Experiential learning for legal education

Help students turn legal knowledge into professional skill.

Give law students a safe place to practice client conversations and depositions, make decisions in real time, and learn from structured feedback.

  • Realistic scenarios
  • Voice and text practice
  • Transcript-linked evaluation
Law student practicing a simulated client meeting
Practice loopPrepare → Simulate → Evaluate

Purposeful practice

Designed for learning by doing

Focused exercises make important professional skills visible, repeatable, and easier to coach.

01

Practice before clinic

Students can rehearse foundational professional conversations before working with clients, witnesses, or supervisors.

02

Connect doctrine and judgment

Realistic fact patterns ask learners to identify issues, ask purposeful questions, and communicate with care.

03

Make reflection concrete

Transcripts and rubric-based feedback give faculty and students a shared foundation for review and improvement.

How it works

One clear practice loop.

Learners follow a consistent workflow while the facts, participants, materials, and evaluation change with each scenario.

  1. ChooseSelect a deposition or client-meeting scenario.
  2. PrepareReview the facts, goals, materials, and suggested notes.
  3. PracticeConduct the conversation using voice or text and share relevant materials.
  4. ImproveReview the transcript and scenario-specific performance feedback.

Representative exercises

Practice skills lawyers use every day.

Each exercise pairs a realistic setting with defined goals, participants, materials, and evaluation criteria.

Client meeting

Prospective-client intake

Gather facts, identify deadlines and adverse information, and establish clear next steps.

Deposition

Mock deposition

Take testimony, manage objections, introduce materials, and build a clear record.

Client meeting

Difficult client counseling

Explain risk, manage expectations, and preserve a productive attorney-client relationship.

Where it fits

A flexible resource for law schools

  • Clinical preparation
  • Legal practice courses
  • Trial advocacy
  • Professional identity formation
  • Orientation and readiness
  • Independent student practice

Wickard AI Simulator

Create more opportunities for meaningful practice.

Let students prepare, simulate, evaluate, and repeat—with realistic exercises that complement faculty teaching and live instruction.