Interactive Simulations for Practicing Attorneys
I am building a second line of work: interactive legal simulations written for attorneys who are already practicing, rather than for candidates preparing to be. Two formats are in development.
Objection practicums. A witness examination runs in front of you and you make the call in real time — object or don’t, on what ground, and then argue it when the court asks you to. The rulings are authored in advance against the Federal Rules; what gets evaluated is the quality of your argument, not whether a model happens to agree with you.
Decision-point films. A matter unfolds as a scripted drama and stops at the hinges — the ones where a real lawyer would have had to choose. You choose, you get the reasoning either way, and the case proceeds from where you actually left it.
Neither of these is a recorded lecture with a quiz stapled to the end. Both engines already exist and are in daily use by my bar candidates — you can see the platform they run on. What is new here is the audience and the authoring: content written for people who have already tried cases, with the exam framing stripped out and written materials and citations built in.
Where AI sits in this. Parts of these simulations run on AI — the evaluation of a free-form argument, and the spoken debrief at the end. Judicial rulings are never left to a model; they are written in advance. That is the same architecture and the same disclosure my students get, and it is described in full on the Inside page if you want to look before you sign up for anything.
Beta simulations will not carry New York CLE credit. Not “pending,” not “expected” — no credit at all. Nothing has been filed with the New York State CLE Board, and no beta test will earn you a single hour toward your biennial requirement. If you take part, take part because the subject interests you and you are willing to tell me what is wrong with it, not because you are counting credits.
I intend to apply for accreditation of the finished courses, in the on-demand format, once they are built and can be submitted complete. I am not going to predict the outcome of that application, and I would treat anyone who did predict it about their own product with some suspicion. Until the Board says otherwise, nothing here earns credit. When an application is actually on file, this page will say so in the Board’s own words and will not add anything to them.
New York first. Other jurisdictions are not in scope yet, and I would rather tell you that than let you assume reciprocity that may not exist.
One course of your choosing, free, when the catalogue launches — whatever it is priced at by then. If that course has been accredited by the time you take it, the credit comes with it at no additional charge. There will never be a separate certificate fee here; New York forbids charging attorneys extra for the issuance of credit, and I would not do it in any case.
What it takes to qualify: complete at least one beta simulation and send back the short feedback form that comes with it. That is the whole bargain — I need people who will tell me where the content is thin, where the rulings are wrong, and where the interface gets in the way. Signing up for the list alone doesn’t qualify you; testing does. The free course is redeemable within twelve months of the catalogue going live.
And if it never launches: there will be nothing to redeem, and you will have spent an hour of your time on something that went nowhere. That is the honest risk of beta testing anything, and you should hear it from me at the sign-up rather than work it out later from my silence.
Join the beta list
One email address is all I am asking for. I will write to you when beta testing opens and again when the courses launch — and that is the entire purpose I will ever use it for.
What happens to your address. It is stored for this one purpose, is not added to any other list, is never sold or shared, and is deleted on request or when the beta programme closes — whichever comes first. One line in reply takes you off the list. The details are in Privacy Policy §3.10.
Prefer not to use a form? Email chris@czerwonkalegal.com and I will add you by hand. It reaches me just as well, and I read every message myself.
Not what you came for?
This page is for attorneys already in practice. If you are preparing for the bar examination, that is the main business here and the rest of this site is about it — one package, one price, a pass guarantee, and a cohort capped at twenty.
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