Here's Why I Created this Course

For almost two decades, I've been a law professor and served as director of an academic success and bar preparation department at an ABA law school. During this time, I saw the same problem again and again: law schools rarely teach students how to organize, learn, and write for law school in a clear, step‑by‑step way.

Instead of showing students how to study before classes begin, most schools scatter the teaching of individual “study skills” throughout the semester. Students are left trying to connect the dots on their own, often in the middle of an overwhelming first semester when the stakes feel highest.

To close this gap, I set out to create an all‑inclusive approach to learning in law school that could be used at the outset of the semester or implemented at any time during the semester. One where sudents didn't have to guess how to study. But I did not want to present my personal method as the only way to succeed, because no single person’s habits work for every student. So I conducted two qualitative phenomenological studies of highly successful law students to uncover the study systems they used to finish at the top of their class.

Through in‑depth interviews and a close review of their study materials, I uncovered a detailed picture of every skill today's students use to understand, organize, and articulate class concepts in both discussion and writing. From there, I removed redundancies across their processes and combined the remaining skills into one comprehensive system for organizing, learning, and writing class topics on exams. That system became my book, Nine Steps to Law School Success: A Scientifically Proven Study Process for Success in Law School (second edition coming in 2026).

In 2020, I founded the Law School Success Institute, a national law school prep company, to support students beyond the law school where I taught.

Using my research data, I transformed the nine step study process from my book into my flagship course, The Law School Operating System™. Today I work directly with law students and partner with law schools nationwide to teach this course in live, virtual, and recorded formats. I also offer unlimited coaching sessions throughout the year.

I have watched students transform their confidence, sharpen their legal analysis, and hit academic goals they know they are capable of. The results are nothing short of remarkable.

Beyond teaching, I am a personal injury attorney of twenty years, co‑owner of my Southern California law firm, and I serve on the boards of several nonprofits that support pre‑law and law students. These roles keep me closely connected to both legal education and legal practice, so what I teach is grounded in the realities of the profession.

You can succeed in law school. You are worthy of your seat. My mission is to give you the system, structure, and support to prove it to yourself. Join me today!