Fall 2026 Pilot · For Law Schools

The case method,
extended.

AllRise places law students inside real closed cases. They review authentic filings, evidence, and testimony, then argue the case as counsel on either side. The pilot launches with Enron.

Experiential learning,
grounded in the actual record.

Students work through a real closed case in the Case Desk. Evidence, witness statements, motions, pivotal moments. Every document is drawn from the documented record.

Then they argue it. Against AI opposing counsel. Before an AI judge whose temperament reflects the actual presiding judge. The AI does not fabricate facts.

They submit a structured reflection afterward. Their choices, their reasoning, a comparison to the actual trial counsel. Built for rubric-based grading and classroom discussion.

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Core Principle

No Fabricated Facts

Cases are reconstructed from the documented record: court filings, trial transcripts, appellate opinions, and contemporaneous reporting. Where facts were disputed at trial, they are presented as disputed. Where the record is incomplete, gaps are noted. This discipline is what makes AllRise usable as a pedagogical tool rather than a fictional treatment.

Three ways to
assign the case.

I

Pre-class

Assign as preparation before the fiduciary duty unit. Students arrive with a concrete fact pattern and strategic instinct, ready for Socratic dialogue.

II

Capstone

Assign as a capstone after covering duty of care, duty of loyalty, and the business judgment rule. Students apply doctrine under adversarial pressure.

III

In-class

Run in breakout groups during class. Half the room argues defense, half argues prosecution. Debrief the divergence in choices and outcomes.

IV

Reflect

Each student submits a structured reflection: their strategy, their reasoning, and a comparison to the actual trial counsel. Designed for rubric grading.

Enron.
The real record.

The pilot begins with United States v. Skilling, the criminal prosecution arising from the collapse of Enron Corporation.

The case sits directly on the Business Associations spine: fiduciary duties of officers and directors, the business judgment rule, corporate governance failures, the scope of honest services fraud, and the boundary between aggressive accounting and criminal conduct.

It produced the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and continues to shape how courts evaluate director oversight under Caremark and its progeny. For students, it offers something rare: a case rich enough to reward careful reading, consequential enough that the doctrine genuinely mattered.

Case File
Case
United States v. Skilling
Citation
561 U.S. 358 (2010)
Category
White Collar · Securities & Corporate Fraud
Roles Available
Defense · Prosecution · Judge · Juror
Curriculum Fit
Business Associations · Securities Regulation · White Collar Crime · Professional Responsibility
Student Time
60–90 minutes per run

Student Learning Objectives

  • Identify fiduciary duties owed by officers and directors under Delaware law and explain how the alleged conduct breached those duties.
  • Evaluate the business judgment rule as a defense and the conditions under which it is stripped away.
  • Articulate the distinction between aggressive accounting, civil securities fraud, and criminal fraud.
  • Assess the role of gatekeepers (auditors, outside counsel, analysts) in corporate governance failure.
  • Construct a coherent theory of the case and defend strategic decisions under adversarial pressure.

A small cohort of
faculty partners.

We are selecting a limited group of Business Associations professors to run the Enron case with one of their fall 2026 sections. Pilot partners help shape the product. Their courses become our first published case studies.

i.

Free Semester Access

Full access for your class roster for the fall 2026 term, including the Case Desk, simulation, and reflection tools.

ii.

Teacher’s Guide

Case background, discussion questions, rubric template, and syllabus alignment. Written for law faculty.

iii.

Direct Line

A dedicated channel to our team all semester. Your feedback shapes the product before the broader launch.

iv.

Attribution

Your course becomes our first published case study, with full attribution and shared methodology notes.

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Responses reviewed weekly · Cohort closes June 15