How are sessions conducted?
All sessions are conducted remotely via video call. I work with students nationwide across all UBE and NextGen jurisdictions. Sessions run in full-hour blocks — whole hours only, no half-hours — and you choose the length, one to three hours. I suggest one or two. Two three-hour proctored mock exams are included in every package and do not come out of your hours.
Sessions are pre-scheduled, not booked one at a time: we agree your weekly times at the consultation, they go into your contract, and they are yours for the cycle. Need to move one, or add hours in a heavy week? Ask, and I fit you in where I have room. If I move one of your times, the first incurs no consequence for me, just as you get two free no-shows, and every one after that gets you two free hours, or $150 back on Unlimited. The calendar on this page is for consultations, and consultations only.
What if I need to cancel a session, or miss one?
Canceling is always free. Any word before fifteen minutes into the session — a text, an email, one line — makes it a cancellation: no fee, no hour deducted, no cap on how often, and no reason required. I will not ask for one. It counts from the moment you send it, whatever time I see it.
A no-show is different. If fifteen minutes pass and I have heard nothing, that is a no-show. Your first two carry no consequence, and I tell you the count after each so the third never surprises you. On the third, your committed times are released to someone else and any refund window still open closes. Your hours remain yours to use at times I have open, but I can no longer promise your old times, or any committed time. Agreement §7
What I will still do after a missed session is call you within 24 hours to check that you are all right. That is not a collection call. Managing remote teams at TurboTax Live taught me that someone disappearing off a calendar is occasionally a sign that something has gone badly wrong and nobody has noticed yet. It is how I have worked for years, and it is one of the things you are welcome to ask my references about.
Do I need to use a specific bar review course?
No. I work with students regardless of what (if any) commercial bar review they're using. My tutoring and tools complement any existing preparation — or can serve as your primary preparation if you prefer a more personalized approach.
Do you prepare students for the NextGen bar exam?
Yes. I tutor for both the current UBE and NextGen, and the Command Center has a dedicated NextGen Prep track: questions in the new formats, integrated question sets, and performance tasks. Which exam you sit depends on your jurisdiction and when you sit it; we confirm that at the consultation, and your preparation follows it. More on NextGen →
What if I've already failed the bar exam?
Repeat takers are who this practice is built for. Failing the bar doesn't mean you can't pass it — it usually means the approach needs to change, not the effort. I start with a diagnostic review of your prior attempt to identify what went wrong and build from there.
What does the free consultation include?
A candid conversation about where you are, what you need, and whether I'm the right fit. I'll give you my honest assessment — including if I think you'd be better served by a different type of preparation. There's no obligation and no sales pitch.
Do you offer accommodations for students with disabilities?
Absolutely — accessibility is central to everything I build. All of my tools are designed with ADA accommodations as a core feature. I also help students navigate the accommodation request process with their jurisdiction's bar examiners.
What about cost?
No “call for a quote.” There is one thing to buy: the Full Prep Package, $2,000–$5,000 depending on hours, with Bar Exam Command Center access and the pass guarantee included rather than sold on top. There is no per-session option and no smaller way to start — a full refund through your fourth hour is what makes that safe to say yes to. The three tiers, in full →
How does payment work?
Two payments, and that is the whole bill. Half the package price is due when you book — $1,000, $1,500 or $2,500 by tier. It holds the weekly times in your contract; once it clears, I create your Command Center login and email you a link to set your password. The other half is due by your fourth hour; I invoice it after your third hour, or before any session that would deliver your fourth. No per-session invoices, no card on file, and nothing ever owed beyond the package price.
After our consultation I send the agreement by DocuSign with your tier and your weekly times written in. Sign it, and the deposit invoice follows from Square. When it is paid, your Command Center login is created — there is no self-service signup. The refund window, and how stopping works →
What happens once I enroll?
Before our first session, you complete and return a diagnostic exam. I send back a full, item-by-item score report and a personalized study plan — at no charge — so our very first hour goes straight at your real weaknesses instead of warming up. No fluff, no generic syllabus.
What if I want to stop, or defer?
You stop by telling me. Your sessions are pre-booked into your committed weekly times, so there is nothing to stop booking — instead you send one message saying you’re done, and I release everything still on your calendar. No form, no explanation owed. Until your fourth hour is delivered you can also ask for a refund, and every dollar you have paid comes back within 10 calendar days, counted from the day after you send it. After the fourth hour the package is yours and is not refundable, but the hours you haven’t used never expire, so stopping later costs nothing further.
Deferral is separate, also no questions asked, and unbounded: if life means you need to sit a later exam — whenever that turns out to be — the hours you haven’t used and your Command Center access wait for you. How stopping and deferring meet the pass guarantee →
What’s the catch? Why is all the risk on you?
Not a hidden one, but you are right to ask — and “trust me” is not an answer, so here is the actual one.
Risk should sit with whoever is better placed to carry it, and between the two of us that isn’t close. I have an admission, a teaching appointment, and a practice that survives a bad month. You have one exam, one timeline, and a career waiting on one result. Putting the financial risk of my turning out to be the wrong fit onto you would be backwards. So I don’t.
You can check the first half of that yourself, which is the point of saying it: my New York admission is public record, my Fall 2026 Hofstra course is in the University’s public class schedule right now (LAW 3795, CRN 94115), and the whole agreement is published before you pay a cent.
What if we end up in a dispute?
Worth knowing before you pay rather than after. Disputes go to individual arbitration instead of a jury, and you agree not to join a class action. That is a genuine right you are giving up, and I would rather say so plainly than let you find it in a clause later.
What sits on the other side of it: I pay the arbitration fees, all of them. Every hearing runs by video or phone — I have a mobility disability that makes travel to in-person proceedings impracticable, this is a remote practice, and neither of us travels to be heard. If your own disability means that does not work for you, say so and we settle a format that accommodates us both. Small claims court stays open to either of us, and anything that does belong in court goes to your home courts — which binds me the same way it binds you. Before any of that, we just talk: thirty days to resolve it directly, a required first step rather than a suggestion. Agreement §18 · Terms §12