Our Expertise
The Law School Admissions
Committee Is Your First Jury.
Present Strong Evidence.
The first case you will win as a lawyer is your admission into a great law school. Whether you’re applying to an LLB in the UK or a JD/LLM in the USA, IBS helps you make a compelling case.
Our Expertise
The Law School Admissions Committee Is Your First Jury.
Present Strong Evidence.
The first case you will win as a lawyer is your admission into a great law school. Whether you’re applying to an LLB in the UK or a JD/LLM in the USA, IBS helps you make a compelling case.
Ivey Bridge Scholars Get into Some of The World’s Best Law Schools.
Our Law School Track Record
250+
Offers to UK & US Law Schools
JD and LLM admits to Fordham, Georgetown, Berkeley, and more.
90%
Of all our JD & LLM applicants get some level of merit-based funding.
$450,000+
in Law School Funding
including the Georgetown Arbitration Award and Ohio Law Dean’s Award.
Admissions is not about sounding impressive.
It is about being undeniable.
Who This Service Is For:
You should work with IBS if you are:
• Targeting competitive law schools and need an application that reads elite and intentional
• An international applicant navigating unfamiliar expectations, formats, and committee preferences
• Switching from another career into law and need a coherent, credible story
• Seeking scholarships, fellowships, assistantships, or funding outcomes
• Reapplying after a previous cycle and need a real strategic rebuild
Before admitting JD and LLM applicants, we ask, “Is this person an academic fit for my law school? Does this person have a good reason for going to law school? You have to let them know you want it, lay your cards on the table, and explain why you want to go there.”
– Kristi Jobson, Harvard Law School Dean of Admissions
What Makes a Law Application Win
Most applicants think the goal is to impress. But the goal is to convince.
A winning law application typically does three things exceptionally well:
A clear legal trajectory:
Why law, why now, and why your chosen pathway
Evidence of legal readiness:
Strong reasoning, writing discipline, public interest or commercial awareness, and intellectual seriousnes
A differentiated voice:
a narrative that is specific, human, and credible, not generic ambition
IBS builds your application around those pillars so admissions teams can picture you as a contributing student, a future colleague, and an institutional asset.
How IBS Helps
Strategy and Case Building
We treat your application like a legal argument and strategize it as a clear thesis, supporting evidence, and a conclusion the committee can trust.
Ivy Level Writing Documentation
A team of Ivy League Law students and magic circle law firm professionals review your personal statement and supplements and refine them for clarity and structure.
LSAC Portal Guidance
For US applicants, we guide you through the LSAC portal with your transcripts and recommendations so administrative details never weaken an otherwise strong application.
Quality Control and Execution
Final checks for formatting, consistency, and portal accuracy so what you submit is clean, credible, and polished
Law School Success Stories
Nada L.
LLB at Nottingham
From Ghana’s Parliament to Nottingham Law: Princess Nada’s Achievement. Princess Nada had first-class honors, paralegal experience at Zoe Akyea & Co., and legal research at Ghana’s Parliament. But UK law schools reject countless qualified international candidates.
We positioned her political science background as an advantage—legislative analysis inside Parliament, commercial law research, and policy brief drafting. Her paralegal work demonstrated contract compliance expertise. Her content coordination showed persuasive writing and logical argumentation which are core legal skills. We showed Nottingham someone bringing both legal foundation and policy perspective
Augustine Y.
NYU LLM
Augustine negotiated M&A transactions from $1M to $89M, secured fintech licenses, and advised Google, Disney, and Adidas. But LLM programs see countless corporate lawyers with strong credentials.
We positioned his deal experience as international sophistication, which most candidates claim but few possess, including structuring cross-border acquisitions across three continents and navigating regulatory frameworks in fintech and mining, as well as conducting due diligence for $10M+ investments. We showed NYU someone already operating at the intersection of international trade, investment law, and compliance, bringing practitioner depth most LLM students lack
Priscilla S.
Berkeley JD
From Ghana’s Parliament to Nottingham Law: Princess Nada’s Achievement. Princess Nada had first-class honors, paralegal experience at Zoe Akyea & Co., and legal research at Ghana’s Parliament. But UK law schools reject countless qualified international candidates.
We positioned her political science background as an advantage—legislative analysis inside Parliament, commercial law research, and policy brief drafting. Her paralegal work demonstrated contract compliance expertise. Her content coordination showed persuasive writing and logical argumentation which are core legal skills. We showed Nottingham someone bringing both legal foundation and policy perspective
The Candidate
A Vietnam-based LLB graduate from a UK-affiliated program, graduating with First Class Honors (3.9/4.0 GPA). Her profile combined public sector legal exposure, corporate legal training inside a major financial institution, and hands-on intellectual property work in the entertainment and digital economy. Her academic focus sat at the intersection of law and technology, with research interests spanning AI and intellectual property as well as complex regulatory questions in emerging areas of law.
The Challenge
On paper, she looked like multiple strong candidates in one: international and policy work, banking and corporate law, courtroom exposure, IP disputes, licensing, trademarks, and two distinct research tracks. Without a unifying strategy, that range risked reading as scattered rather than specialized.
At the same time, her SOP led with a sophisticated thesis: viral culture creates value on internet speed, but copyright systems were not designed for platforms where creativity spreads through fragments, remixes, and rapid replication. The insight was excellent, but it needed a tighter positioning so an admissions committee would instantly see a clear lane and a clear purpose for an LLM.
The Strategy
IBS built the application around one core narrative: a future law and technology specialist focused on intellectual property, digital markets, and cross jurisdiction regulation.
We anchored her personal statement with a precise legal question and made sure every experience served as evidence. That meant:
• Turning her policy and treaty exposure into proof of cross-border legal reasoning and regulatory fluency.
• Framing her corporate legal training as readiness for rigorous legal analysis, high-volume file management, and commercial judgment.
• Positioning her entertainment and IP work as real-world experience with licensing,
trademarks, and copyright conflict in fast-moving creative markets.
• Connecting her research into a coherent scholarly direction focused on how law should govern innovation, authorship, and ownership in the age of AI and platform virality.
The final package read with clarity: not “interests in many things,” but a lawyer building depth in one of the most urgent areas of modern law.
The Result
Admitted to UC Berkeley School of Law for the LLM.
A profile that originally looked broad became sharply legible: a candidate with academic rigor, demonstrated legal impact, and a defined specialization aligned with a top law and technology ecosystem.
Priscilla S.
Berkeley JD
Meet Our Law Student In Residence
Emma A.
Columbia JD Candidate
Emmanuella Antwi-Buosiako is a J.D. candidate at Columbia Law School, with an expected graduation date of May 2026.
At Columbia, she served as the Co-President of the Columbia Society of International Law, a 2L Senator in the Student Senate, and a Staffer for the Human Rights Law Review. She also worked as a Teaching Assistant for Criminal Law. She previously graduated cum laude from The College of New Jersey with a degree in Political Science.
Emmanuella has a specific interest in criminal and international law. Her legal experience includes a Summer Associate position at Freshfields, where she conducted research and drafted submissions for asylum cases. She also completed a Criminal Prosecution Externship with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, focusing on federal case law and trial strategy. Additionally, she served as a Summer Legal Intern in the Special Victims Unit at the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, where she drafted motions and assisted with criminal investigations.
Before law school, she worked as a Communications Specialist for the NJ Senate Democratic Office and as an Assistant to the CEO for the YWCA of Northern New Jersey.
“As a first-generation student who grew up in Ghana, applying to MBA programs at Imperial College and Warwick both excited and frightened me. But working with my assigned consultant, Naa, helped me see how powerful my experiences had been and how they were relevant to my desired program. I work at Goldman Sachs now & my MBA offer was instrumental. “