Manhattan LSAT Teachers

When it comes to teaching the LSAT, a 99th percentile score is not enough. It is the strength and experience of our teaching team that enables students to fully enjoy the Manhattan LSAT Advantage.

Mary Adkins

Manhattan LSAT Teacher - Mary Adkins

Mary graduated from Duke University and moved to Brooklyn to become a playwright. Instead, she became a bartender. Two years tending bar and a dozen administrative gigs later, she decided to...

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Laura Baragona

Manhattan LSAT Teacher - Laura Baragona

Like so many others who have taken the LSAT, Laura began her relationship with the exam while completing an undergraduate degree in a field that seemed unnervingly unlikely to produce a viable career. As graduation loomed...

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John Beer

Manhattan LSAT Teacher - John Beer

If you don’t see John in a classroom, you’re most likely to run into him at a theater. As a theater writer for Time Out Chicago, he spends several nights a week checking out the latest productions at Steppenwolf and scrappy storefront start-ups...

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Allison Bell

Manhattan LSAT Teacher - Allison Bell

Allison first encountered the LSAT while getting her Bachelor of Arts at Duke University. Nearing the end of her long, winding, and terrifying journey toward a career decision, she took the LSAT and considered applying for law school. As a result...

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Brian Birdwell

Manhattan LSAT Teacher - Brian Birdwell

With 99th percentile scores on the GMAT, LSAT, and GRE, plus a decade's experience teaching these and other standardized tests, Brian has been around the test-prep block ...

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Demetri Blaisdell

Manhattan LSAT Teacher - Demetri Blaisdell

A native of the Bay Area, Demetri can't figure out why anyone would leave the Golden State to go to college. He studied political science and Arabic (more on this later) at UCLA, but learned far more about the world and himself while...

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Patrick Brown

Manhattan LSAT Teacher - Patrick Brown

James Patrick Brown (he goes by Patrick, because he’s not the Godfather of Soul) was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He went to Georgetown University, where he studied history, and wrote his senior thesis about...the history of Scranton.

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Kimberly Cabot

Manhattan LSAT Teacher - Kimberly Cabot

Growing up, Kim was “blessed” with three brothers – a fact that resulted in a childhood environment of virtually perpetual debate.  Whether defending her lunchtime choice of fish sticks over sloppy joes or arguing her equal right to watch...

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Gilad Edelman

Manhattan LSAT Teacher - Gilad Edelman

Gilad is yet another Manhattan LSAT team member leading a double life: LSAT teacher by day, jazz saxophonist by night.  After graduating from Columbia with a degree in American History, he packed up his sax and his 180 LSAT score and moved to...

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Dmitry Farber

Manhattan LSAT Teacher - Dmitry Farber

Dmitry Farber began his teaching career in the test prep world, teaching SAT, GMAT, and LSAT for several years before entering elementary education. He has been teaching at San Diego Cooperative Charter School since...

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Dan Gonzalez

Manhattan LSAT teacher - Dan Gonzalez

Dan Gonzalez graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in engineering. While teaching high school physics at Milton Academy, he began meeting with private students to help with test prep, math, physics, and...

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Angela Guido

Manhattan LSAT teacher - Angela Guido

Angela began her teaching career after graduating from Yale with a degree in philosophy. She taught her first classes in English as a second language in Seoul, South Korea at...

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Ian Jorgeson

Manhattan LSAT teacher - Ian Jorgeson

Ian has been helping students prepare for the LSAT for 10 years.  Ian is a true LSAT geek and loves to take new tests whenever they're released.  During this time Ian has worked with hundreds of students in Austin, Boston, and Seoul, South Korea, in...

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Mike Kim

Manhattan LSAT teacher - Mike Kim

Mike Kim realized early on that he had a knack for standardized exams, and began teaching the SAT while still in high school. Sure, Mike's love of logic puzzles and advanced math concepts ensured that he would have a packed social ...

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Stacey Koprince

Manhattan LSAT teacher - Stacey Koprince

If you wander into Stacey's family room, you'll always find a few Games magazines scattered around, as well as at least one magazine dedicated entirely to logic games. These aren't to help her become a better LSAT teacher; she just enjoys...

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Jerry McMillan

Manhattan LSAT teacher - Jerry McMillan

By day, Gerald defends the innocent as mild-mannered Assistant Attorney General McMillan. By night, he cloaks himself in shadow and jurisprudence to bring justice to the streets (or at least forge a new class of legal superhero through...

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Stephanie Moyerman

Manhattan LSAT teacher - Stephanie Moyerman

Stephanie began teaching in college as a physics tutor, math tutor, lab TA, and Academic Excellence Facilitator. By the end of college she had tutored over 15 separate courses, and fellow students were ...

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Charmayne Palomba

Manhattan LSAT teacher - Charmayne Palomba

After graduating from a small liberal arts college with a degree in English, Charmayne drove 1,286 miles to Denton, Texas — a far cry from her native New Jersey — to pursue a Master's degree in Environmental Philosophy. With...

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Aileen Nielsen

Manhattan LSAT teacher - Aileen Nielsen

A graduate of Yale Law School, Aileen is thrilled to be working with Manhattan LSAT in New York and New Haven. She has taught and tutored the LSAT in Chicago and Las Vegas and now looks forward to....

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Matthew Sherman

Manhattan LSAT Teacher - Matthew Sherman

Matt Sherman joined Manhattan LSAT in 2009 as an instructor - though his experience with the LSAT goes back much further. He began teaching the LSAT in 2003 while not yet finished with his bachelor’s degree at the University of Washington. After...

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Noah Teitelbaum

Manhattan LSAT teacher - Noah Teitelbaum

Noah has worked in education for years, beginning in 2001 with his first public school class in Harlem. There he learned - through painful trial and error - the fundamentals of lesson planning, effective lesson delivery and the art of handing out ...

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Patrick Tyrrell

Manhattan LSAT teacher - Patrick Tyrrell

Patrick Tyrrell is an LSAT natural, scoring a 172 the first time he ever looked at the test. He had no intention of going to law school at the time, having just moved to LA from DC in order to pursue his rock and roll dreams. Instead, he got a job as ...

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