Because the first time you hear your argument shouldn't be at the podium.
MootQourt exists because oral argument is one of the highest-leverage skills in litigation — and the one you get to practice the least. This is the story of why it was built and who it's for.
Pilots train in flight simulators. Lawyers don't.
Hi, I'm Sebastian. I'm a civil rights attorney and litigator practicing in New York, and a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. I built MootQourt after something that had been quietly bothering me for years finally got loud enough to do something about.
Pilots train in flight simulators. Surgeons rehearse on simulation rigs. The military runs war games. Athletes have film rooms and practice reps. Lawyers — who stand up in court and argue cases that change people's lives — get almost none of that.
A handful of real shots a year, if that.
Oral argument is one of the highest-leverage skills in litigation and one of the hardest to practice. You get a handful of real shots a year, if that, and the feedback you get is usually whatever a colleague remembers from the back of a courtroom.
That isn't how anyone gets better at anything. So I built the thing I wished existed.
The tool I wished existed in law school.
MootQourt is the tool I wished existed in law school and earlier in my practice. Now it's what I use to prep for my own oral arguments. If it helps you walk in ready, it's doing its job.
— Sebastian