you’re going, you might end up somewhere else.

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Days 2-3: Understand the challenges ahead.

Coach B and J.R.R. Tolkien both went to Oxford, where apparently there were dragons because Coach B likes to tell folks that “you can’t leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near one.” No American law school has dragons, but there are other tough challenges to consider: 1L classes, first year exams, OCI and job interviews, the fight for clerkships, the bar exam—and that’s just the first three years. On Day 2 and 3 of Training Camp, we’ll help you think about these challenges differently. We’ll also force you to look ahead to the obstacles you’ll face even after you’ve graduated and secured your first job. (Lawyering doesn’t get easier.)

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Days 4-9: Cultivate essential skills.

Abe Lincoln once said, “give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe,” which seems both like a ridiculous proposal (Why does the tree need to be chopped down this afternoon?) and an inefficient response (How much sharper can you get that rusty old thing after hour two?). Logic aside, the point seems to be that it’s helpful to focus on the tools you use to approach a problem. We agree. That’s why the longest module of Camp—from Days 4 to 9—is devoted to the skills that are critical to your success as a lawyer: reading, listening, writing, managing time, collaborating with others, networking, and caring for yourself.

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Days 10-11: Create your plan.

By Day 10 of Training Camp, you’ll know more about yourself, the challenges ahead, and the skills you need to confront them. But “to achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.” At least, that’s Leonard Bernstein’s advice. Since he’s got a lifetime Grammy and created West Side Story, we tend to trust him. Fortunately, step two is easy: you’ll never have enough time in law school. So we’ll spend two days focused on the other step—creating a detailed plan for world domination or, at least, rocking law school.

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Day 12: Embrace obstacles.

Taylor Swift isn’t a lawyer, which is good because if she and lawyer-hopeful Kim Kardashian were opposing counsel, that’d be awkward. But we’re convinced she could’ve been a legend of the bar. “Just because you made a good plan,” she’s said, “doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.” And that’s what we’ll explore on Day 12 of Training Camp—learning to embrace the obstacles and use them to propel your career (and yourself) forward.

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Day 13: Serve others.

Muhammed Ali is a legend because he left a bigger mark on the world than his jab left above Joe Frazier's right eye. So, when he said that "service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth," he meant it, living by those words himself. Lawyering can sometimes resemble boxing, but it always requires service—to your clients, to the bar, to your community. On Day 13, we'll examine what it means to be in a service industry where clients matter, and where the ability to "change the world" isn't hyperbole.

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Day 14: Start today.

We close the Training Camp back where we began—following the advice of a Greek philosopher. This time it's Plato, who said that "the beginning is the most important part of any work." Because it's time for you to begin to work, we're going to give you a head start. On Day 14, we'll drill down on each step you need to take to implement what you’ve learned, so you can progress quickly towards the goals you set when you showed up for Camp two weeks earlier.