What to Expect When You Reach Out
You are reaching one person: Curtis Lewis. There is no intake team, no queue, and no sales script. When you call or email, you are talking directly to the coach who will be reading your case briefs and marking up your practice exams.
The first conversation is short and practical. I want to know where you are in the semester, which class is giving you the most trouble, and what your last graded work looked like. From there I can tell you honestly whether coaching will help you and what a realistic schedule would look like. If it is not a fit, I will say so.
Coaching happens by phone and video, so it does not matter where your school is. Students working through 1L doctrinal courses, students rebuilding after a rough first semester, and students heading into finals all reach out at different points in the year — none of those is too early or too late to start.
What to Tell Me in Your First Message
You do not need to prepare anything formal. But if you include a few of these details in your first call or email, we can skip the warm-up and get straight to what would actually move your grades.
- Which year you are in and which courses you are taking right now
- The class that is hardest for you, and what specifically feels hard — reading, briefing, outlining, or writing the exam
- Your most recent exam or midterm grade, and whether you got feedback on it
- Whether you have ever seen a model answer or a graded exam side by side with your own
- How much time you can realistically give to coaching each week
- Whether you want ongoing sessions or focused help before a specific exam
If you have a graded exam, a practice answer, or a case brief you are willing to share, send it along. Real work from your own class tells me more in five minutes than a long description of the problem.
How the Coaching Works
Sessions are one-on-one and built around your actual coursework — your cases, your professor's hypotheticals, your outline. We work on the skills law school grades on: reading a case for the rule rather than the story, briefing so the brief is useful later, structuring an answer in IRAC, spotting the issues a fact pattern is hiding, and writing under time pressure the way a real exam demands.
Scheduling is flexible because the hours are wide. I take calls and sessions Monday through Sunday, 9:00am to 7:00pmwhich means evenings after class and weekends before a big deadline are both on the table. Tell me what your week looks like and we will find a time that does not compete with your reading.
Between sessions, you do the work and send it in. I read it, mark it, and we talk about what changed. That loop — write, get real feedback, write again — is the whole engine of the coaching.
Start With a Conversation
The fastest way to get started is to pick up the phone. Call (903) 651-6999 and we can talk through your situation right then. If you would rather write first, email curtislewis420@gmail.com with a sentence or two about where you are stuck and I will get back to you with times.
There is no obligation attached to that first conversation. Ask your questions, hear how the sessions run, and decide afterward. Most students find that even the initial call gives them something concrete to try in their next reading assignment.