Tina Schindler
Professor Schindler is the Director of Bar Preparation and an Associate Professor of Law for Academic Success and Bar Preparation at Southwestern Law School, where she recently helped lead the school to historic bar passage rates.
For over a decade she has designed academic and bar exam support programs, created innovative curricula, directed bar preparation programs and pre-admission law school programs, taught courses and workshops in all California bar tested subjects, and published books that enable students to pass both the essay and performance test portion of the California Bar Exam.
She co-authored (with Mary Basick) a popular and highly rated bar preparation book, Essay Exam Writing for the California Bar Exam, which is in its second edition. She also co-authored (with Mary Basick) the book, California Performance Test Workbook: Preparation for the Bar Exam, also in its second edition. Her work was also published in the book, Your Guide to Taking the Bar (Again).
In addition to teaching and publishing on bar exam subjects and test-taking strategies, Professor Schindler has graded and lectured for several bar preparation companies and served on several committees related to bar passage for the Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE). As an expert in the field of academic and bar support, Professor Schindler has been invited to present on bar exam topics at national conferences including her heavily attended presentation on Improving Multiple-Choice Test Taking at the AASE Annual Conference.