George Gordon's School of Law is a private, pre-arranged, invitation-only school located in the heart of the Missouri Ozarks. This school has a number of classes that are aimed at one or both of the two goals of the school: enabling someone to competently represent him/herself in the civil court system, and teaching individuals the theory and practice of the Mosaic Law found in the Scriptures. George has not sought, nor would he accept, government accreditation or funding for this school; in fact, he has turned down offers of accreditation so that he can continue to teach things in his own fashion without government interference, as an individual.
George, oftimes called the 'Godfather of the Common Law' by the media, has been teaching people over twenty years now, sixteen of them in Isabella, Missouri. He has had literally thousands of people come to a town so small that it doesn't show up on many maps. And you ask, "Why?" The reason is that his students succeed. Of those who have gone through his classes, for example, only a few (less than twenty that we know of) have lost tax cases that they've been involved in, and those few either came to class after a grand jury had handed down an indictment and/or ignored what George taught them and hired a lawyer instead. This is an unprecedented record, especially when one considers that law is essentially a zero-sum game where you have to have a loser for every winner. And remember, prosecutors usually don't file charges until they're pretty sure they can win, so the percentage of cases, especially tax cases, won by the government is extremely high, over 90% in many courts. We admit that in most of these cases you can't find them by name or case number because we consider a win in tax court (for example) to consist of meeting 3 goals: (1) avoiding jail; (2) retaining use of your assets; and (3) solving the problem of harassment from then on through a change in status, not rebellion. George's students are over 90% successful in attaining those three goals in tax cases. Not too bad when you consider that lawyers, either criminal or civil, lose about 94% of their cases. Even pro se litigants, on the average, don't do too much better, losing about 84% of their cases. But, a national legal publication noted that trained pro se litigants average a 90% win rate.
George keeps class sizes low (about 6 students) to allow each student time for individual attention. We believe in quality, not quantity. Also, since no two people come from the same background, have the same problems, or wish to obtain the same goals, we've found that individual attention is not merely good, it's essential for success.
There are 'George Gordon wanna-bes' out there, duplicating George's material, but the classroom portion, i.e. the attention paid to each and every student, is missing from their attempts to copy George; often we find the entire point of doing something is missing, with people being told "Just do it, because that's what you have to do. You don't have to understand why." We've found that if you want to be successful, you do what successful people do and understand why they do it. If you want to be a winner like George, you have to do what he does, not just a little here and a little there. It may be hard, but it works. The wanna-be's tend to leave out both the explanations and the hard parts, either because they don't understand it or they've decided that it's more marketable if it's easier.
George Gordon's School of Common Law offers a number of different classes, some brief descriptions of which follow. If you're interested in a specific class, you can find more information by going to the Catalog of Classes section, and clicking on the one(s) you want.
Title 42 Class: a one-week seminar covering monetary compensation for redress of grievances committed by (un)civil servants.
Basic Courtroom Strategy & Procedure Class: a two-week seminar covering the step-by-step procedures followed in both civil and criminal courts, and both civil code pleading and common law pleas.
Status & Tax Class: a one-week seminar covering your legal status, how it affects you, and what you can do about it. This is not an 'untaxing' class and is not about breaking the law but, rather, about regaining your lost rights.
The Mosaic Law Class: a week-long seminar offered twice annually, covering all the Scriptural Laws - codified, arranged alphabetically, and printed in their entirety. It also includes the approximately 360 pivotal Supreme Court cases dealing with religious free exercise. This provides you with the material you need to go into court and argue any Scripturally-based stand using the Bible as a law book.
Professsional Class: a one-week seminar for individuals who have left, or are leaving, the licenses, permits, and other connecting links to the government behind. This class teaches you to function in today's economic world successfully.
Subsistence & Survival Class: a one-week seminar covering basic survival skills like killing and butchering a cow, then canning it (hands-on experience, as it's done as a class). It also covers the 64 life threatening scenarios laid out in Scripture. Are you aware of what we're facing, how you can prepare for it, and survive it? It does no good to prepare for 63 scenarios and miss number 64.
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