Episode Archives

Prep season is upon us! And the guys are here to answer all of your LSAT prep questions.

The results are in from the June 2017 LSAT, and Nate and Ben discuss how their students fared.

The guys talk logic games strategy and how to approach the games with some necessary improvisation.

Using a highlighter to draw a games board, so if you need to erase your pencil markings, the board stays, and you won’t need to re-draw. Pearl of wisdom, or turd of wisdom?

The biggest message is: You’ve either put in the work or not. “The hay is in the barn.”

Ann Levine joins the top of the show to discuss the big news of the day.

We speculate on when the digital LSAT will finally go live.

You want to talk about Wonder Woman?

Step one: Get the best LSAT score you can. Step two: Get yourself $100,000 or more in free law school tuition.

Jay Fleischmann Esq. joins the show to talk about student debt, an exploding area of law.

Ben shares a nightmarish tale of students signed up to take June test at Georgetown.

Nathan shares some (pretty unsurprising) news out of Yale Law School.

Ben and Nathan interview Gary Kinder, an attorney, author, and the creator of WordRake, editing software that can improve the clarity and brevity of one’s writing.

The guys estimate a ten-point improvement over three months of studying but stress that everyone is different and will have different results.

Law School Expert Ann Levine⁠ joins Episode 87 to discuss Harvard Law School’s recent bombshell—they are now giving students the option of submitting their GRE score instead of their LSAT score.

Nathan introduces guest ⁠Chantal Renta⁠, a Chinese-speaking, freelance-accounting, tax-law-loving 3L at Southwestern Law School.

Nathan reveals his surprising new pastime that makes his mom nervous and Ben intrigued.

A new mother writes in with a question the guys haven’t considered before—breastfeeding breaks at the LSAT.

Matt in D.C. took the LSAT in February and is having post-test emotions he wants help processing; his range of feelings runs from sadness to happiness and back to anxiety.

Ben and Nathan discuss the downfall of the Charlotte School of Law due to its students' low LSAT scores, 45% bar passage rates, and dire employment stats.

Ben shares a story of his own legal experience at the Department of Justice and how it affected his career.

It was the best of answers, it was the second best of answers…an email from Canadian Nathan describes the trouble he’s having choosing the correct answer out of the two best answers in the Logical Reasoning sections.

An anonymous listener asks whether or not she should submit an addendum that uses a “white lie” to explain an LSAT absence from two years ago.

Nathan is appalled at the idea of overthinking on the LSAT and encourages all test takers to leave their brains on for the entire test.

Nathan shares an email he received discussing UC Hasting graduates’ “horrific result” on the July 2016 Bar exam. We talk about who and what is to blame for the low passage rate and what might be done to improve it.

Episode 76 is a nod to our Northern neighbors as Nathan records from Toronto, Ontario and we’re joined by Graeme Blake from Montreal, founder of ⁠LSAT Hacks.⁠

We talk about when applications are considered “late” and what that means for scholarship opportunities.

We interview ⁠Law School Expert Ann Levine ⁠about trends she has noticed in this year’s admission cycle so far.

Listener questions include asking for advice on how to best use the time-and-a half accommodation, why we suggest planning for two test dates, and how to best write an addendum- what to include and what to leave out.

In Episode 66, Nathan and Ben discussed an email from Mike, a dedicated student who suffered from panic-induced insomnia the night before his June LSAT.

Two listener emails describe separate but nearly identical issues with their proctors from the September LSAT.

Ben shares big news from the 2004 LSAC Report— a tablet-based LSAT will be released for testing in 2015!!! Oh wait, it wasn’t. We discuss the pros and cons (there aren’t any cons, actually) of such a test, and speculate on why it never happened.

Dreaming of a job in Big Law? If so, fire up your laptop and follow along as a recent law school grad offers advice on scoring a job at a Top 30 firm like she did.

Ben tries out a new strategy for Reading Comp questions.

Ben jumps right into Episode 68 by introducing listeners to LSAT India and their catchy tagline, “All you need is reason.”

Josh planned to retake the LSAT but then received a recommendation from his pre-law advisor not to do so; now Josh is confused about what he should do. We give him our own recommendation and decide that a retake is almost always a good idea.