Self-Prep Program (SPP)

The Self-Prep Program (SPP) is based on the very successful LawBoost Program (LBP), which is the live online law school preparatory course.  Although students are encouraged to participate in the LBP so that they get the opportunity to work with and learn from other entering law students, the SPP is available because the LBP’s live online class schedule is not convenient for everyone.

The only difference between the LBP and SPP is that the LBP is a live professor-led online course conducted in a chat room, while in the SPP students are provided with daily transcripts from the live course to review at their leisure.  Despite this difference, SPP students are expected to be as prepared as the LBP students to work through the daily transcripts’ questions and the course assignments.  Like the LBP, once the SPP begins there is no time for students to catch up if they are not prepared when the course begins.  For this reason, SPP students are expected to read the entire course text and to perform the first assignment of writing case briefs for Montana v. Pierce and Montana v. Shannon before they receive the first class’s transcript.

Daily Transcript & Daily Assignments
Each weekday, SPP students are emailed that day’s class transcript by 9 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. MDT, 11 a.m. CDT, 12 p.m. EDT).  The SPP’s assignment schedule is below.

Suggestions for Reading the Daily Transcripts
The first time you read the transcript try to answer the questions that are provided in the transcript just as if you were in the live class.  For instance, if the transcript asks the class to provide a case’s holding, on a separate piece of paper or on your computer, you should write out what you think the case’s holding is before you go any further in the transcript.  Also, each exercise you are asked to do, or each question you are asked to answer, is a building block for things you will do later in the course.  For this reason it is important to do things in the order they are provided in the transcript.

After reading through the transcript at least twice, if you have any questions please feel free to email Michael Santana at michael.santana@lawboost.com, or call him at 360 480-4722.