Why do I have to take the LSAT, anyway?

Why do I have to take the LSAT, anyway?

Show notes

Welcome to The Legal Level!

In our debut episode, Branden and Jelena discuss:

  1. How COVID-19 has affected the LSAT
  2. What the LSAT has to do with law school and being a lawyer
  3. How your Logical Reasoning skills will help you survive 1L
  4. Why Logic Games aren’t really as abstract as they seem
  5. What to do when you hate Reading Comp so much you can’t focus
  6. When to worry about “Character & Fitness” (hint: you’re probably OK)
  7. How to tackle a particularly thorny Argument Completion question


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

  • LSAC Coronavirus Update - https://www.lsac.org/update-coronavirus-and-lsat
  • April LSAT Exam Change Request - https://www.lsac.org/update-coronavirus-and-lsat/april-2020-test-date-changes
  • 2020-2021 LSAT Dates - https://www.lsac.org/lsat/lsat-dates-deadlines-score-release-dates/lsat-dates
  • June 2007 LSAT PDF - https://testmaxprep.com/lsat/free-lsat-prep/practice-test
  • Start Your LSATMax Free Trial Now! - https://go.onelink.me/z1Zu/689fb4b4
  • Enroll in LSATMax's #1-Ranked LSAT Course: https://testmaxprep.com/lsat/select-course
  • LSATMax's Private LSAT Tutoring: https://testmaxprep.com/lsat/tutoring
  • Start Your 1L Free Trial Now! - https://go.onelink.me/iOM8/68e2c335
  • 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

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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Jessica Carlsen

Jessica Carlsen

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