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The main goal for Savkar’s product Connected Casebook is to provide students with a digital textbook option in place of traditional, bulky textbooks. Connected Casebook also provides students with digital note annotation and a digital structure to build year-long law outlines.

However, Savkar says Connected Casebook’s future plans include implementing law firm simulations for students to practice real world law, such as contract drafting.

“In this platform, we also have a number of law firm simulations, which are 3-D like simulations of actual law firms that get students to practice what it is actually like to draft a contract,” he says. “Most law classes are academic in focus, you learn the academic practices, like contracts and torts, but you generally don’t learn how to actually draft a contract, which is what you need to do at a law firm.

“The platform helps students better prepare themselves for being lawyers.”

Savkar says Connected Casebook also plans on including practice training centers, which will serve as a resource library for students during and after law school.

“Students can learn in their classes how to apply something, but once they become lawyers, they need to remember it, and refresh their memories,” he says. “We’re creating a master memory bank for them to go back and look at what things mean, how things are done. Connected Casebook will stay with students their whole lives as they become professional lawyers.”

Savkar says Connected Casebook will one day provide a feature that will enable lawyers to reconnect with their law schools so they can stay current on new information in real world law on a wider scale.

“This is real world experience, what they’re planning to do in the future,” he says. “Law is being made and remade all the time. Once students become lawyers, they need to stay abreast of this every single day, they need to know in their area of experience what’s going on and how to assimilate that knowledge in their own work very quickly.”

“We have products to keep professional lawyers of abreast of current events with something called the “dailies,” and we’re working this into our products into academics and how to apply that knowledge in their law firm context,” Savkar says. “Law students are also seeing the latest cases that are being settled in IP law, learning to re-think about what’s happening and re-immerse themselves in the real world environment on what is being debated. It not only gives them specific content that they need to build a mastery on, it broadens their perspective.”