— An editorial guide for new arrivals
A platform for immigrants adapting to American legal, fiscal, and everyday systems. Read carefully, decide calmly, ask later.
From the author
I have practised law for twenty-three years — first in Russia, then for over a decade in the United States. The courses on this site are the exact briefing I wish someone had handed me on the day I arrived.
Andrey Stolbunov
RU bar 2003 · LLM, University of Dayton · 12 years in the US
What this platform does
Same promises a thoughtful friend who has lived here would make — and exactly the ones a generic course never delivers.
The American system has a logic. Once you see it, the paperwork stops feeling random.
Documents are not traps. They are interfaces. We teach the interface so the substance becomes legible.
Most situations do not need a lawyer. The few that do, we name explicitly.
How it works
No verification click, no card. Your dashboard opens the moment you submit.
One bilingual lesson. The shape of the American legal map, in plain language.
Buy Level 1 outright, or subscribe for the rolling catalog. No upsell anywhere inside lessons.
We mark the exact moments when education ends and a licensed attorney begins.
Contents
A free intro, a purchasable Level 1, and a subscription-only tax module. Every lesson is written, not generated — sober prose, no slogans.
Eighteen minutes that change how you think about American law. Four short lessons, one map you walk away with.
How the US legal system actually works for people who live here.
LLC, sole prop, or S-corp — what they cost, what they require, what wakes you up at 3am.
How to read your first US tax forms without panic.
How credit scores form, why your foreign credit does not count, and the boring routines that build a 750.
Common questions
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Fifteen minutes. One bilingual lesson. The most useful free overview of American legal and financial systems we know how to write.