Law School Goes Remote: Sandy Hudson on Tackling 1L Year During a Pandemic

Law School Goes Remote: Sandy Hudson on Tackling 1L Year During a Pandemic

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Rising UCLA 2L, grassroots organizer, and political strategist Sandy Hudson joins Branden and Jelena to talk about law school’s abrupt transition to distance learning in the face of COVID-19.

In this episode:

  1. Walk through a day in the life of a law student learning from home
  2. Learn how students scattered around the world are banding together to get through finals
  3. Find out what’s happening to law review write-ons, OCI, and more during lockdown
  4. Discover the surprising positives of this unexpected, drastic change
  5. Hear an update on (some) law schools’ plans for Fall 2020
  6. Get Sandy’s been-there-done-that advice for rising 1Ls contemplating starting law school from home in the fall

Links and further resources from from this week’s episode:


Sandy's Podcast: Sandy & Nora Talk Politics - https://sandyandnora.com/


Sandy Hudson on Twitter - https://twitter.com/sandela


California Public Universities Announce Fall 2020 Plans - https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/us/california-universities-fall-online/index.html


Start Your 1L Free Trial Now! - https://go.onelink.me/iOM8/68e2c335


The Paper Chase Opening Scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx22TyCge7w&feature=youtu.be


The Paper Chase Full Movie - https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-paper-chase/id271653326


One L (The Novel that Inspired The Paper Chase) - https://www.amazon.com/One-Turbulent-Story-Harvard-School/dp/0143119028/


Start Your LSATMax Free Trial - https://go.onelink.me/z1Zu/689fb4b4


Start Your BarMax Free Trial Now! - https://go.onelink.me/3011142272/d02ba2de

Hosts

Jelena Woehr

Jelena Woehr

Jelena was born & raised in Golden, CO. There she cut her teeth on logic by getting into, then out of, an impressive amount of trouble. When not organizing student protests or lobbying the school board, Jelena competed in equestrian sports & constitutional debate. Jelena took the June 2017 LSAT, partly out of curiosity and partly because she developed a serious Logic Games addiction. After three months of study, Jelena achieved a score of 178. While she didn't end up falling in love with law school, she did find herself really enjoying the LSAT—so much that she left her previous career in tech startups behind and began teaching. Jelena prides herself on helping her students understand not just the systems and methods they can apply to get a good score, but the underlying logic & its applicability to the challenge of learning to think like a law student. Outside of her work with the LSAT, Jelena is a writer, creative content producer, & a competitive equestrian endurance rider.

Branden Frankel

Branden Frankel

In 2000, Branden graduated with a BA in Philosophy from UC Santa Barbara. For a few years after, he cast about in vain for entry-level philosopher positions, but, when he was visited by the Ghost of Student Loans Past, he knew it was time to make a change. In June 2006, Branden took the LSAT, scoring a 175. Thereafter, he attended UCLA School of Law, graduating in 2010 and practicing patent law for several years. Since 2013, he has taught dozens of live LSAT classes and tutored scores of successful test takers. When he's not considering the finer points of a particularly tricky Logical Reasoning question or kicking it with his daughter, Branden writes Science Fiction. You can find him after work at the local Starbucks, typing furiously, then deleting what he typed, then typing more, and so on for hours.


Guests

Sandy Hudson

Sandy Hudson

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Mehran Ebadolahi

Mehran Ebadolahi

Mehran Ebadolahi graduated summa cum laude from UCLA in 2004 with a B.A. in Business Economics and a minor in Accounting. The first time he took a practice LSAT, he scored a 148, which made him seriously reconsider his law school dreams. Through hard work and perseverance, however, he was eventually able to score a 174 on the December 2004 LSAT and he has been an LSAT instructor/private tutor ever since. In 2010, Mehran graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School. It was during his time at HLS that he co-founded BarMax (“the $1000 app”) in an effort to disrupt the bar exam prep space that had long been a monopoly. Since graduating from HLS, Mehran has continued to work on BarMax (now TestMax, Inc.) full-time and he is currently the CEO of the company.

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