A free legal self-help platform that drafts court-ready federal and state filings — complaints, motions, and demand letters — using only verified case citations, guided by Atticus BradStreet McDermott, the first AI counsel sent to law school.

Does it cost anything to draft a legal document?

No. Document drafting, the law library, and Know Your Rights education are free for all. The store and collectibles support the mission.

Are the case citations real?

Yes — every authority comes from a hand-verified arsenal of more than 200 controlling cases. If a citation is not verified to exist, it is never used.

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The Full Academic Record · A Renaissance Counsel

The McDermott Academy

A great counsel is not a narrow one. To serve a citizen, you must understand the citizen's whole world — the business they built, the ground beneath their home, the structure that failed, the science in the evidence. So Atticus BradStreet McDermott was educated broadly and deeply: 21 degrees across law, business, earth science, engineering, forensics, and the humanities — atop a complete childhood education, kindergarten through the twelfth grade.

The Foundation · where every education begins

Kindergarten & Primary (K–5)

Reading, arithmetic, and the schoolyard bedrock of fair and unfair — how to share, how to take turns, how never to harm the weak.

Middle School (6–8)

Grammar, composition, civics, and the beginnings of history — how free people are made and how tyranny arrives.

High School Diploma (9–12)

Literature, world history, science, mathematics, and rhetoric. Graduated with honors — the diploma every counsel should hold before a single degree.

The Crown: J.D. · LL.M. · S.J.D. in Law

The ten-year doctorate in American law, criminal and civil — see the full transcript, diploma, and bar result at the McDermott AI School of Law →

Faculty of Business & Commerce

B.S. — Small Business Administration

Formation, licensing, cash flow, and the law of the sole proprietor and the corner shop — the backbone of America.

M.B.A. — Enterprise & Big-Business Management

Scaling operations, strategy, and governance for large organizations and publicly traded firms.

M.S. — Corporate Administration & Governance

Corporations, LLCs, fiduciary duty, securities, boards, and the law of the entity.

M.S. — Economics

Micro, macro, and the incentives that actually move markets and people.

Faculty of Earth & Environmental Science

B.S. — Environmental Science (Eco-Science)

Ecosystems, climate, and the science behind environmental law and stewardship.

B.S. — Geology

The structure of the earth, resources, hazards, and the ground every foundation and every mineral right sits upon.

M.S. — Oceanography (Oceanology)

Ocean systems, currents, marine ecology, and the law of the sea and coastal resources.

Faculty of Engineering

B.S. — Structural Engineering

Loads, materials, and why buildings stand or fall — the discipline behind construction defect and premises cases.

M.S. — Social Systems Engineering

The ethical design of institutions and organizations for the betterment of society — the honest study of how systems shape behavior, never manipulation.

B.S. — Data & Computer Science

Algorithms, data integrity, and the machinery underneath verified, hallucination-proof reasoning.

Faculty of Medicine, Psychology & Human Behavior

M.D. — Medicine & the Healing Arts

The human body, diagnosis, and treatment — the science behind personal-injury, medical-negligence, and competency questions in the law.

Ph.D. — Human Psychology

Cognition, trauma, memory, and behavior — how witnesses remember, how juries decide, and how people under pressure actually act.

M.S. — Psychopharmacology & Therapeutic Restraint

A research concentration examining the over-reliance on psychotropic medication and the evidence for non-pharmaceutical, root-cause approaches to healing. Informational study only.

Forensic Case Studies — The Court TV Casebook

Ongoing study of notable American trials (including the Clancy case) as forensic and procedural teaching examples — what the record shows, and what the law made of it.

Faculty of Forensics, Letters & Public Life

B.S. — Forensic Science

Evidence, chain of custody, and the science that wins and loses trials.

B.A. — Rhetoric & Classical Studies

Aristotle, Cicero, and the two-thousand-year art of persuasion — the backbone of The Lectern.

M.A. — Philosophy & Ethics

Right and wrong from natural law to legal realism — the mind behind the Moral Compass.

M.P.A. — Public Policy & Administration

How law becomes policy, how agencies work, and how the people hold them to account.

The degrees listed describe the breadth of knowledge and training built into this platform's AI counsel. They are an internal record of the McDermott Academy's standards, not accredited university degrees or professional licenses. Nothing on this platform is medical advice — no one should start or stop any prescribed medication without a qualified physician. LAW SKUNK provides legal information, not legal or medical advice, and is not a substitute for a licensed attorney or doctor.

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