Our Team
Tania N. Shah, Esq.
The Boss/President
Tania is founder and president of LawTutors and oversees all operations of the company. She is also the founder and managing member of her law firm, Shah Law, where she practices small business law. Tania was a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth School of Law and an adjunct professor at Boston University School of Law. She has taught for Emanuel Bar Review and Themis 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 received 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 got an actual chair.
Melissa A. Gill, Esq.
Vice President
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 was a 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.
Charley Crowley, Esq.
New York, Head Attorney Instructor
Charley has been with LawTutors since it began in 2002. For ten years, he has helped students succeed in law school and for the MA and NY Bar Exams. 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.
California, Head Attorney Instructor
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.
Christine Kingston, Esq.
Head MPRE Attorney Instructor
Christine is our newest member of the Team, being with us just over a year. Christine quickly rose to the top of the MPRE Success Ladder as she demonstrated a keen ability to not only help students pass on the first try, but also in taking multiple-takers and demonstrating exactly what they needed to pass. One student, who came to us after 5 times of not passing, achieved a score of 109 by working with Christine. We then knew we needed to term her (much to her horror) the “MPRE Queen.”
Sharon Tapper
Office manager
Sharon is LawTutors’ office manager and handles all accounts and many operational aspects, as well as student and Attorney Instructor management.
Samantha Bachrach
After many successful years as LawTutors office manager, Samantha passed the reigns onto Sharon and decided to consult for LawTutors from afar (Honduras, to be exact!).
Sharyl Washington
Office Assistant
Sharyl joined the LawTutors family most recently this past year and keeps our headquarters running smoothly.
