Academic Development Program
Welcome to Touro Law Center’s Academic Development Program. Our Program is committed
to seeing you succeed – not only in your studies at the Law Center, but on the bar
exam and in your legal career. It recognizes that the law school experience is different
from all other types of educational experiences and so its goal is to assist you
in developing the specific skills required for mastery of legal analysis and writing.
Our Program begins during Orientation where you learn the essentials of time management,
case reading, and case briefing, all skills essential for law school success. The
Orientation lectures are followed in the first few weeks of law school by a series
of workshops to help you develop your note taking, outlining, and exam taking skills.
Each 1L student is assigned to a study group with approximately eight to ten students
from his or her class section. A Teaching Assistant, a successful 2L or 3L student
facilitates discussion and guides the group in learning the law and how to go about
the process of thinking and integrating course material.
In addition to group workshops, individual skills development and legal writing
assistance is available to you throughout your years at Touro. One-on-one sessions
with academic support professionals provide individualized assessment, plus help
on study approaches, essay writing, and training in legal reasoning and writing.
During your final semester of law school, we offer two for-credit supplemental bar
preparation courses. These courses provide you with the tools you need to succeed
on your bar exam by providing a jump start on studying the black letter law and
showing you how to study, work with practice questions, and write bar exam essays.
We encourage you to participate in all that Touro has to offer. We are available
to meet with you to discuss your academic performance and to develop a study program
that addresses your individualized needs.
We look forward to working with you.
Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus
Director of Academic Development
Myra Berman
Assistant Director of Academic Development
Nancy Chanin
Assistant Director of Academic Development