Hear the case
A narrated, illustrated case file: two sides, one dispute, under a minute to absorb.
The Bench, a voice-first legal judgment game
Hear the case.
Make the ruling.
Step onto the bench. Hear a short fictional case, rule on it out loud in your own words, and get a rubric-graded scorecard grounded in real, verified precedent.
Educational only. Never legal advice. All cases are fictional.
The 1L six
Six practice areas, drawn from the case file
Every case ships with its own court-sketch exhibit: ink and gouache, straight from the file.
Civil Procedure
Constitutional Law
Contracts
Criminal Law
Property
Torts
How it works
One sitting of the court
Rule out loud
Argue it like a judge from the bench: your ruling, your reasons, the authority you rely on, spoken in your own words.
Get your scorecard
A rubric-graded scorecard across six categories, with feedback quote-traced to what you actually said.
The method
If you can’t say it simply,
you don’t know it yet.
Feynman’s test for real understanding was to explain a thing in plain words, out loud, until the gaps show. That is the whole exercise here. There is no multiple choice to hide behind, just the facts, your ruling, and the reasons you have to say in your own words.
And you can say it freely. Your ruling is transcribed on your iPhone: the recording never leaves the device, and we receive the text, not the audio. You read that text, fix anything misheard, and nothing is scored until you approve it.
Prefer to type? Every ruling can be typed instead of spoken, and is scored identically.
Explain it in your own words
The recording never leaves your phone
You approve the text
The habit
One case a day.
Every judge hears the same one.
Small enough to keep, hard enough to count. One free case a day, one attempt, no retries, then it’s done and you get on with your evening. The streak is the point: miss more than a day and it goes back to one, and there is no repair.
Everyone rules on the same facts that day. Once enough judges have ruled, you can see where your score landed against the rest of the docket.
Daily streaks
One attempt, no retries
Always free
The feedback
Two ways to see
where you stand
Your Mastery Map. Six axes, one for each 1L area, drawn from how you have actually been ruling. The shape grows outward as your reasoning gets stronger, and a gold ring marks the line where an area counts as mastered, so a weak corner is obvious at a glance.
The leaderboard. A weekly board of the top judges by XP earned that week, reset every Monday, plus a standing showcase of the highest careers on the bench. Claim a username and you are on it, subscription or not. Your own row travels with you, ranked or not.
Mastery at a glance
Weekly leaderboard
The authority
Fictional cases.
Real, verified precedent.
Every case is invented. Every authority behind its rubric is a real, decided court case, and it has to prove it before the case is ever published: the citation must resolve to a real court record and the case name must match that record. If it doesn’t, the case is thrown out and written again rather than quietly patched.
Your feedback is held to the same standard. It quotes your own words back to you, and every quote is checked against what you actually said before you ever see it, then points at the authority your reasoning should have leaned on.
Climb nine judicial ranks
Every practice ruling earns XP, and XP is the whole ladder, from Law Clerk to Chief Justice. How well you rule sets how fast you climb.
Law Clerk
Trial Judge
Appellate Judge
Justice
Chief Justice
The Bench is for education and entertainment. It never provides legal advice.
All cases are fictional. The precedent cited in feedback is real, verified case law, but nothing here applies to your situation.