Providing Assistance

American Institute of Law  provides students tools to ensure a consistent and integrated approach in the learning environment. All faculty members are licensed attorneys. AIL’s faculty coach students in developing and applying the legal principles; to successfully develop and implement their academic plans, improve specific weaknesses in study habits, comprehension or test taking.

AIL professors are responsible to maintain reasonable office hours and to correspond with students in a timely manner. Supplemental archived lectures pertaining to basic law school skills are available during the entire first-year of study. These will include topics such as, the American legal system, the role of judges as law makers, common law vs. civil law, fact vs. law in case appeals and legal vocabulary.

The initial practical application classes will focus on strategies for success. These will include topics such as, time management, case briefing, how to create a class outline, how to form and maintain a successful study group and, exam taking strategies and techniques.

Essay Workshops and Multiple-Choice Workshops

Twenty six ESSAY WORKSHOPS Sessions and twenty eight MULTIPLE-CHOICE WORKSHOP Sessions throughout the first year. Essay workshops and multiple-choice workshops are also viewable live and are archived and are fully downloadable.

FYLSX Review (Law 105)

We assist students in their preparation for the First Year Law Students’ Exam (FYLSX). All of the FYLSX review classes include substantive review, exploring the answers to multistate questions and analyzing essay techniques and approaches. Every week students are required to write answers to two essays distributed each week. The answers the students submit for the questions will be returned with sample answers.

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