Pre-Law Advising & App Support for Undergrads: Get Accepted to Law School, Guaranteed

Corie graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated cum laude and was honored with the H. Hill Award in English Literature, one of the Berkeley English department’s highest honors. She received her law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she served as an Editor of the Entertainment Law Review and also completed the school’s prestigious entertainment law program. As a law student, Corie was recognized twice for academic excellence as a Teaching Fellow, once in constitutional law and once in contracts. She began publishing academic research while still a student at UCLA, where a paper that she co-authored with a faculty member served as a springboard for her academic career.

After graduating, Corie began her extensive legal education journey. As Professor of Academic Theory and a Lecturer in Law, she first taught at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law before becoming a Legal Writing Professor at the University of Colorado’s Wolf Law School. As a professor, Corie’s passion has always been supporting law students to be the very best scholars and test-takers they can be. She has designed and taught courses focused on legal writing and analysis, as well as cross-disciplinary courses that integrated topics in property, constitutional law, and contracts. Her goal has always been bringing out the very best in students by developing a warm and supportive relationship while pushing them to realize peak performance. Her success in supporting students has helped some of them move from the bottom of the class to the very top. She knows precisely how powerful the right support at the right time can be, and she brings that expertise to each counseling session.

As an author, Corie has published numerous major academic articles, two books, several shorter works of fiction, and has contributed to anthologies and textbooks. Her writing has also been featured on NPR and nominated for the National Book Award and Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. She brings her profound understanding of and belief in the power of narrative to her work in admissions consulting. She knows that there is almost nothing more powerful than a good story, well told, and she applies that understanding to the application process. Corie uses her narrative mastery to support students ready to develop and deepen their personal stories in the service of their admissions materials.

Corie’s experience in working with students, especially in supporting them as writers and legal thinkers, gained her national, and in some cases, international recognition. She has published dozens of academic papers, spoken at conferences in many places in the United States and Europe, and even taught American legal writing as an invited exchange faculty member at the Université Paris Descartes. She has also served as faculty for the prestigious pre-law program run by the Council for Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO), a program focused on helping non-traditional and first-generation law students achieve their very best as first-year law students in law schools all around the country.

As a coach, Corie combines her in-depth knowledge of the admissions process with a strong commitment to helping students reach their full potential. She understands what it takes to stand out in a highly competitive admissions environment. While serving on the admissions committee at Wolf Law, she reviewed more than 1,000 applications, evaluating personal statements, writing samples, and overall profiles before making recommendations to the deans. Corie knows how to ask thoughtful, strategic questions to help applicants uncover their strengths, and she builds a supportive, collaborative relationship that encourages students to present their most compelling and authentic selves.

Brian has extensive experience counseling students at all stages of the law school application process. During his time at Suffolk Law, Brian regularly met with students to advise them on writing their personal statements, compiling letters of recommendation, and writing optional essays. As a member of Suffolk University Law School’s admissions committee,  Brian analyzed 2,500+ applications and gained a deep understanding of what factors make applicants stand out. He has worked with students from diverse backgrounds and co-founded and co-ran the Suffolk Pre-Law Achievers Program.  This two-week pipeline program was designed to equip students from diverse and non-traditional backgrounds with the skills they need to create a successful law school application.

As a counselor, Brian’s approach centers on getting to know each student so he can help them understand how their individual experiences make them a unique law school candidate. Drawing on hundreds of student meetings, he helps applicants understand each step of the application process and how to leverage their past successes to compile a robust application. Brian’s passion for coaching comes from seeing students he met during the application process succeed in law school and go on to thrive in their legal careers.

In his free time, Brian enjoys reading, golfing, and spending time with his wife and dog.

Prior to attending law school on a merit scholarship, Alex graduated with a BBA and a BA in management of operations and educational studies from Emory University. She has spent her career working at the intersection of law school admissions, student success, and student affairs. Students Alex has worked with have gained admission to top law schools such as Columbia, Stanford, Georgetown, and George Washington Law.

In her roles as an Associate Dean of Students at Richmond Law and UGA Law, Alex worked closely with admissions teams to review applications and support holistic decision-making. She also advised students on character and fitness disclosures, ADA accommodations, and the transition to law school—particularly for those navigating non-traditional paths, disciplinary history, disability, or other barriers. Her deep understanding of the law school experience gives her unique insight into what admissions officers are looking for.

Alex also has a strong foundation in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB), having developed programming and training in collaboration with DEI offices at multiple institutions. She’s especially skilled at helping applicants address sensitive or complex topics with confidence and care. Alex is also a Leadership Working Group member at the University of St. Thomas School of Law’s Hollaran Center. 

Alex’s approach to coaching is applicant-centered and grounded in more listening than talking. She believes that every applicant brings something meaningful to the table, and her role is to help them identify it, name it, and tell that story with confidence and clarity. Known for her warmth, humor, and honesty, she works collaboratively with clients to build strong, authentic applications that reflect who they are and where they’re headed.

Outside of coaching, Alex runs a thriving pet care business in Richmond, Virginia, where she lives with a rescue dog named Scooby and two elderly rescue cats named Cindy and Greg. She’s a sucker for Bravo, and is a firm believer that a Diet Coke and a good cry can fix almost anything.