Pre-Law Track · Inaugural Summer 2028
Capstone agent · Build legal AI.
I built an AI agent that reviews contracts and flags non-standard clauses.
What your child will build
An agentic system that ingests a contract, compares each clause to a firm's standard, redlines deviations with reasoning, and produces a marked-up draft a junior associate can hand to a partner.
What it does
Co-Teaching Faculty
Practicing attorney · Northwestern Pritzker Law
Our pre-law track is co-taught by a working law fellow — recruited from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law or a leading regional litigation or transactional firm — alongside a senior software engineer. Your child learns from an attorney who has lived inside the contract-review workflow, and who can articulate what a partner actually wants from a junior associate's first redline. The mentor relationship continues past the program: pre-law students who perform well receive a personal letter of recommendation and direct introductions into the broader practitioner network.
“Students leave understanding what a partner reads first in a redline — and what citations earn the trust of a busy attorney.”
Curriculum Deep-Dive
The pre-law cohort splits off from the shared Week 1 foundations and works directly with the law fellow on contract structure, citation systems, and the framing problems unique to legal AI.
Week 1 foundations are shared across all 5 tracksWeek 3 builds + admissions coaching
Sample student work
Sample capstone projects illustrating the scope of Pre-Law work. Inaugural cohort is Summer 2028 — these are not real-alumni outcomes.
Sample student work — Maya R. (rising 11th)
Built an agent that compares incoming NDAs to a firm's standard form, redlines deviations, cites the partner's prior negotiation positions, and produces a 3-line summary at the top of the redline.
Sample student work — Daniel K. (rising 12th)
Built an agent that reads two competing employment offers and produces a side-by-side comparison memo flagging non-standard clauses, citing relevant state law, and recommending negotiation priorities.
Why this track wins for admissions
An admissions reader at a top pre-law university — Ivy League undergraduate, accelerated 3+3 J.D., or BA-with-pre-law-track program — is looking for the rare applicant who can argue a position with structure, cite authority for it, and engage with the actual mechanics of legal practice. Most strong pre-law applicants present debate trophies, mock-trial wins, and student-government leadership — all important, all common. Far fewer can sit across from an interviewer and discuss the design tradeoffs in contract-review automation, the role of citation grounding in trustworthy legal AI, or how a junior associate actually hands work to a partner. Your child finishes the program with a working contract-review agent at a personal URL, an architecture writeup an admissions reader can verify, and a Common App essay built around the project — a piece of writing that makes their interest in law specific, structured, and verifiably their own.
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Pre-Law FAQ
Pre-Law · Selective by design
Selective admissions. We expect a 40 to 60 percent admit rate. Rolling applications through Spring 2028.