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SLLC Attorney Final · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

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.

Week 2

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.

Week 3

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.

Week 4

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.

Week 5

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.

Week 6

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.

Week 7

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.

Week 8

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.