Hi there, I’m Daniel
A former BigLaw litigator and lifelong teacher (and learner!), I use my unique background and decades of teaching experience to help students excel at the LSAT, in law school, and on the bar exam with minimal stress.
Bio
I’m a legal educator with nearly a decade of experience teaching the LSAT, law school courses, and bar exam preparation. I founded XL Law Tutor to build the kind of instruction I believe actually works: structured, rigorous, and relentlessly focused on results. I’ve worked with first-generation students, career-changers, repeat bar takers, and high scorers aiming even higher—helping them turn confusion into competence and competence into performance.
My approach is simple: read precisely, think clearly, write cleanly, and perform under pressure. Whether we’re breaking down conditional logic on the LSAT or crafting rule statements for the MEE, I expect real effort and intellectual honesty. I’ll push you—but I’ll also show you exactly how to improve. The tone is relaxed; the standards are not.
Before launching my solo practice, I worked as a writing instructor courses at the University of Michigan, where I also developed an LSAT curriculum and ran a group=instruction program serving 100s of students. After graduating, I worked as a litigation associate at Gibson Dunn, where clarity and precision weren’t academic—they were mandatory. That combination of classroom and courtroom experience shapes how I teach: practical, analytical, and focused on transferable skills.
If you’re looking for hype, you won’t find it here. If you’re looking for disciplined thinking, direct feedback, and a teacher who takes your goals as seriously as you do, we’ll get along just fine.