The Bench: Legal Reasoning

Hear the case. Make the ruling. Step onto the bench. Hear a short fictional case, rule on it out loud in your own words, and get a rubric-graded scorecard grounded in real, verified precedent. THE 1L SIX Civil Procedure · Constitutional Law · Contracts · Criminal Law · Property · Torts. Pick an area, pick a doctrine, and every case arrives with its own court-sketch exhibit, drawn from the case file. HOW IT WORKS: ONE SITTING OF THE COURT 1. Hear the case. A narrated, illustrated case file: two sides, one dispute, under a minute to absorb. 2. Rule out loud. Argue it like a judge from the bench: your ruling, your reasons, the authority you rely on, spoken in your own words. 3. Get your scorecard. Six categories (issue spotting, rule accuracy, precedent alignment, reasoning, clarity, citation) with feedback quote-traced to what you actually said, and a spoken summary you can play back. THE…