About Us

Our mission is to liberate legal education - starting with the LSAT

The LSAT is the gateway to the legal profession, and thus it is the gateway to key positions in our society. But those who are unable to hire $150/hr tutors, or take $1000 LSAT prep courses have been at an unfair disadvantage. Until now.

We want to level the playing field. Top-notch, high-quality LSAT instruction should be affordable, and we have worked hard to do just that. We started off releasing free explanations of LSAT questions, aiming to explain every single one, but it wasn't long before copyright lawyers crashed the party. They demanded a licensing fee and electronic protections every time we show an LSAT question. So, while we have to charge for access, the goal has always been, and will continue to be, to liberate legal education.

• This is why we release hundreds of our videos, including every LSAT Logic Games explanation, for free here.
• This is why we donate our entire curriculum to PreProBono students.
• This is why we offer our course for dramatically less than every other major company we know of.

We make LSAT preparation easier and more affordable, so that you can go to law school and become a lawyer.

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  J.Y. Ping

  Founder

  Harvard Law School, J.D., 2010

  Columbia University, B.A., 2007

  J.Y. graduated from Columbia University where he studied Economics, Political Science, and Philosophy and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School. During law school, J.Y. worked at Paul, Weiss in Hong Kong and at Davis Polk in NYC.

  J.Y. started teaching the LSAT in 2006, and forged the perfect LSAT curriculum through teaching thousands of students. Among other tools, J.Y. invented the Fool Proof Method for logic games, the Blind Review method for logical reasoning questions, and the Memory Method for reading comprehension passages.

  J.Y. was a guest speaker at Columbia, Hunter College, Baruch College, Fordham, Wellesley, Harvard Law School; and a Huffington Post panel on education reform; and is the founder of PreProBono, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to helping disadvantaged students get into law school and promoting public interest law.

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  Alan Cheuk

  Founder

  Harvard Law School, J.D., 2011

  Simon Fraser University, B.Sc., 2008

  Alan is from Canada, where he received a BSc with a joint major in Computing Science, and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Simon Fraser University, graduating first among his Computing Science class. Alan was a software engineer before going to Harvard Law School.

  Alan taught International Negotiation at Jindal Global Law School and was also a Sumner Redstone Fellow.

  Alan's interests and work experience have focused on access to justice and information. He has worked for the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in India, the Justice and Peace Commission in Liberia, the Berkman Center, and PreProBono.

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  Graeme Blake

  VP of Curriculum

  Mount Allison University, B.A., 2007

  Graeme has over 4 years of experience under his belt. He scored a 177 on the LSAT and went to law school, for a while, at UT and McGill. Apart from his LR and LG mastery, we've learned that he keeps some killer Reading Comprehension techniques hidden up his sleeves.

  Graeme is the moderator of Reddit's LSAT forum, and is the author of Hacking The LSAT, a book of explanations for LSATs 29-38. He's taught LSAT courses for two major prep companies.

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  Michelle Cafarelli

  PPB Fellow & Coordinator

  Hunter College, B.A., 2012

  Michelle is a Senior at Hunter College. She is an English Language Arts major, which means she's ready (and excited!) for all of the reading and writing she will have to do in law school. But she is more excited to become a lawyer and to help those who may fall between the cracks of our justice system.

  Michelle is a PreProBono Fellow and now coordinates PPB's never ending stream of events. When she's not doing that, she's cooped up at home eating Bonchon and watching reruns of Mad Men. Don Draper <3.

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  Samuel Edandison

  PPB Fellow & Coordinator

  Dartmouth, B.A., 2010

  Sam tells us that if he were a Jedi, he would want to be Anakin Skywalker before he turned to the Dark Side. We know him well enough not to believe that.

  We do, however, know him well enough to believe him when he tells us how passionate he is about having a fair justice system, where people are punished not based on income or race.

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  Justin Giles

  PPB Fellow & Sage Tutor

  College of Staten Island, B.A., 2012

  Justin is a graduate of CSI (the College of Staten Island, not Crime Scene Investigation). He is a writing major who has given up on his dream of writing novels and plays in order to focus on his other dream: teaching others to wreck the LSAT.

  He is a PreProBono Fellow and scored a 178 on his LSAT after scoring a 156 on his first diagnostic. He will teach you to demolish the LSAT like he did.

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  Victoria Lassen

  Social Media Maven

  Hunter College, B.A., 2013

  When Victoria is not talking us up on Twitter or Facebook, she likes to spend time with her pet Beluga whale while listening to the theme song to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She can draw you into a comic book superhero. She'd probably do you as a villain. She's perceptive like that.

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  Julian Sarkar

  PPB Fellow & Taskmaster

  Dartmouth, B.A., 2013

  After departing his hometown of San Francisco to serve in the U.S. Marines for four years, Julian realized the best way he could continue to serve his country was as a public-interest lawyer. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College who enjoys writing, solving LSAT logic games, and the pursuit of social justice.

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  Jonathan Wang

  Sage Tutor

  Columbia Law School, J.D. 2010

  University of California, B.A. & B.S., 2007

  Jonathan Wang <3 logic. Now a senior instructor at PreProBono and a professional LSAT instructor and tutor, Jonathan balances his humor with intensive and proven teaching methods, making LSAT study both fun and effective for his students.

  He enjoys long walks on the beach, Dance Dance Revolution marathons, and doing LSAT questions by the warmth of a cozy fire (using the finished questions as fuel, of course).