Litigator One Is Coming to Fix What’s Broken About Law School Admissions Guidance
The AI platform launching this summer is built to make expert-level law school support accessible to every student, not just those who can afford it
Law school admissions consulting has a pricing problem. And a pre-law student from UC Irvine just came up with the answer to it.
Litigator One, an AI-powered platform for pre-law and law students, is preparing to launch publicly this summer, timed directly ahead of the next law school application cycle. The platform is currently in beta, the waitlist is open, and the mission is straightforward: make the kind of personalized, expert-level guidance that has historically cost thousands of dollars available to every student, regardless of what they can afford.
The founder is Shahin Amos: pre-law student, Dean’s List honoree at UC Irvine, and the kind of builder who identified a problem he was living through and decided to solve it rather than work around it. Shahin came to law through an unconventional path, beginning university as a computer science student before switching to political science to pursue a legal career. That crossover, technical fluency meeting legal ambition, is exactly what made Litigator One possible. He saw a gap in legal education that his background positioned him to close, and he started building.
The problem he’s solving is a structural one. The guidance that shapes who gets into competitive law schools, personalized school lists, soft-factor analysis, essay support, and admissions strategy has long been concentrated among high-cost consultants and premium tools that assume financial access from the start. Students who can pay get a structured roadmap. Students who can’t piece it together on their own are navigating one of the most consequential applications of their lives without the same level of support. Litigator One is built to change that equation.
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The platform is built around two pillars. Admissions OS takes a student from “I’m thinking about law school” to their final deposit decision. It starts with a full profile: grades, LSAT, soft factors, timing, and non-traditional background, and builds a strategy from there. Underneath it is individually sourced research on all 101 ABA-accredited law schools in the country, including the entire T14, covering far more than medians and rankings: admissions behavior, what each school’s essays are actually testing, interview culture, scholarship negotiation dynamics, employment and clerkship outcomes, bar passage, and real cost and ROI. On top of that sits the personalized toolset: a chances calculator that weighs a full profile against recent cycles, reach/target/safety list-building, an essay evaluation engine with a dedicated workspace for every school’s prompts, LOR guidance, scholarship-negotiation support, deadline and addenda trackers, a verified-student community forum, and a final decision recommendation once offers are in.
Career OS picks up exactly where admissions ends. The same student identity continues from 1L through recruiting, clerkship season, and bar prep, with the platform adapting to wherever they are in the journey. Its research layer covers 63 law firms spanning Cravath and the elite firms down through Am Law 100 and 200 and regional powerhouses, 22 federal and state judges for clerkship targeting, and 14 public-interest and government organizations, including DOJ Honors, U.S. Attorney’s Offices, the ACLU, the Innocence Project, and the Brennan Center. Every one of the 101 schools also carries a career overlay: which firms recruit there, recruiting timing, clerkship feeder strength, and regional placement data. Layered on top are firm and clerkship targeting, recruiting strategy, materials review for resumes, cover letters and writing samples, networking guidance, non-BigLaw pathway planning, and bar prep. A single cockpit that evolves from 1L grade strategy to 2L recruiting to 3L clerkship and bar, without the student ever having to start over somewhere else.
The entire platform runs on sourced, cited research. Anything unverified gets flagged. No fabricated numbers, no generalizations dressed up as intelligence; just information students can actually act on when the stakes are high.
What separates Litigator One from existing tools isn’t just the depth of what it covers; it’s the vantage point behind it. Shahin isn’t observing the pre-law experience from the outside. He’s in it: studying for the LSAT, managing his academic path, and building the platform simultaneously, with every product decision informed by someone navigating the exact problem in real time. He’s also developed it in ongoing conversation with law students, professors, and practicing attorneys, keeping the platform grounded in how admissions and legal careers actually work rather than how they appear from a distance.
He funded the earliest version himself. No outside capital, no institutional backing; just a solo founder who treated the project less like a side hustle and more like the thing he was meant to build. Running the entire operation while carrying a full pre-law course load forced a discipline that shows in the product: focused, purposeful, and built around what students genuinely need rather than what’s easiest to sell them.
The timing of the summer 2026 launch is intentional. Litigator One will be fully available before the next application cycle, giving students who join the waitlist early a meaningful head start in a process where timing matters. The access gap in law school admissions guidance has existed long enough. This summer, it starts closing.
The waitlist is open now at litigator.one. Follow Shahin at @shahinpardiss on Instagram, TikTok, and X, and Litigator One at @litigator.one on Instagram and TikTok.
