About Us
Attorneys, Professors, English Teachers, Innovators, Linguists…
Director of the LLM in American Law Program at Seton Hall | Legal English Educator | Bar Exam Specialist
Daniel Edelson is a legal educator with a deep commitment to helping international lawyers and law students succeed in U.S. legal education and practice. He currently serves as Director of the LLM in American Law Program at Seton Hall Law School, where he also teaches legal writing and academic success courses.
With over a decade of experience supporting JD and LLM students, Daniel specializes in U.S. legal writing instruction, case reading skills, bar exam preparation, and Legal English education. He is the founder of USLawEssentials LLC, an online platform offering tailored courses and tutoring for international law students, with a focus on clarity, structure, and effective communication in legal contexts.
Daniel’s teaching style blends practical skill-building with structured, accessible instruction.
He has taught US law and legal English to students around the world and has lived and worked in Japan and South Korea.
In addition to his teaching experience, Daniel practiced business litigation in New York and New Jersey for more than 15 years.
You can connect with him on LinkedIn here.
Email him at Daniel at uslawessentials dot com
Lecturer, Georgetown Law | Legal English Specialist | Linguist
Stephen Horowitz, a professor of Legal English at Georgetown Law, appreciates student-centered teaching, active learning, and creative approaches to integrating the learning of law and language. He also enjoys developing unique and high quality online legal English curriculum. In addition to serving as editor for the Georgetown Legal English Blog (which includes the Legal English Resources page), Stephen is the administrator for the ETLEP Google Group (listserv for the global legal English community), and co-host of the USLawEssentials Law & Language podcast. He previously served as Director of Legal English Programs at St. John’s Law School and prior to that worked as a corporate bankruptcy lawyer in New York. He is a graduate of Duke Law and also taught English in Japan in the mid-1990s on the Japan Exchange Teaching (JET) Program. Stephen currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the JET Alumni Association USA and is an avid ultimate frisbee player having played in tournaments all across the U.S. and around the world.
US Law and Legal English for Everyone. Everywhere.
Thank you sincerely for your invaluable guidance! I consider myself extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity to attend this course over the past weeks and get to know both of you. You have truly done an outstanding job.
Some Things We Created…
Specialized Training Programs
For any legal topic or legal English skill. we can develop tailored programs for individuals and groups,
Legal English Assessments
We created a unique legal English assessment to measure students’ ability to use English in legal contexts.
Faculty Training & Curriculum Design
We have provided numerous Legal English trainings and advised on Legal English curriculum design.
Pre-LLM Courses
We create and teach online legal English courses to help international law students and attorneys learn substantive areas of US law, legal writing, case reading skills, and related legal English.
Bar Prep Courses
We teach bar prep courses to help international law students learn substantive areas of US law, and legal writing to enable them to succeed on the bar exam. The courses focus on bar prep and legal English,
Innovative Content
We developed student-centered videos, podcasts, synchronous/asynchronous course content, including AI interactive materials, to enable students to engage with sophisticated, yet accessible educational material.