Practice Desk
An eight-stage simulated legal matter with a fictional client and a supervisor. It teaches the shape of practice, not the substance of a module.
| Stage | What you do |
|---|---|
| 1 · First Morning | Read the supervisor brief and acknowledge the learning boundary. |
| 2 · Open the Matter | State the client objective and identify the immediate risks. |
| 3 · Meet the Client | Draft your client questions and an attendance note. |
| 4 · Build the File | Select the documents you need and build a working chronology. |
| 5 · Find the Law | Use verified research sources and write a research note. |
| 6 · Prepare the Work | Write an internal case note and a client update. |
| 7 · Ready the Hearing | Set your hearing priorities and name your uncertainties. |
| 8 · Supervisor Review | Reflect, confirm the work is your own judgement, and tag the skills you practised. |
Your work autosaves as you go. A Practice File side panel holds your documents, and you can reset the matter and start again.
Practice Desk is not legal advice, not employment, not qualifying work experience, not accreditation, and not a professional qualification. It exists to teach you the shape of a matter — what a chronology is for, why an attendance note matters, how uncertainty gets escalated to a supervisor.
Stages 3 and 8 in particular give you something concrete to talk about at interview: a client question you chose to ask and why, and an uncertainty you correctly escalated rather than guessing at.
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Research Hub
Finding authority properly — with a research method, verified authorities, and unverified leads clearly separated from them.
Quiz Me
Active recall on demand, over a lecture, an assignment, a module or a week — in text or out loud.
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