Miami · May 2026 · studying for the Bar

Blake Houston

JD candidate at Miami who picked up coding along the way and making things.

JudgeAI· CasebookSwap· Curious by default

About

A JD candidate at the University of Miami, finishing this spring. I read more than I'd care to admit, and somewhere along the way I taught myself to code well enough to build two products end-to-end while still in law school.

The career interest is transactional — credit agreements, M&A, the slow careful drafting. The building habit started as a side effect of reading too many opinions on a laptop and wishing the tools were better. It didn't really stop.

Off the clock

This month

Now

  • Bar prepMEE outlines and MBE drills four times a week.
  • JudgeAIBuilding the bench-memo workflow — judge plus motion type in, draft worth filing out.
  • CasebookBuilding new features daily

Bookshelf

  • How Judges Think
    How Judges Think
    Richard Posner
    ▸ reading
  • Common Law Tradition
    The Common Law Tradition
    Karl Llewellyn
    ▸ reading
  • Designing Data-Intensive
    Designing Data-Intensive Apps
    Martin Kleppmann
    ◐ on deck
  • Tartine Bread
    Tartine Bread
    Chad Robertson
    ◑ kitchen

Contact

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