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he Law School paid In addition, several members of the Class like to wake up and sit through a four-

each student who at- of 2013 said they beneitted from taking hour course during the bar summer.
New York Law in National Perspectives. We were presented material from both
tended all ive sessions
Cortney Nadolney ’13 said, “I took
BarBri and Pieper which allowed us to
the course with Professor Burkhalter. choose which teaching method worked
$500, which they could
[Associate Dean Archer] insisted it would for us.”
then apply to a summer be worth my time. hat it was! National
Lailah Hanit Pepe ’13
bar review course. his Perspectives allowed students to come
into bar prep with an understanding of
added incentive was a said, “I greatly
the exam and what it took to pass the test.
key to the success of the appreciated NYLS
We knew how to study for it by learning
program: 302 students, the bar exam method. We were taught adding additional

methods that worked for us and methods sections of New York
54 percent of the class, that did not work for us so we did not
Law in National
participated.
have to waste our time learning this once
the summer began.”
Perspectives ater

“Jump Start ofered our students
learning the correlation
Nadolney, an associate attorney at
early feedback on their performance
Colucci, Colucci, Marcus & Flavin, P.C.
on practice questions, allowing them
between taking the
in Milton, Mass., added, “When I was
an opportunity to focus on areas for studying with BarBri, this was not the class and past bar exam
improvement before starting formal bar
irst time I was learning this material. I success. Professor
prep,” said Associate Dean Archer. “Ater knew exactly how to answer the question
graduation, they were able to hit the Burkhalter prepared
because Professor Burkhalter had taught
ground running and make the most of us. He also demystiied the exam. It
us for the intensity of
their bar prep courses.”
was no longer this scary, overwhelming the work ahead, while
endeavor but something that could
In addition, said Professor Burkhalter
“Students in the bottom third of class be accomplished with hard work. He encouraging us to fully
inspired us to believe in ourselves.”
were paired with faculty mentors,” who commit to our own
ofered individualized support.
She also observed, “As part of my success. I know that

Several members of the Class of 2013 Perspectives course, we were required to this class contributed to
attend the Jump Start program. I have
praised the Jump Start program. Eberle my bar exam passage by
Schultz ’13 said, “It helped to get me in to say it was the best thing for us. We
were able to be exposed to material that laying the foundation
the mind frame of bar preparation, and
got me thinking about it earlier than I we had not seen since irst year. Most for the crucial multistate
importantly, we saw what it would be
would have.” Now a law clerk in the New
York Oice of O’Melveny & Myers LLP,

Schultz said the Jump Start program
“identiied some of the places where I

might need work. One area was criminal
procedure, where I had never taken a class.”

Samantha Delao ’13 said that the Jump
Start program “sets you up with rigorous

schedule in a full day of bar prep.” She
noted that she didn’t have lawyers in her

family and didn’t know what bar prep
would be like. But, she said, when she

took a commercial bar prep course last
summer with the experience of Jump Start

under her belt, “On the irst essay I got
graded I got a 7, unlike some people on

law review at other schools,” who received

much lower grades.

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