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 has been preparing students for standardized tests for the past ten years. During that time, he has helped students succeed in subjects ranging from calculus to contracts. 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.

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

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

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. Currently, Joe works in the financial services industry where his organization provides regulatory compliance support for insurers and third party administrators. In addition, Joe consults in the areas of criminal law and civil rights litigation.

Anna Lucey, Esq.
Attorney Instructor

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

Sheri received her degree from Suffolk Law school, and is currently licensed in both Massachusetts and New York. While at Suffolk, she focused on Intellectual Property Law, and graduated with a concentration in Intellectual Property. She was also a chair of the Intellectual Property Law Student Association. Sheri is currently the Director of Legal Referrals at Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and practices trademark law at a firm in Massachusetts.

Sheri is also editor of Aspen’s What Not To Write: New York

Samantha Bachrach
Office Manager

Samantha is a graduate of Simmons College, Magna Cume 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.

Thomas Koch
IT Director

Thomas has brought LawTutors into a new technological dimension. Tania rewards Thomas with Indian food that she pretends she made but she really just runs down the street and buys it from the local Indian cafe.