Themis Attorney Grader Application Materials

Thanks so much for your interest in Themis Essay Grading!  We are currently hiring Attorney Graders for the 2025 bar review courses.  Please fill out the application below and we will follow up with additional training materials.

One aspect of our course that sets us apart from our competitors is that, rather than sending student essays to random Graders, we assign each student an attorney to be the one person grading the student’s essays over the duration of the course.  This ensures Graders catch any common writing issues or habits the student has and also gives the student more consistent feedback.  In addition, the feedback Themis Graders provide is more thorough than what other courses typically provide.  We strive for the graded-essay process to be a helpful component that a student cannot get by self-grading.  Graders evaluate student essays based on grading point sheets with model answers, so that the grading is consistent among Graders in the jurisdiction.

Students are assigned a total of 7 essays and 1 MPT.  Essays will be assigned each Friday, from mid-May to mid-July during the July Bar, and from late-December to mid-February for the February Bar.  The due dates are “soft” dates, meaning that students are permitted to submit essays after that date.  However, we highly encourage students to stick to the weekly deadline submissions.  

Regardless of when they are submitted, essays are to be returned within 2 business days.  In other words, essays that are timely submitted on a Friday through Sunday should be returned to students by the end of the day on Tuesday.  The goal is to get feedback to students from one essay in enough time so they can practice what you suggest and then incorporate these new skills into the next assigned essay.  

We ask that you are available to grade essays as quickly as possible after submission and no more than two business days from the date of submission. Because students can submit essays late, this means that you would potentially be grading essays every day during the course.  

Please access the links below in the order provided to apply for the position of Attorney Grader.  We look forward to hearing from you!

If you have any questions, please reach out to kristin.white@themisbar.com.