Lavanya Sabin Director of Bar Success and Professor of Practice

Phone: 540-458-8508

Email: lsabin@wlu.edu

Office: 463 Lewis Hall

Area of Expertise

Bar Exam Preparation

Education

JD, American University, Washington College of Law

BA, Georgetown University

About

Professor Lavanya Sabin has over 20 years of experience in bar exam tutoring and content development in both bar exam preparation skills and substantive law. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and American University, Washington College of Law. After graduating from law school, Professor Sabin practiced corporate law and was General Counsel for two high tech companies in the Washington D.C. metro area specializing in corporate law.

She started her academic career at the Washington College of Law, American University in Washington D.C. There she worked in bar programing and accommodations for students with disabilities. This experience made her very interested as to why students struggled with various aspects of the bar exam and test taking in general. Professor Sabin was then recruited by a small but innovative bar preparation company called the Study Group to grade essays for students taking the New York bar exam and eventually graded essays in over 28 states including California and New York. She also worked extensively with foreign students.

After the company was bought by Kaplan and Professor Sabin spent the next 10 years working in all aspects of bar exam preparation teaching virtually and in person, private bar tutoring and developing content. She has also tutored and taught Virginia, Florida, Georgia and California bar takers at the University of Florida, Barry Law School, John Marshall School of Law (Atlanta), The Savannah School of Law, The University of South Carolina and The University of Denver, Strum School of Law.

After moving to Charleston, South Carolina Professor Sabin became the Director of Bar Preparation at the Charleston School of Law teaching law students pre-law to 3L and recent graduates in essay writing and MBE strategies. She was the Director of Bar Review Program Strategy in charge of MEE/MPT Content Development at Helix Bar Preparation. She completed a review of all the UBE bar examiners point sheets for the last 20 years and developed model answers and grading rubrics for all of them. She also created many of the lectures for the company's essay writing, MEE and MPT. She is expert in all aspects of the bar exam, both in strategies, writing and substantive law. Professor Sabin has extensive experience working with retakers and students with disabilities.