SLLC Attorney Final study plan
SLLC Attorney Final · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Substantive Law (Family, Housing, Consumer, Public Benefits)
Build a two-column comparison of fault versus no-fault dissolution grounds and the best-interest custody factors, citing a source line for every factor so you can defend each element under pressure.
Compute guideline child support for three hypothetical fact patterns, then identify which upward or downward deviations require written findings and which are presumptive.
Diagram the eviction timeline from notice to judgment, marking each tenant-defense trigger: notice defect, retaliation, habitability breach, discrimination, and subsidy-status protection.
Draft a one-page intake checklist for a protective-order petition that captures the relationship category, venue choice, emergency versus standard relief, and firearm provisions.
Write the reasonable-accommodation request-and-response analysis for two disability scenarios in subsidized housing, naming the requesting party, the interactive process, and the denial standard.
Your checkpoint
A closed-book 30-question family and housing set scored at 75% or higher, with a written rule statement for every missed item.
Substantive Law (Family, Housing, Consumer, Public Benefits)
Summarize debt-collection, credit-reporting, and truth-in-lending triggers in a one-page table mapping prohibited conduct to element to available remedy and limitations period.
Analyze three debt-buyer fact patterns for standing, chain-of-title defects, and counterclaims, writing the proof gap that defeats each claim.
Outline the fair-hearing process across SNAP, Medicaid, and TANF, capturing notice timing, request deadlines, continuing-aid rules, and the right to representation.
Draft the elements and defenses for an overpayment recoupment challenge, including waiver, agency error, and hardship-adjustment arguments.
Compare Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 outcomes for three client profiles and flag the nondischargeable categories that survive each.
Your checkpoint
A 40-question consumer and public-benefits set completed in 45 minutes or less, with an error log naming the governing rule for every miss.
Substantive Law (Family, Housing, Consumer, Public Benefits) & Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Apply confidentiality and diminished-capacity rules to minor and incapacitated-adult clients in family and housing matters, producing a written recommended course of action for each of four scenarios.
Identify every conflict-check failure in a hypothetical multi-client benefits clinic and state the required screening, consent, or withdrawal step for each.
Complete a closed-book pass over all four Domain 3 subtopics, rank each from strongest to weakest, and write three original questions for each weak area.
Reconcile fee-agreement and cost-advance rules with fee-shifting statutes in consumer-protection and public-benefits cases, noting where a contingency or fee waiver creates an ethics problem.
Your checkpoint
A ranked Domain 3 weakness map plus 30 self-written questions targeting your three lowest-ranked subtopics, each with a cited answer explanation.
Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Recite from memory the rule number and core requirement for competence, scope of representation, fees, confidentiality, current-client conflicts, former-client conflicts, diminished capacity, and withdrawal, then self-score against the rule text and rewrite every gap.
Work 25 conflict hypotheticals and write the disqualified-party analysis and the availability or limits of consent for each.
Reconcile candor-to-the-tribunal duties with confidentiality in three fact patterns involving client perjury, false evidence, or a client who insists on testifying falsely, stating the remedial step required.
Build a trust-accounting checklist covering commingling, funds earned on receipt, disputed funds, and recordkeeping, and apply it to two messy ledgers.
Analyze advertising and solicitation limits against two targeted-mail and one social-media scenario, stating whether each is permissible, prohibited, or requires a disclaimer.
Your checkpoint
A timed 50-question ethics set scored at 80% or higher, plus a one-page exception sheet covering every rule you missed or confused.
Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility & Civil Litigation and Procedure
Map the ethics rules that attach at each litigation stage, filing, discovery, negotiation, trial, and appeal, onto a single timeline with the trigger event for each duty.
Draft a complaint, an answer with affirmative defenses, and a motion to dismiss for a housing dispute, then check each against pleading-specificity and amendment rules.
Determine personal jurisdiction, venue, and limitations issues in four short fact patterns and write the controlling test before applying it.
Diagram service-of-process requirements and trace the consequences of defective service in a default-judgment posture, including the vacatur standard.
Your checkpoint
A complete litigation-stage ethics timeline plus a 35-question civil-procedure set scored at 75% or higher.
Civil Litigation and Procedure
Draft interrogatories, document requests, and admission requests that survive an overbreadth or undue-burden objection, with a written objection-proof rationale for each request.
Write the summary-judgment standard from memory and apply it to two records containing genuinely disputed material facts.
List the preservation duties, privilege-log requirements, and sanction standards triggered by a discovery dispute, and match each to a remedy.
Sequence the steps from verdict to appeal, distinguishing a renewed judgment motion, a new-trial motion, and the notice-of-appeal deadline, and state what is waived if each is skipped.
Apply claim preclusion and issue preclusion to three successive-litigation scenarios, identifying which elements fail.
Your checkpoint
A timed 45-question civil-procedure set scored at 80% or higher, plus a corrected model answer to one summary-judgment essay.
Civil Litigation and Procedure & Substantive Law (Family, Housing, Consumer, Public Benefits)
Trace an eviction case from notice through appeal, naming the procedural rule and the substantive defense operating at each step.
Build the procedural roadmap for a public-benefits appeal from agency notice to judicial review, capturing exhaustion, the record below, and the standard of review.
Analyze a debt-collection suit for procedural defects in service, venue, and pleading specificity alongside the substantive counterclaims, and rank which defect to lead with.
Write two 30-minute essay outlines that each pair a procedural issue with a substantive family or housing issue, and self-grade against a rubric you write first.
Your checkpoint
Two timed crossover essays written in 30 minutes each, self-graded against a written rubric with a numeric score and two concrete fixes for the next attempt.
Substantive Law (Family, Housing, Consumer, Public Benefits) & Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Take two full-length timed mock exams under exam conditions, one at the start of the week and one at the end, and record per-domain and per-question-type scores.
Re-derive every missed item to its governing rule and re-teach your ten highest-frequency misses in writing.
Drill a 20-item rapid-fire set for each Domain 3 subtopic until every subtopic clears 85%.
Reproduce a one-page ethics exception sheet from blank paper twice, correcting from the rule text between attempts.
Rehearse timing benchmarks per question and cut your average per-question time to the exam target without dropping accuracy.
Your checkpoint
Two scored full-length mocks with the second at 80% overall or higher and no domain below 70%, plus a final one-page last-look sheet.
Milestones
Week 2: All four Domain 3 subtopics have a working outline, and the consumer/benefits practice set is at 70% or higher with every miss logged to a rule.
Week 4: Domain 3 and Domain 1 outlines are complete; ethics practice is at 80% or higher and Domain 3 practice at 75% or higher, with a written rule statement for every logged miss.
Week 6: Civil-procedure outline is complete and the timed set is at 80% or higher; you can write the summary-judgment standard and the appeal sequence from memory without notes.
Week 8: Second full-length mock at 80% overall, no domain below 70%, average per-question time at or under target, and the last-look sheet reproduced from memory.