Engineers Clinic
BEGINNER LAW & LEGAL STUDIES INTERNSHIP

Foundational Legal Research & Writing

Foundational Legal Research & Writing is a Beginner internship track focused on Foundational skills, syntax, basic tools, and core industry workflows.

2 Months
Beginner

Choose portfolio projects from your selected level

Beginner internship certificate and mentor-guided learning

Real-world assignments in Bluebook & Citation Syntax (Regex Standards)

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Outcomes

What this program helps you build by the end

Outcome-focused highlights designed to make the value of the program easy to understand at a glance.

45 Days

Beginner tier timeline

Outcome

3 Portfolio Projects Required

Project requirement for this tier

Outcome

Law & Legal Studies

Career domain

Outcome
Curriculum

Build practical skills through structured module work

Every module is sequenced to help learners move from guided basics to stronger, portfolio-worthy execution.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Bluebook v. ALWD Format Checker (Regex) in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Bluebook v. ALWD Format Checker (Regex) into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing a Regular Expression that checks a citation string and fails it if the volume, reporter, or page number sequence violates strict Bluebook formatting

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Bluebook v. ALWD Format Checker (Regex) against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Case Name Abbreviation Sanitizer in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Case Name Abbreviation Sanitizer into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing a script that scans case names and automatically converts words like "Company" to "Co." and "Incorporated" to "Inc." per Bluebook Rule 10.2

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Case Name Abbreviation Sanitizer against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Pinpoint Citation (Pincite) Logic Validator in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Pinpoint Citation (Pincite) Logic Validator into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Auditing a citation string to ensure the specific page number (pincite) mathematically falls within the valid page range of the overall court opinion

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Pinpoint Citation (Pincite) Logic Validator against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Statutory Citation Formatter (U.S.C. Syntax) in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Statutory Citation Formatter (U.S.C. Syntax) into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing a script to convert a messy user input like "Title 17 section 107" into the strict federal format 17 U.S.C. § 107

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Statutory Citation Formatter (U.S.C. Syntax) against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for "Id." and "Supra" Sequence Tracker in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break "Id." and "Supra" Sequence Tracker into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Parsing an array of footnotes; if Footnote 4 cites the exact same source as Footnote 3, the script automatically replaces the text with Id.

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test "Id." and "Supra" Sequence Tracker against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Missing Jurisdiction/Year Flag in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Missing Jurisdiction/Year Flag into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Scanning a citation's trailing parentheses (S.D.N.Y. 2022) and failing the input if either the court identifier or the 4-digit year is missing

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Missing Jurisdiction/Year Flag against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Citation Hyperlink Appender in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Citation Hyperlink Appender into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing logic that takes a standard Bluebook citation string and programmatically builds the exact URL parameter needed to fetch the case from a mock CourtListener API

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Citation Hyperlink Appender against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for LexisNexis Proximity Operator Math (/s, /p, /n) in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break LexisNexis Proximity Operator Math (/s, /p, /n) into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing logic that evaluates a document to see if the word "Breach" appears strictly within 15 words (/15) of the word "Contract"

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test LexisNexis Proximity Operator Math (/s, /p, /n) against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Westlaw AND NOT Exclusion Filter in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Westlaw AND NOT Exclusion Filter into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing a Boolean string that searches for "Apple" but explicitly excludes any document containing "fruit", "orchard", or "farm" to find corporate IP cases

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Westlaw AND NOT Exclusion Filter against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Root Expander (!) Permutation Generator in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Root Expander (!) Permutation Generator into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing a script that takes the root negligen! and outputs the required regex to capture "negligent", "negligence", and "negligently"

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Root Expander (!) Permutation Generator against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Jurisdiction-Bounded Search Logic in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Jurisdiction-Bounded Search Logic into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Structuring an API search payload that restricts query results strictly to cases decided in the "Second Circuit Court of Appeals"

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Jurisdiction-Bounded Search Logic against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Date-Restricted Query Formatter in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Date-Restricted Query Formatter into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing the database logic to filter a massive case payload, returning only precedent decided > 2010-01-01 AND < 2020-12-31

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Date-Restricted Query Formatter against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Headnote / Digest Keyword Sorter in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Headnote / Digest Keyword Sorter into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Parsing a JSON export of a legal case and extracting only the "Headnotes" (summaries) that contain the keyword "Summary Judgment"

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Headnote / Digest Keyword Sorter against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Over-Broad Search Warning Trigger in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Over-Broad Search Warning Trigger into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing a script that tests a Boolean search string; if the mock query returns >10,000 cases, the script forces the user to add an additional AND limiting factor

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Over-Broad Search Warning Trigger against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for IRAC JSON Schema Validator in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break IRAC JSON Schema Validator into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Parsing a submitted legal argument and failing it if it does not contain exactly four nested keys: Issue, Rule, Application, and Conclusion

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test IRAC JSON Schema Validator against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Issue Statement Syntax Enforcer in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Issue Statement Syntax Enforcer into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing logic that scans the "Issue" field of the JSON payload and automatically fails it if it does not end with a question mark ? or start with "Whether"

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Issue Statement Syntax Enforcer against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Rule Sourcing Cross-Reference in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Rule Sourcing Cross-Reference into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

A logic check that scans the "Rule" section and triggers an error if there is not at least one valid Bluebook citation attached to the legal claim

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Rule Sourcing Cross-Reference against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Element / Factor Test Array Builder in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Element / Factor Test Array Builder into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Taking a legal rule (e.g., "Battery requires

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Element / Factor Test Array Builder against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Holding vs. Dicta Classifier in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Holding vs. Dicta Classifier into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Parsing a JSON case brief and checking a Boolean flag to ensure the student correctly identified the Court's final binding rule vs. non-binding commentary

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Holding vs. Dicta Classifier against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Application/Fact-Matching Variable Linker in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Application/Fact-Matching Variable Linker into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing a script that requires every "Element" defined in the Rule section to have a corresponding "Fact" linked in the Application section

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Application/Fact-Matching Variable Linker against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Conclusion Binary Output Constraint in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Conclusion Binary Output Constraint into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Restricting the "Conclusion" field of a legal memo payload to a strict boolean TRUE (Client wins) or FALSE (Client loses) before allowing any text explanation

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Conclusion Binary Output Constraint against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Statute of Limitations (SOL) Expiration Calculator in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Statute of Limitations (SOL) Expiration Calculator into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Given a tort injury date of 2024-03-15 and a 2-year SOL, calculating the exact YYYY-MM-DD deadline to file the lawsuit

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Statute of Limitations (SOL) Expiration Calculator against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for "Shall" vs. "May" Imperative Flagging in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break "Shall" vs. "May" Imperative Flagging into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing a Regex script that scans a drafted corporate policy and flags the word "may" (optional) when the legal statute strictly requires "shall" (mandatory

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test "Shall" vs. "May" Imperative Flagging against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for FRCP (Federal Rules) Response Timer in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break FRCP (Federal Rules) Response Timer into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Calculating the exact date an Answer is due in Federal Court by adding exactly 21 days to the "Service of Process" timestamp

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test FRCP (Federal Rules) Response Timer against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Statutory Age of Majority Gatekeeper in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Statutory Age of Majority Gatekeeper into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Date-math logic: Checking a user's birthdate against a contract signature date to ensure they were exactly 18.0 years old at the moment of execution

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Statutory Age of Majority Gatekeeper against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for "And/Or" Logic Evaluator (Conjunctive vs. Disjunctive) in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break "And/Or" Logic Evaluator (Conjunctive vs. Disjunctive) into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing a script that tests a legal condition: failing an application if the statute says requirements A AND B must be met, but the user only has A

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test "And/Or" Logic Evaluator (Conjunctive vs. Disjunctive) against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Legislative History Cross-Reference in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Legislative History Cross-Reference into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Parsing a bill number (e.g., H.R. 1234) and formatting the exact URL structure to pull the Congressional Record vote history via API

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Legislative History Cross-Reference against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Court Hierarchy Level Sorter in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Court Hierarchy Level Sorter into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Parsing a JSON database of 50 cases and automatically sorting them into three strict arrays: Supreme Court, Appellate Court, and Trial Court

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Court Hierarchy Level Sorter against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Party Role Reversal Tracker in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Party Role Reversal Tracker into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

A logic script that maps the original "Defendant" at the trial level to their new title as "Appellant/Petitioner" at the appellate level

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Party Role Reversal Tracker against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Judge Dissent/Concurrence Split Calculator in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Judge Dissent/Concurrence Split Calculator into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Parsing the metadata of a Supreme Court case to mathematically calculate the vote split (e.g., 5-4) based on the array of joining Justices

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Judge Dissent/Concurrence Split Calculator against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Appellate Disposition Extractor in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Appellate Disposition Extractor into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Using keyword Regex to scan the final paragraph of a 50-page opinion to extract the strict final ruling: Affirmed, Reversed, or Remanded

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Appellate Disposition Extractor against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Filing Fee / Jurisdictional Minimum Math in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Filing Fee / Jurisdictional Minimum Math into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing the logic: IF damages sought are < $75,000, THEN reject Federal Diversity Jurisdiction filing and route to State Court

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Filing Fee / Jurisdictional Minimum Math against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Amicus Brief Counter in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Amicus Brief Counter into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Parsing a Supreme Court docket XML file and counting exactly how many "Amicus Curiae" (Friend of the Court) briefs were filed for the Petitioner vs. the Respondent

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Amicus Brief Counter against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Case Weight / Page Length Estimator in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Case Weight / Page Length Estimator into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Extracting the word count of a PDF opinion and dividing it by 250 words-per-page to estimate the billing hours required for a junior associate to read it

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Case Weight / Page Length Estimator against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Overruled / Red Flag Alert Logic in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Overruled / Red Flag Alert Logic into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing webhook logic: IF the drafted memo cites Roe v. Wade OR Chevron v. NRDC, THEN instantly trigger a "Negative Treatment" red flag warning

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Overruled / Red Flag Alert Logic against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for "Distinguished By" Citation Sorter in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break "Distinguished By" Citation Sorter into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Parsing a Shepard’s/KeyCite report and extracting only the cases that "distinguished" themselves from the precedent based on differing facts

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test "Distinguished By" Citation Sorter against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Circuit Split Detector in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Circuit Split Detector into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Comparing a JSON array of rulings: If the 2nd Circuit ruled TRUE on an issue and the 9th Circuit ruled FALSE, outputting a "Circuit Split Exists" warning

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Circuit Split Detector against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Unpublished Opinion Exclusion Rule in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Unpublished Opinion Exclusion Rule into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing a script that scans a brief's Table of Authorities and flags any citation containing "Fed. Appx." (unpublished), which are often forbidden to be cited as precedent

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Unpublished Opinion Exclusion Rule against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Shepard’s Signal JSON Payload Generator in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Shepard’s Signal JSON Payload Generator into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Formatting a legal metadata response: Assigning a Red Stop Sign array for overturned cases and a Yellow Triangle array for criticized cases

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Shepard’s Signal JSON Payload Generator against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Citation Frequency Counter (Precedent Depth) in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Citation Frequency Counter (Precedent Depth) into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing a script that counts how many times a specific case is cited across a database, ranking it as a "Seminal Case" if citations > 1,000

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Citation Frequency Counter (Precedent Depth) against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Good Law Boolean Verifier in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Good Law Boolean Verifier into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

A final validation script that takes a Master List of 20 citations and cross-references them via mock API, returning a TRUE (Good Law) or FALSE (Bad Law) for every single entry

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Good Law Boolean Verifier against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Table of Authorities (TOA) Auto-Generator in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Table of Authorities (TOA) Auto-Generator into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing a script that extracts every Bluebook citation from a text document, alphabetizes them, and outputs a clean TOA list with page references

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Table of Authorities (TOA) Auto-Generator against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Pleading Caption Block Formatter in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Pleading Caption Block Formatter into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Taking CRM inputs (Plaintiff, Defendant, Court Name, Case Number) and formatting them into the exact fixed-width ASCII block required for a court heading

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Pleading Caption Block Formatter against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Legal Brief Heading Hierarchy Enforcer in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Legal Brief Heading Hierarchy Enforcer into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Scanning a Markdown legal memo to ensure it strictly follows standard formatting: I., A., 1., a.

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Legal Brief Heading Hierarchy Enforcer against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Bates Numbering Sequencer in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Bates Numbering Sequencer into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing a loop script that generates sequential identification numbers (e.g., PLTF-0001 to PLTF-0500) to be stamped onto a batch of electronic discovery PDFs

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Bates Numbering Sequencer against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Redaction Text Length Masking in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Redaction Text Length Masking into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Writing a privacy script that replaces a sensitive 10-letter word with exactly 10 black block characters ██████████ so the physical layout of the paragraph doesn't shift

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Redaction Text Length Masking against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Word Count Certification Auditor in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Word Count Certification Auditor into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

A script that counts the words in an Appellate Brief, triggering a failure if it exceeds the strict Federal limit of 13,000 words

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Word Count Certification Auditor against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for E-Filing PDF/A Format Checker in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break E-Filing PDF/A Format Checker into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

Checking the metadata of an exported legal brief to ensure it is saved in the strict PDF/A archival format, and that all fonts are fully embedded as required by the courts

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test E-Filing PDF/A Format Checker against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Define Project Brief

Write the objective, scope, inputs, constraints, and acceptance criteria for Capstone: Automated Legal Research Pipeline in Foundational Legal Research & Writing.

Applied Task

Submission

Brief document with objective, scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.

AI Review Focus

Checks clarity, scope, realism, and alignment with the selected course topic.

Plan Workflow

Break Capstone: Automated Legal Research Pipeline into milestones, required tools, source data, validation rules, and final output format.

Applied Task

Submission

Milestone checklist with tools, data requirements, and review plan.

AI Review Focus

Checks sequencing, tool fit, completeness, and execution readiness.

Build Core Output

A master Make.com scenario: The student submits a JSON IRAC payload. The script checks the citations for Bluebook syntax, pings a mock Shepard's API to ensure the law is still valid, and generates a formatted Table of Authorities

Applied Task

Submission

Project file, repository, design link, spreadsheet, report, or implementation artifact.

AI Review Focus

Checks whether the artifact is complete, structured, practical, and reviewable.

Document and Review

Explain key decisions, test Capstone: Automated Legal Research Pipeline against the brief, and record fixes or limitations.

Applied Task

Submission

README, decision log, quality checklist, screenshots, or demo notes.

AI Review Focus

Checks reasoning quality, evidence of review, and portfolio presentation readiness.

Why Choose This Course

Strong reasons learners choose this track over passive learning

Clear, high-signal benefits designed to make the decision easier and faster.

Guided Practical Workflow

The track breaks Foundational Legal Research & Writing into clear tasks, checkpoints, and submission expectations.

Career-Relevant Output

You finish with a concrete project artifact that helps show your learning progress.

Structured Internship Path

The program is organized by tier, duration, and portfolio requirements so learners know exactly what to complete.

Social Proof

Real learner signals that build trust before they enroll

Testimonial cards designed to feel credible, clear, and easy to scan.

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Aarav Mehta

Law & Legal Studies Learner

Law & Legal Tech

5.0

The structure helped me understand Foundational Legal Research & Writing through practical tasks and clear checkpoints.

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Nisha Kapoor

College Student

Law & Legal Tech

5.0

I liked that every module ended with something concrete to submit, review, and improve.

FAQs

Clear answers for the final questions learners usually ask

Short, direct answers that remove hesitation without slowing down the decision.

No. The beginner tier starts with foundations and then moves into applied tasks.

Yes. The curriculum is organized around structured assignments, submissions, and reviewable portfolio outputs.

This is a 45 Days Beginner tier track with 3 Portfolio Projects Required.

Final Step

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