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Send us a Text Message with thoughts, guest suggestions, stories and more, HERE! Welcome back to another Ladies Who Law School Podcast episode! This episode is sponsored by Barcast Audio**For all of you guys taking the bar exam in a few months, Barcast Audio has a special offer just for listeners of our show. Right now, you can get 10% off your order of the Barcast: MBE Pack, which includes access to audio lessons, essay workshops, and attack sheets for all 7 MBE subjects.**  Use promo code: LADIES at checkout!Alison from Legally Today joins the ladies on this week's episode. Alison went to Florida International University, where she majored in psychology and criminal justice, and she shares that psychology helped the most with law school because she had to write a TON! She shares all things about her law school and legal journey up until now. From her highs and lows of 1L, to her battle with anxiety and perfection that so many of us have felt. Who is scared of failing? The ladies are! Alison started out as wanting to be a fashion designer, but that didn’t last long. Instead her why changed, listen to find out more! Being a 1st generation law student Alison said starting out the application and LSAT process was hard. She shares her mistakes and what she learned and how she focused on financial aid and location when choosing her law school. Alison shares her experience with St. Thomas in Miami. If you're interested in attending there, this is a great interview to check out. This summer she interned as a Guardian AD Litem and she works for a corporate/construction law firm. She also took criminal procedure and appellate advocacy. She attended a TPR trial and experienced something you don’t see often in court, listen to find out what happened! Alison talks about applying for law review and why she decided to put in the hard work even when it didn’t sound like very much fun! Back in 2018 Alison started doing creative work for the law firm she was at. She says learning on the job was real, but it paid off because now she has her own business creating content for lawyers and law firms. Helping create a plan, goal and get started! Then, she shares more about why she started the account and website, Legally Today. Check out the website HERE!!  FACEBOOK GROUP <- Make sure to join the convo and meet other pre-law students, law students, and young attorneys! Thank you so much for all of the support you've shown! Please, don't hesitate to contact us about topics you'd like to hear in the future.  See you next week! Follow us on social!FacebookInstagram make sure to check out our stories here every day for opportunities to participate in Q&A's, polls, and giveaways.Twitter Give us a 5-star rating & subscribe for more!xoxo stay safe and healthy,The LadStarting law school this fall? You NEED to join the 1L Masterclass today! https://www.1lmasterclass.com/Support the showFollow us on Instagram @theladieswholawpodcast

Send us a Text Message with thoughts, guest suggestions, stories and more, HERE! Welcome back to another Ladies Who Law School Podcast episode! This week's episode is sponsored by Angela Vorpahl - and you guys she is offering the BEST opportunity for 0L's about to start law school this cycle, Angela's FREE 1L Masterclass. The FREE masterclass will cover the 3 biggest mistakes 1Ls make that prevent them from hitting their ambitious grade goals AND her signature 3-part framework to correct those mistakes and compete for top grades. SO. If you guys are looking to cut through the confusion and uncertainty of 1L year --  SIGN UP HERE!! -- and listen to her episode with the ladies HERE! This episode is also sponsored by Barcast Audio! Barcast has a special announcement: A LA CARTE COURSES!!! Now you can purchase individual courses from the MBE pack, perfect for law students looking to spruce up their skills on the subjects for the bar exam! We have been waiting for the a la carte option for so long and we are so excited to give you guys our promo code LADIES at checkout! On this weeks episode the ladies chat with Karin Conroy of Conroy Creative Counsel! She is a marketing expert for law firms and shares her expertise with the ladies. This episode is one to listen to and save, especially if you want to start your own firm one day! Follow Karin on Instagram HERE and Linkedin HERE FACEBOOK GROUP <- Make sure to join the convo and meet other pre-law students, law students, and young attorneys!Follow us on social!Facebook Instagram make sure to check out our stories here every day for opportunities to participate in Q&A's, polls, and giveaways. Twitter  Tik Tokxoxo stay safe and get outside,The LadiesSamantha & Haylie@samanthalemke @ohh_hayls_yeaStarting law school this fall? You NEED to join the 1L Masterclass today! https://www.1lmasterclass.com/Support the showFollow us on Instagram @theladieswholawpodcast

Send us a Text Message with thoughts, guest suggestions, stories and more, HERE! Welcome back to another Ladies Who Law School Podcast episode!This week's episode is sponsored by Angela Vorpahl - and you guys she is offering the BEST opportunity for current law students about to start OCI aka On Campus Interviews!  Sign up HERE! It's that one time a year where law firms come to campus to recruit 2Ls for their summer programs. If you are wondering how in the HECK do you sell yourself in 20 minutes flat to land a summer job at a law firm, then Angela has exactly what you need.Make sure to sign up at OCIBOOTCAMP.COM! This episode is also sponsored by Barcast Audio! Barcast has a special announcement: A LA CARTE COURSES!!! Now you can purchase individual courses from the MBE pack, perfect for law students looking to spruce up their skills on the subjects for the bar exam! We have been waiting for the a la carte option for so long and we are so excited to give you guys our promo code LADIES at checkout! On this week's episode, the ladies chat about what comes after the LSAT... the application package! This includes a personal statement, letters of recommendation, resume, diversity statement (if you choose), and addendum (if needed.) We share our timelines, how we went about asking for LOR's and more! If you are just starting your application process, this episode is a good way to get your feet wet on the materials you will need to apply!  Here is a resume template that we use ->>>> CLICK HERE FACEBOOK GROUP <- Make sure to join the convo and meet other pre-law students, law students, and young attorneys!Follow us on social!FacebookInstagram make sure to check out our stories here every day for opportunities to participate in Q&A's, polls, and giveaways.Twitter Tik Tokxoxo stay safe and get outside,The LadiesSamantha & Haylie@samanthalemke @ohh_hayls_yeaStarting law school this fall? You NEED to join the 1L Masterclass today! https://www.1lmasterclass.com/Support the showFollow us on Instagram @theladieswholawpodcast

Send us a Text Message with thoughts, guest suggestions, stories and more, HERE! Welcome back to another Ladies Who Law School Podcast episode! This episode is sponsored by Barcast Audio**For all of you guys taking the bar exam in a few months, Barcast Audio has a special offer just for listeners of our show. Right now, you can get 10% off your order of the Barcast: MBE Pack, which includes access to audio lessons, essay workshops, and attack sheets for all 7 MBE subjects.**  Use promo code: LADIES at checkout!On this weeks episode the Ladies chat with Chloe from the instagram account, Law & Skincare!! Chloe got her undergrad degree at Texas State University and is now a rising 3L at Sandra Day O’Connor school of law at ASU. Chloe shares her LSAT experience, and how she chose her law school! She also talks about how ASU helps keep gunners from getting wild, but also ASU Law students were forced to choose if they wanted to go Pass/Fail. She shares why that was such a problem and her overall experience with COVID while in law school. Chloe, like many of us, felt the struggle during 1L, especially with cold calls!!! #blindsided After 1L Chloe was apart of Harvard's Covid-19 Summer Institute - learning different critical theories through the lens of critical race theory- thinking about the law and how critical race theory can inform how we advocate -- they matched us with a different advocacy groups across the country -- her’s was Center for Workers Right, in Sacramento California  -- she helped build and extended her fellowship for even longer! This summer she is currently working at two labor and employment law firms. As far as what Chloe will do later in life, she wants to help the working class people, maybe through policy work, and who knows maybe one day she will join the Ladies at their female power firm! Then Chloe shares all about her instagram page and blog, Law and Skincare!! Follow her HERE on instagram and HERE on TikTok. FACEBOOK GROUP <- Make sure to join the convo and meet other pre-law students, law students, and young attorneys! Thank you so much for all of the support you've shown! Please, don't hesitate to contact us about topics you'd like to hear our take on in Season 2.  See you next week! Follow us on social!FacebookInstagram make sure to check out our stories here every day for opportunities to participate in Q&A's, polls, and giveaways.Twitter Give us a 5-star rating & subscribe for more!xoxo stay safe and healthy,The LadiesSamantha & HaylieStarting law school this fall? You NEED to join the 1L Masterclass today! https://www.1lmasterclass.com/Support the showFollow us on Instagram @theladieswholawpodcast

Send us a Text Message with thoughts, guest suggestions, stories and more, HERE! Welcome back to another Ladies Who Law School Podcast episode! This episode is sponsored by Barcast Audio**For all of you guys taking the bar exam in a few months, Barcast Audio has a special offer just for listeners of our show. Right now, you can get 10% off your order of the Barcast: MBE Pack, which includes access to audio lessons, essay workshops, and attack sheets for all 7 MBE subjects.**  Use promo code: LADIES at checkout!On this weeks episode the ladies talk to Kathryn Burmeister, a Mercer Law alumna, a personal injury attorney, and a published author! First she shares a little about her experience before law school. The Books (1) (2) that shaped her !! Kathryn knew she wanted to be a lawyer since she was in middle school. She got her first ‘legal’ job in high school and from there worked at different firms! If you are young and know you want to be a lawyer, this lady’s story is one to follow!! She shares one of her greatest accomplishments: making it through law school without a major mental health issue. Then she shares how she struggled with mental health in the past and the ladies discuss mental health within the profession!  Kathryn then shares her biggest struggle while in law school and it came after graduation: The BAR! After a few failed attempts she successfully passed on her third try and she has been practicing ever since! She now owns her own firm now, but make sure and listen to the *crazy* circumstances that led to her going out on her own! Kathryn then shares with the ladies a bit about her book, “Overcoming Addiction to the Status Quo” which you can check out HERE !!! Make sure and listen to this *entire* episode <3  and Follow Kathryn Here FACEBOOK GROUP <- Make sure to join the convo and meet other pre-law students, law students, and young attorneys! Thank you so much for all of the support you've shown! Please, don't hesitate to contact us about topics you'd like to hear our take on in Season 2.  See you next week! Follow us on social!FacebookInstagram make sure to check out our stories here every day for opportunities to participate in Q&A's, polls, and giveaways.Twitter Give us a 5-star ratiStarting law school this fall? You NEED to join the 1L Masterclass today! https://www.1lmasterclass.com/Support the showFollow us on Instagram @theladieswholawpodcast

In this podcast, the ladies chat about the LSAT, covering study tips, preparation options, and listener feedback. They discuss different approaches to LSAT study, recommend resources like Khan Academy, LSAT demon, and Seven Sage. The episode also includes discussions on Audible for audiobooks, alternative LSAT preparation, Seven Sage LSAT Prep Program, Princeton Review options, and comparisons between Blueprint and PowerScore LSAT prep programs.

Send us a Text Message with thoughts, guest suggestions, stories and more, HERE! Welcome back to another Ladies Who Law School Podcast episode! This week's episode is sponsored by Angela Vorpahl - and you guys she is offering the BEST opportunity for 0L's about to start law school this cycle, Angela's FREE 1L Masterclass. The FREE masterclass will cover the 3 biggest mistakes 1Ls make that prevent them from hitting their ambitious grade goals AND her signature 3-part framework to correct those mistakes and compete for top grades. SO. If you guys are looking to cut through the confusion and uncertainty of 1L year --  SIGN UP HERE!! -- and listen to her episode with the ladies HERE! On this week's episode, the ladies chat and catch up with each other! They cover the usual moto -- *grades DON'T define you* !!! Remember to reach out if you're feeling down about grade or anything really, you are NOT alone! The ladies have break downs ALL THE TIME, and we all have to remember it takes a village! After two weeks of "vacation" and no work or school, the ladies are back full-time!! Interested in what a LLI (licensed legal intern) check out this link! The ladies are both at civil firms (Haylie is working in employment and civil right, while Samantha is at a bigger firm that, lets face it, does it ALL) They both share a little about their experience working, as well as share TIPS on what you can do to make your internship the best for you and your legal knowledge! FACEBOOK GROUP <- Make sure to join the convo and meet other pre-law students, law students, and young attorneys!Follow us on social!Facebook Instagram make sure to check out our stories here every day for opportunities to participate in Q&A's, polls, and giveaways. Twitter  Tik Tokxoxo stay safe and get outside,The LadiesSamantha & Haylie@samanthalemke @ohh_hayls_yeaStarting law school this fall? You NEED to join the 1L Masterclass today! https://www.1lmasterclass.com/Support the showFollow us on Instagram @theladieswholawpodcast

Send us a Text Message with thoughts, guest suggestions, stories and more, HERE! Welcome back to another Ladies Who Law School Podcast episode! On this week's episode, the ladies talk to Jasmin Robinson, a Future Lawyer Activist, Coach,  Writer, Consultant & Entrepreneurship Attorney. She is the creator of the brand - 5% of lawyers are black — and she does everything In her power to help increase that! Jas has helped and raised over 2.2 million in scholarship to help get future lawyers to law school!! Jas went to Mercer Law School and she talks about why she chose to go there! She uses a good line in reference her experience with to the other law schools she didn’t get into, “rejection is redirection” we all have to remember that one! Jas shared her accomplishments: graduating with honors, she made the deans list 1st and last semester of law school! She also shares her struggles: learning discipline- this level of studying and discipline needed to be successful in law school! cue Ciara’s Level Up! In true Jas fashion, she worked her booty off in law school. She did 5-6 different internship while in law school, including  at U.S. Department of Education in the Civil Rights Department. Jas shares her Bar Prep experience with us, she was a Barbri rep. and that helped keep her accountable. Then listen to what happened 2 weeks before she took the bar. She also talks about the *Barbri tracker* -- don’t let it get you down, keep up the hard work and KEEP LEARNING from your mistakes! While waiting for her results she worked as a recruiter at Mercer then after she found out she passed she started at a family law firm, but realized litigation wasn't for her. So she focused on Jas Talks Law, listen to find out the rest of her story!Birth of Jas Talks Law — thanks to Mercer, she was a 2L, and was asked by the school to go back to Hampton and recruit! She did a law fair event but of course she wanted to do a little more then just the fair. So she had an event and named it “Jas Talks Law” — 6 years later she has made this brand into her own law firm! She wrote a personal statement work book, to help everyone in any financial situation!  Jas shares her experience with racism and the reason behind *5% of lawyers are black* brand — she talks about the “beautiful struggle” — Jas talks about how AWARENESS is what is really wants — she considers this as her contribution to the movement! Follow her on Insta HERE and Linkedin HEREFACEBOOK GROUP <- Make sure to join the convo and meet other pre-law students, law students, and young attorneys!Follow us on social!Facebook - Instagram make sure to check out our stories here every day for opportunities to participate in Q&A's, polls, and giveaways. - Twitter  - Tik Tokxoxo stay safe anStarting law school this fall? You NEED to join the 1L Masterclass today! https://www.1lmasterclass.com/Support the showFollow us on Instagram @theladieswholawpodcast

Send us a Text Message with thoughts, guest suggestions, stories and more, HERE! Welcome back to another Ladies Who Law School Podcast episode! On this week's episode, the ladies talk to Julianne Simson of How to be Broke in New York. Julianne got her under-grad degree and masters from Florida State University and was entrenched in the political scene of Florida, and she thought "Hey I wanna do this in NY!" So she lined up a job on the 2016 Clinton Campaign. However,  when she moved to NY, Brooklyn area, her job fell through. Julianne had saved up some money to get her buy, but after about two months she started to feel really down! In the spirit of ~pivoting~ she made it her mission to find enjoy her new home even if it was on a budget so she discovered all the *free* things to do in New York City, que her Instagram page. She talks about how her LSAT experience was horrible, but man you guys she was DRIVEN and with all that hard work she got into Cardozo School of Law and is currently a rising 3L, like The Ladies!! Julianne shares her experience when she told her law school about her instagram page, and how proud the dean was of her entrepreneurial skills! She talks about the differences between pre-covid law school vs. online law school, and how it effected her. Julianne shares about working at the Attorney General's office in the Labor bureau, and shares the TEA about her current summer plans. Drum roll please ..... she is working for a federal judge in the Southern District of New York. She shares how she got her internship too! #Networking Julianne manifests her future intentions of owning her own New York City apartment as well as being a Bad A *millennial* Judge one day!! Follow her on instagram, or TikTok and catch her on a bike, outside this summer! FACEBOOK GROUP <- Make sure to join the convo and meet other pre-law students, law students, and young attorneys!Follow us on social!FacebookInstagram make sure to check out our stories here every day for opportunities to participate in Q&A's, polls, and giveaways.Twitter Tik TokGive us a 5-star rating & subscribe for more!xoxo stay safe and healthy,The LadiesSamantha & Haylie@samanthalemke @ohh_hayls_yeaStarting law school this fall? You NEED to join the 1L Masterclass today! https://www.1lmasterclass.com/Support the showFollow us on Instagram @theladieswholawpodcast

Send us a Text Message with thoughts, guest suggestions, stories and more, HERE! Welcome back to another Ladies Who Law School Podcast episode!On this week's episode, the ladies talk with Laura from Blueprint LSAT Prep all about their new additions to their LSAT training programs! If you are a pre-law student, this is definitely a segment you won't want to miss! The ladies then recap their 2L experience by talking about exams and their highs and lows of the year!!! We can't believe that we are already 3L's and that you've been here for the journey. If you ever have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out! FACEBOOK GROUP <- Make sure to join the convo and meet other pre-law students, law students, and young attorneys! Add us on Peloton!! -> @samanthatwiggy @haylsya Follow us on social!FacebookInstagram make sure to check out our stories here every day for opportunities to participate in Q&A's, polls, and giveaways.TwitterTik TokGive us a 5-star rating & subscribe for more!xoxo stay safe and healthy,The LadiesSamantha & Haylie@samanthalemke @ohh_hayls_yeaStarting law school this fall? You NEED to join the 1L Masterclass today! https://www.1lmasterclass.com/Support the showFollow us on Instagram @theladieswholawpodcast