Tania N. Shah, Esq.
President

Tania is the President and Founder of LawTutors, LLC and Managing Member of the Law Firm Shah Law, LLC where she practices business law.  Tania is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth School of Law and teaches for the Emanuel Bar Review. Tania is also author of Aspen’s What Not To Write series and has published books for Massachusetts, New York and California. She is also editor of Aspen’s Blonds MBE Review book.

Tania earned her Juris Doctor from Boston University Law School in May of 2000, and her B.A. and B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Tania is recieving the Silver Shingle Young Lawyer’s Chair Alumni Award from Boston University School of Law in October of 2010. She was pleasantly surprised to find out that she gets an actual chair.

Melissa A. Gill, Esq.
Vice President

Melissa the Vice President of LawTutors, LLC, and Of Counsel for Shah Law, LLC practicing business and contract law.

Melissa earned her Juris Doctorate from New England School of Law in May 2006, and passed both the New York and Massachusetts Bars. While at New England, she was on the New England Journal of International and Comparative Law, Secretary of the Student Bar Association and chaired the Barrister’s Ball. Melissa tutored Constitutional Law for the school as a 2L, and taught legal research and a 3L. Melissa was a research assistant for two intellectual property professors, and assisted in researching and editing the book Sports Law, Cases and Materials, By Russ VerSteeg.

In addition to teaching with LawTutors, Ms. Gill is an adjunct professor at University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth School of Law, and teaches for Emanuel Bar Review. She is also the co-author of Aspen’s What Not To Write series and co-editor of Aspen’s Blonds Multistate Book.

David Hirschbirg, Esq.
Attorney Instructor, New York

David is an associate at DeVore & DeMarco LLP in New York, where his practice focuses on computer crime, e-commerce, intellectual property and data security.
David has more than ten years of experience as an educator, both in classroom and one-on-one settings.  Prior to pursuing a career in law, he spent six years working for Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions, where he was a master teacher specializing in LSAT instruction and the training of new teachers.  In addition to his work with individual law students, he has served as an instructor for Emanuel Bar Review.

David received his J.D. with honors from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2007, where he was an associate editor of the Cardozo Law Review and a member of the trial team.  David served as an editor for the most recent edition of Aspen’s Strategies and Tactics for the MBE.

David graduated with honors from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2007, where he was an associate editor of the Cardozo Law Review and a member of the trial team. David most recently was an editor for Aspen’s Strategies and Tactics for the MBE.

Heather Douglas, Esq.
Attorney Instructor, MA

Heather earned her Juris Doctor from New England Law-Boston in May of 2002. While at New England, she was on the New England Journal of International and Comparative Law, Secretary of the Student Bar Association and chaired the Barrister’s Ball. She was also a student instructor for legal research and writing both her 2L and 3L years. Her studies of focus included, Taxation, International Business Transactions, and other corporate related matters.

Professionally, Heather practices as in-house counsel to a wireless telecommunications company headquartered in Boston. She has worked as a corporate attorney for them for approximately 5 years and is now managing the wireless accounts in the Northeast Area specifically, the New England region and NY. She is a member of the Massachusetts Bar, and admitted to practice in the United States Federal District Court.

Joseph Keeney, Esq.
Attorney Instructor; MPRE Head Attorney Instructor, MA

Joe is a native from Southern, Ohio, and he has been living in Massachusetts since 2005. Prior to moving to Massachusetts, Joe attended Marshall University where be received a B.B.A. in Economics while minoring in Management. Following his undergraduate studies, Joe attended the Thomas M. Cooley School of Law and graduated with a litigation concentration. Joe Keeney has been a member of the Law Tutors team since 2008.  Prior to graduating The Thomas M. Cooley School of Law, Joe received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Marshall University.  Joe’s main interests at Law Tutors include the Multi-State Professional Responsibility Exam and the Multi-State Bar Exam.  When Joe is not working for Law Tutors, his other professional interests and activities include: legal publishing and consulting work, legal research, and teaching at the undergraduate level.

Anna Lucey, Esq.
Attorney Instructor, MA

Anna serves as the legal counsel to the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development in the Massachusetts Legislature. Anna graduated from Suffolk University Law School, cum laude, in 2006 where she focused her studies on real estate, land use, and environmental and administrative law. While at Suffolk, Anna was president of the Suffolk Environmental Law Society, editor of the Green Gavel, Suffolk’s environmental law publication, and coach of the environmental law moot court team. Her previous job experiences include working as an intellectual property paralegal at Ropes & Gray as well as internships with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the US Small Business Administration. Anna is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and belongs to the Women’s Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association, and the Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts.

Sheri Mason, Esq.
Attorney Instructor, MA

Sheri Mason works with artists, arts organizations, and small businesses in various areas of law including copyright, trademark, assignments and licensing agreements, publishing law, music law, and nonprofit incorporation, and often speaks on topics such as copyright law, contracts, consignment of fine art, and representing artists. She works part time as the Director of Legal Services for the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, and is an attorney in the trademark department of Morse Barnes-Brown and Pendleton. In addition, she is the co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Arts, Sports, and Entertainment Law sub-committee and serves on the Women’s Bar Association Public Relations committee.  Sheri received her J.D. from Suffolk Law School in 2007 with a Concentration in Intellectual Property, with distinction. She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Rhode Island. She is the editor of the bar exam essay preparation book, What Not to Write: New York.

Charley Crowley, Esq.
Attorney Instructor, New York

Charley  is admitted to practice in both Massachusetts and New York. A resident of New York City, Charley is currently an Attorney for the New York City Department of Education’s Office of Legal Counsel in the Special Education Litigation Unit.  In that role, he is charged with litigating special education claims against the NYC DOE as well serving as Legal Counsel to the Committee on Special Education.

Prior to that, Charley was Assistant General Counsel at the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents. While at the DIA, he served in a variety of roles including as a Special Prosecutor in the Massachusetts District Courts. Specifically, he was assigned to prosecute Commonwealth business owners who failed to provide workers’ compensation insurance to their employees. He also defended the Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Trust Fund in hundreds of cases and was a hearing officer for the Division of Occupational Safety.

Charley graduated from New England School of Law and has completed the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s (NITA) Trial Skills program.

Nicholas Arnold, Esq.
Attorney Instructor, California

Nick is presently licensed in the State of California and works in Los Angeles as an entertainment attorney, working on transactions for independent producers and new media companies. He earned his J.D. from Boston University, where he was an article editor for the Journal of Science and Technology, and President of the Communication, Entertainment and Sports Law Association. Nick earned his bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!) and is proud to say that he originally hails from Detroit.

Richard Faulkner, Esq.
Attorney Instructor, California

Rick is from Orange County, California. He earned his JD cum laude from Chapman University School of Law. Rick currently serves as Director of Academic Achievement at his alma mater, Chapman University School of Law, in Orange, California. Rick is the Editor of What Not To Write: California

Samantha Bachrach
Office Manager, CA, MA and NY

Samantha is a graduate of Simmons College, Magna Cum Laude, as of May of 2010.  Samantha has been with LawTutors since she was just a kid and she pretty much runs the show. She is too young to be so talented and if we weren’t so excited with her assistance in the growth and development of the business, we would be really jealous. But because Samantha is the glue that holds LawTutors together, we worship her.