All Get Prepped
teachers are law school students or graduates and many are practicing
attorneys. We are the only LSAT prep company for which this is
true. At other prep companies the instructors may be undergraduates
and may have no intention of applying to or attending law school.
- All our teachers
have scored above (usually well-above) the 94th percentile on
an official LSAT administered by LSAC. Other companies allow their
job applicants to take non-authentic LSATs in the company office
to qualify to teach. The instructors at those companies may never
take an official LSAT.
- Many of our
teachers have taught LSAT prep courses for other prep companies
before switching to Get Prepped. Others have taught undergraduate
and graduate-level academic courses.
- All our teachers
have distinguished academic backgrounds. They have earned honors
in their undergraduate, graduate, and legal studies from the nation's
top universities and many have also earned graduate degrees.
Featured Teacher — Kevin Mawn
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“My teaching philosophy is to simplify things, and to teach students how to make the logic games as "visual" as possible by drawing physical representations of rules whenever possible.
I started with GetPrepped in late 2001, and have taught an LSAT class for GetPrepped for all but three LSATs since then. I have made a serious "2nd career" out of LSAT teaching and tutoring. ” |
“. . . I immediately felt like the class was worth the money because of the instructor Kevin Mawn's knowledge and ability to work through problems and answer any questions.” — C. Smith
“. . . the course was amazing and so was the teacher.” -- J. Holsey
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More Teachers:
Amanda Ylitalo - SMU Dedman Law, 2010. LSAT score - 170.
Get Prepped teacher since 2008. “I enjoy teaching this test, because I love hearing, 'was this question a lot easier than normal?' – it is proof that following a method really works. This test isn't about being smarter than the next person, it's about fine-tuning a way of thinking. The minute that way of thinking becomes second nature for a student is when I know they are going to succeed.”
Rob Brind - Duke University Law School '99, University of Pennsylvania '96.
LSAT score - 99th percentile. Taught for other national test- preparation
firms for five years. Get Prepped teacher since 2008. Rob is a professional
on-line poker player. He tutors because the pencil and paper work
of logic games in the presence of live human beings is an excellent
break from his faux felt-and-clay "day job".
Nick Brindle
- Vanderbilt University Law School '03. Vanderbilt University '99.
LSAT score - 99th percentile. Get Prepped teacher since 2005. Nick
was a neurochemist before he retired from the bright lights and
fast-living of neuroscience to become an attorney for the State
of Tennessee.
Beth Broderick
- Brooklyn Law School '08. Columbia University '04. LSAT score -
96th percentile. Get Prepped teacher since 2008. Beth is an amateur
chef and wine lover in Brooklyn, and no, this is not a personals
ad.
Melissa Chiang
- University of Chicago Law School, '05. UCLA '98. LSAT score -
99th percentile. Get Prepped teacher since 2007. Taught college-level
Latin and has been tutoring since she was in high school. She would
do logic games for a living if she could; teaching the LSAT is the
next best thing.
Chet Dingler
- University of Texas Law School '96. University of Texas - '90.
LSAT score - 98th percentile. Get Prepped teacher since 2006. As
a trial lawyer in private practice, he does mostly plaintiff's civil
litigation. Texas born and bred, Chet is a member of MENSA and breeds
angelfish as a hobby, which makes him a very clever Texan angelfish wrangler.
Christopher
Eastwood - Brigham Young University Law School '07. City University
'03. LSAT score - 98th percentile. Get Prepped teacher since 2005.
Christopher owns a company selling computer software to attorneys
and also practices law in Washington State.
Gabe Greisbaum
- University of Texas Law School '08. University of Texas '04.
LSAT score - 99th percentile. Get Prepped teacher since 2005. He
likes to teach the LSAT because it is fun. Currently he is trying
his hand at fiction writing, because he thinks being an author is
more fun than practicing law. Unfortunately, starvation is never
really off the table.
Don Howard
- University of Miami Law School '92. University of North Carolina,
Greensboro '82. LSAT score - 99th percentile. Get Prepped teacher
since 2006. He switched from trumpet to guitar after realizing that
it made singing and playing at the same time easier, a fact that
family and friends had been hiding from him for years.
Arkady Itkin
- McGeorge School of Law '07. San Francisco State University
'04. LSAT score - 99th percentile. Get Prepped teacher since 2007.
Currently a litigation attorney in the Bay area. In his spare time
he likes to read, run, and play tennis.
Blaine Jackson
- University of Arkansas Law School '79. University of Arkansas
'70. LSAT score - 99th percentile. Get Prepped teacher since 2005.
His lengthy resume includes: serving as a judge, teaching college
legal-studies and critical-thinking courses, and volunteering as
a wilderness rescue instructor. In his free time he goes offroading
in his '85 Jeep, cooks, plays poker, and spends time with his grandchildren.
Aliza Kaliski
- Northwestern Law School '05. University of California, Berkeley
'01. Taught for other national test-preparation firm. LSAT score
- 99th percentile. Get Prepped teacher since 2005. Despite living
in Chicago, Aliza is not a fan of winter; however, she is an avid
fan of coffee and Cal football.
Laurie Landsittel - University of Georgia
School of Law '03. North Carolina State University '99. LSAT score - 95th percentile.
Get Prepped teacher since 2008. By day, she is a public defender in courth, by night she is a caped crusader saving the world. During what little spare time afforded to a public defender/caped crusader, she enjoys reading and traveling.
Patrick
O'Malley - University of Colorado Law
School '01. Colorado College '94. LSAT score - 98th percentile.
Get Prepped teacher since 1999. Author of several LSAT prep text
books. On weekends he is a high-altitude off-road triathlete, on
Mondays, he is sore.
Lauren
Shine - Cumberland School of Law '05,
University of Alabama at Birmingham '00. LSAT score - 95th percentile.
Get Prepped teacher since 2003. Lauren is ten toes down in the Midsouth,
but not even sticking one of them in the Mississippi River by her
house.
Craig
Smith - Indiana University Law School
'08. University of Wisconsin '03. LSAT score - 95th percentile.
Get Prepped teacher since 2006. Craig is a deputy prosecuting attorney
in the child support division. The most important lesson he
teaches his LSAT students is how to master the logic games. The
most important lesson he wishes the people of Monroe County would
learn is that they should always use protection.
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