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Record Civ Pro, upload Themis, or drop in a Barbri video. Distill extracts holdings, generates IRAC outlines, and ships bar-ready flashcards that match MBE question structure.
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Barbri — Evidence Lecture 4.mp4
2h 14m · Captured for law students
Law school is a reading comprehension test disguised as a degree. You read eighty pages of opinions, go to class, get cold-called on the one case you skimmed, and then do it again tomorrow. Bar prep compounds the pain: six weeks, 1,200 hours of video lectures, and the assumption that you will somehow turn all of it into usable flashcards.
Distill does the turning. Feed it a Themis lecture or a class recording and it returns case briefs in the exact format your 1L professor drilled into you: facts, procedural posture, issue, holding, reasoning, and concurrence/dissent. It generates IRAC outlines for every rule mentioned. It ships MBE-style flashcards with plausible distractors — the same four-answer format you'll see on exam day.
We built the product after watching 3Ls turn into walking zombies the week before the bar. The problem isn't that bar takers don't study hard — it's that they waste six to eight hours a day re-listening to lectures they've already watched, trying to catch the rule statement they missed. Distill captures the rule statement the first time and hands it back as a flashcard.
For 1Ls it's even more important. When your professor cold-calls you on International Shoe and asks whether the new Nicastro case narrows it, you need the holding, not a three-page recap. Distill pre-briefs every case you upload and lets you search by party name, jurisdiction, or doctrine across your entire semester.
Real workflows. No fluff.
Drop in a Westlaw or CourtListener PDF. Distill generates a full case brief in IRAC format with concurrence and dissent broken out. Import the whole 1L reading list over a weekend and never pull an all-nighter briefing again.
Record every Socratic class. Distill labels your professor vs the student they're grilling, extracts the hypothetical they threw out, and tags every new rule statement. Search 'substantial relationship test' three weeks later and get the exact moment your professor defined it.
Upload a bar prep lecture. Distill generates flashcards matched to the MBE's four-option format, tags them by subject (Contracts, Torts, Con Law), and tracks which ones you're still missing.
Paste in a practice essay prompt. Distill extracts the issues, sketches an IRAC outline, and flags the slippery facts that change the analysis — perfect for MEE or CA bar essay practice.
Distill assembles a living outline across your semester, grouping every rule statement by doctrine. By exam week you have a 40-page outline you didn't have to type.
Stars mark the top 3 features for law students.
| Feature | Distill | Generic AI tools |
|---|---|---|
| ★Case-brief format output (facts/issue/holding/reasoning) | Native IRAC / CREAC | Bland bullet summary |
| ★Cold-call speaker separation | Professor vs student labels | Single speaker only |
| ★MBE-style flashcard generation | Four-option format with distractors | Basic recall |
| Long bar-prep lectures (3+ hrs) | Up to 15 hrs | 15–30 min caps |
| Legal citation recognition | Preserves Bluebook format | Cites mangled |
| Doctrine tagging (Torts, K, Con Law, etc.) | Auto-tagged | Manual |
| Concurrence/dissent handling | Broken out | Often merged |
| Cross-case doctrine search | Semantic search | Single-session only |
| Essay issue-spotting | Built-in | Not supported |
| Anki / Quizlet export | Native | Copy/paste |
“Cold calls went from terror to routine. Distill labels my Civ Pro prof and the student they're calling on, so I can pull up the exact rule from last Thursday in three seconds.”
Elena V.
1L at a T14
“I used Distill to brief my entire Evidence casebook in one weekend. The briefs follow the exact IRAC structure my prof wants and I've yet to catch a mistake.”
Jamal B.
2L, trial team
“Barbri gives you 1,200 hours of video. Distill turned it into 4,800 MBE-style cards I could actually drill. Passed on my first try.”
Priya M.
Admitted, NY bar 2025
ChatGPT and generic transcribers miss the details that matter. Distill was built for your workflow.
Distill outputs facts, procedural posture, issue, holding, reasoning, and concurrence/dissent as separate labeled fields. ChatGPT produces a wall of prose that you still have to reformat.
We don't mangle 'U.S. v Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995)' into 'US versus Lopez, 514 US 549 1995.' The citation layer keeps Bluebook conventions intact on export.
Bar flashcards need four answer choices with wrong answers that sound right. Distill generates distractors based on adjacent doctrine, not random wrong answers, so you actually train for the exam.
Generic transcribers treat a cold-call session as one continuous monologue. Distill labels the professor and separates student contributions so you can search for 'what my prof said' versus 'what the gunner said.'
Taylor went into bar prep with an honest accounting: they'd skipped a lot of 2L. Their outlines were a mess. Barbri's study schedule assumed they'd watched every lecture, which they mostly hadn't.
They uploaded every Barbri lecture they'd missed — 48 hours of video total — over a single weekend. Distill generated MBE-style flashcards tagged by subject, doctrine, and difficulty. Taylor drilled the deck on their phone during subway rides and between simulated practice exams.
Six weeks later Taylor sat for the UBE. They credit Distill for the subject-level coverage — specifically the fact that the flashcards matched the format of the real exam questions. They didn't love bar prep. But they passed on the first try and started their associate job on time.
Outcome: Passed UBE on first sitting after converting 48 hours of missed Barbri video into 1,900 MBE-format flashcards in a single weekend.
Plus is enough for most 1L and 2L workflows. Pro adds 15-hour sessions for full bar-prep videos and essay issue-spotting at scale.
Your JD is not a reading-speed test. Let Distill handle the briefing so you can spend your hours on analysis, advocacy, and actually enjoying the part of law you came here for.