A LETTER TO THOSE WHO WANT TO LEARN THE LAW

Before a law student opens their first casebook, they are told that the law is difficult, cryptic, and best left to the experts. The language is archaic. The rules are buried in dense judicial opinions. The exams are structured to reward the few who can decode the system.

This is not by accident.

The legal industry gatekeeps at every level including in law school:

  • Law schools test your ability to spot issues, but never teach you how.

  • Professors give you the rules, but don't teach you how to apply them under time pressure.

  • Casebooks give you dozens of opinions, but rarely distill them into usable rules you can practice with.

  • The bar exam makes you memorize thousands of rules, but doesn't test real-world application.

  • The legal system itself is written in language that most people cannot read or understand, which keeps them from accessing their own rights.

Where does this leave you?

It leaves law students stressed, underprepared, and convinced they are "not good enough." It leaves lay people without access to their own legal rights. It leaves the legal profession closed off to all but those who can afford to spend years decoding the code.

HOW ESQUIREMATCH CHANGES THAT

We started EsquireMatch to make the law more accessible. We believe that:

  • Legal rules can & should be taught clearly. Every concept in Torts, Contracts, and Property can be distilled into plain English.

  • Practice is the key to mastery. Students should have access to dozens of realistic hypotheticals—not just one practice exam.

  • Model answers should be transparent. You should see what a top-scoring IRAC answer looks like, not just be told to "write better."

  • Learning should be active. You don't learn the law by reading it. You learn it by applying it.

Our platform gives you the tools you need to succeed:

  • Section-by-section outlines that organize the law in a way that makes sense

  • Practice hypotheticals that replicate real exam conditions

  • Model answers that show you what professors are looking for

  • Attack outlines that help you spot issues under time pressure

OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW

When the first semester of law school starts, professors and fellow students will tell you to read every case, do every case brief, and take meticulous notes to build an outline that you can later use on the exam.

What they won’t tell you is that some students enter law school already knowing how to play the law school game. They have access to their parents' outlines. They know how professors grade. They understand that case briefing is not the point—issue-spotting and application are. So while you're drowning in reading, they are already practicing.

That is why we designed course outlines with more than 50 hypotheticals, to help you learn to apply rules to new facts, write IRAC answers, and show you exactly what a top-scoring answer looks like.

WE STARTED ESQUIREMATCH TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD

We want to make legal education accessible to law students of all backgrounds—not just those who already know the game.

Our first step in realizing this goal is delivering to first year law students course outlines that are designed to help you ace 1L exams before the class even starts. Hope you enjoy.

— The EsquireMatch Team