JD-Next is proven to increase law school GPA by .20 points!*
The JD-Next course is designed to prepare you for the high-stakes test at the end of the course, which can be used for your law school applications ...
But it's not just about the test - it's designed to improve your 1L grade while showing you what law school is like. You will be prepared and ready from day one of class!
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How is JD-Next different?
8 Week Course & Admissions Test
Proven .2
GPA Boost
Practice, Prepare & Prove Your 1L Readiness
Only $299 Total for
Course + Test
JD-Next is an 8-week, self-paced and fully online course. Our program is scientifically proven to improve your law school GPA by .20!
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Each week, you'll get familiar with actual Contract Law cases you'll encounter during the first year of law school (1L). Each module is designed to be manageable, requiring only about one hour per day. Modules include interactive lessons, quizzes, and assignments with feedback provided by your dedicated course facilitator to
help improve your skills throughout the course.
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We will also help prepare you to read through complex legal concepts and analyze cases so you’re ready to participate in your 1L classes confidently. Your $299 investment includes the high-stakes test, score reports to law schools, and all course materials - there are no additional fees!
From our course you will learn how to:
Read and brief cases in the common law system
Extract the key points of law
Model legal writing style
Understand essential legal facts and patterns
plus have access to
Legal terms glossary
Video explanations from experts in the field
Practice problems to prepare for your test
Topic Areas Covered
Expectation Damages*
Calculate expectation damages, considering the duty to mitigate.
Legal Test for Consideration*
Apply the legal test for consideration, including both elements of legal value and bargained-for-exchange
Gratuitous Promise*
Distinguish between a gratuitous promise and a contract supported by consideration. Apply the rule for inadequacy of consideration and policy goals centered around free market principles. Identify sham or nominal consideration and the legal implications of each.
Past Consideration*
Identify the issue of past consideration and apply the rule that past consideration cannot serve as consideration to support a contract. Identify the elements of promissory estoppel.
Insufficient Illusory Promise*
Identify an illusory promise as insufficient to support a contract. Determine whether a court would infer an implied reasonable efforts standard to a given scenario. Apply the rule for illusory promises to determine when or how reasonable efforts might be inferred.
Objective Theory*
Apply the objective theory of contracts to a given scenario, particularly where subjective intent and objective conduct diverge. Spot the issue of mutual mistake, identifying where a mutual mistake may have occurred and the legal consequences.
Bargaining and Unilateral Offer*
Distinguish between an invitation to bargain and a unilateral offer. Apply the rule that a modification cannot be made to a unilateral offer once the offeree has accepted via performance.
Offeree Acceptance*
Identify the issue of whether an offeree has accepted an offer via the manner specified by the offeror.
Promissory Estoppel*
Apply the legal test of promissory estoppel to a fact pattern, including the elements of whether the promisor would reasonably expect the promisee to rely, and whether the promisee did in fact rely on the promise to his or her detriment.
Dispositive Facts
Identify legally determinative facts, distinguishing them from narrative or irrelevant facts.
Conclusion (Holding)
Describe the holding or conclusion as in a FIRAC case brief. Select the best version of a holding, identifying the rule applied in the case and the legally relevant facts.
Issue
Recall the elements of a strong issue statement and use those criteria to select the best issue statement for a given case or fact pattern.
Procedure Posture
Identify facts related to the procedural history of a case or fact pattern. Identify the court issuing the opinion, which party sought relief, what motion was at issue, and the disposition of the lower court.
Rules
Identify and articulate the rule applied in a given case or fact pattern. Select the best version of the rule, identifying what was essential to the rule, what elements it may have contained, and what reasoning the court may have used to support the selection or application of the rule. Distinguish between reasoning relevant and irrelevant for supporting the rule.
FIRAC
Identify and distinguish between the elements of a FIRAC case brief given multiple elements of a FIRAC brief, including narrative facts, determinative facts, issue statements, rule statements, analysis, application, and the holding.
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- Our goal is to help you get into law school and give you the tools you need to succeed once you’re there. -
Questions About the Course?
Aspen Publishing and JD-Next are committed to your success. For any questions regarding the JD-Next Program, please email jd.next@aspenpublishing.com.