Praxis
Graduates who have actually practised before day one.
Completes multiple realistic practice matters
Clinic live-client capacity, same faculty
Clause-level feedback on drafting
The problem
The faculty faced a well-known gap: graduates knew doctrine but had never drafted a real contract, managed a matter, run a client interview, or touched the technology firms now expected on day one. Employers were spending their own money re-training new hires on basic practice skills. The school's clinic, its main bridge to real practice, could only serve a small number of students because supervising live matters is labour-intensive, and there was no way to give every student safe, realistic, repeatable practice.
In short
A practice-readiness and clinical education platform for a university law faculty. Students learn by doing on realistic simulated matters with automated, clause-level feedback, so a small faculty can give individualised guidance at scale, and the live clinic runs on a management spine that lets it serve more real clients with the same staff. The aim is graduates who are genuinely practice-ready and a school that is demonstrably better at producing them. The institution is not named here for privacy.
- Every student completes multiple realistic practice matters before graduating
- Clinic live-client capacity roughly doubled with no added faculty
- Instant clause-level feedback on student drafting, no waiting on a professor
How it was built
- 01Learn by doing on simulated matters.A library of simulated matters (a contract negotiation, a disputed lease, an immigration application, a startup incorporation) puts the student in the lawyer's seat to make real decisions, draft real documents, and live with the consequences.
- 02Give feedback at scale.An automated assessment layer reviews student drafting against model standards and returns specific, clause-level feedback instantly, so students iterate without waiting on a professor and faculty time goes to teaching, not marking.
- 03Run the real clinic on a spine.A live-client clinic management system covers intake, conflicts, matter tracking, and supervision sign-off, so faculty can safely oversee far more student-run real matters than manual supervision allowed.
- 04Build technology fluency in.Legal-technology fluency is woven into the curriculum, so students graduate already familiar with the kinds of tools they will use in practice rather than meeting them for the first time on the job.
- 05Show faculty where cohorts struggle.Analytics reveal where a cohort consistently struggles, so faculty can target teaching at the actual skill gaps instead of guessing.
Under the hood
Results
- Every student, not just the few in the clinic, completed multiple realistic practice matters before graduating, arriving materially more practice-ready.
- The clinic's live-client capacity roughly doubled with no additional faculty, expanding access to justice for the community it served.
- Employers reported new hires needed less basic onboarding, and faculty gained cohort-level insight into skill gaps to target teaching.
- The school strengthened its most important product, graduate employability, which feeds rankings, applications, and employer relationships, while sending a generation into the profession already fluent in modern practice.
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