Legal Aptitude Assessment (LAA)

Competency-Based Legal Admissions Prototype

A proposed framework for evaluating legal aptitude through legal reasoning tasks rather than general abstract reasoning alone.

Research Prototype — S.D. Lawrence

The Legal Aptitude Assessment (LAA) evaluates five competency areas.

Area I
Legal Reading
Area II
Rule Application
Area III
Argument Analysis
Area IV
Fact Relevance
Area V
Professional Judgment

The central design principle of the LAA is legal aptitude, not legal knowledge.

All questions are designed to be answerable without prior legal education.