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The Classroom Series

Free lesson plans built on the cases in our docket. Each one is a complete class: the run sheet with the words to say, the student handouts ready to print, the discussion script, and the standards it meets. Print them and teach. Nothing to install, no student accounts, and no data collected from anyone in your room.

Why these are free and always will be. Our jury is the public, and a classroom that reads a case carefully is exactly the kind of juror we want. Teachers get a finished lesson; we get people who have read a file before they render a verdict. That trade is the whole business model at this level, so there is no upsell coming.

On request · any topic · about a minuteBrief the ClerkName the legal idea you want taught, your grade level, and how many minutes you have. The Clerk drafts the whole lesson around a fictional case built to argue both ways: run sheet, handouts, discussion, exit ticket.Lesson No. 01 · 45 minutes · Grade 8 through law schoolThe Hot Coffee LessonHalf your room reads the story everyone knows. The other half reads the trial record. Neither half knows the other exists. Then you tally the votes and the gap does the teaching.

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The lessons above are hand built on real cases and read by a human before they publish. For everything else there is the Clerk, which drafts a lesson on any legal idea you name, around a fictional case, in about a minute. If one of those comes out well, send it back to us and we will sharpen it and publish it here with your name on it: [email protected], subject line "Classroom."

For law faculty, the stronger offer is the one no school can run alone: your students draft opposing briefs, and our public jury votes on which brief persuaded them. Real feedback from lay jurors on real advocacy. Same address, same subject line.

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