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July 15, 2016
New SCG Member Danielle Early

We are excited to announce that Danielle Early, former admissions officer at Harvard Law School, has joined The Spivey Consulting Group as an Associate Partner and full-time consultant. Karen Buttenbaum, who hired Danielle at Harvard Law, speaks toward Danielle's enthusiasm for helping students and applicants: Danielle comes to us with an incredible amount of experience working with students -- and I know that she will care very much about seeing her clients succeed just as she cared about her

September 1, 2016
Capacity Update for Admissions Clients

Please note that as of 9/1/16 we are at capacity and can not take on any additional admissions clients in the short-term. We suspect, however, that some of our early clients who are in the process of submitting applications will be finalized by early next week. So please check back soon and we will update here. Many thanks. Mike

November 16, 2016
Spivey Consulting To Co-Sponsor Scholarship Program Through Writing Competition

THE VIDEO GAME BAR ASSOCIATION LAUNCHES FIRST SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ANNUAL WRITING COMPETITION OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS LOS ANGELES, November 14, 2016 – The Video Game Bar Association (“VGBA”) is pleased to announce its first scholarship program to encourage the pursuit of game and interactive entertainment law. The VGBA Student Writing Competition aims to encourage and reward student interest in the field of interactive entertainment law. Entries will be judged based on writing quality, timeliness o

January 18, 2017
Client Capacity Update for This Cycle and Next

2016/2017 Admissions Cycle LAST CALL! We only have availability for Personal Statement/Essay editing (about 10 spots), WL + Scholarship help, and WL help. Everything else is not done for the cycle. 2017/2018 Cycle Reserve a spot now. We generally hit capacity around September and then have a few spots open up sporadically for our packages. In December of this year we went through a 3-day stretch where we had to turn away 60 potential clients. Please don't let that be you if you are interested

March 7, 2017
Now accepting spots for our Pre-L Program

Job well done on getting into law school. Guess what? The challenge has just begun — are you ready to excel as a 1L? First-year grades can play a critical role in recruiting for many jobs. Be sure that your Pre-L is as productive as possible. Spivey Consulting Group offers one-on-one intensive training to prepare you for the rigors of 1L. Our coaches all have teaching experience at top law schools and have designed a course to ready you for the challenges of 1L: critical reading of cases, brief

March 28, 2017
Update: 2016-2017 WL services

Please note: we are currently at capacity for wait list consulting packages for the 2016-2017 cycle. Unfortunately, we do not expect to have any availability opening up for the rest of the cycle. Many thanks. — The Spivey Consulting Group Team

May 27, 2017
Admissions Consulting and Pre-L Capacity/New Hires

A few Spivey Consulting announcements regarding our programs. Admissions Consulting For law school admissions [https://www.spiveyconsulting.com/law-school-admissions/], we have been taking on more clients, earlier, than any previous cycle and at least two of our consultants are nearly maxed out. Because of this, we have made two exciting moves. Jenn Kopolow, who was with us part time, has joined Spivey Consulting full time. Jenn has experience as both a legal writing professor and admissions d

July 18, 2017
Capacity and Consulting Update

Greetings from Spivey Consulting, I write to provide a brief update on our services. Actually, first I would like to thank everyone who has reached out to us or considered it by visiting our website. We are currently just about at capacity -- and this is going to be a busy cycle. No matter how busy it gets, we will keep providing critical cycle data and advice here on our blog, so visit any time. About that capacity. I have been in discussions with several long standing deans of law school adm

August 22, 2017
Anne Dutia to join Spivey Consulting

for immediate release Long standing admissions professional Anne Dutia will be joining The Spivey Consulting Group (SCG), effective October 1, 2017. She has served on both the admissions committee at Michigan Law, and as a pre-law professional. Anne's full bio can be found at: https://www.spiveyconsulting.com/about/ Said partner Mike Spivey on the hiring, "I am happy we could make this happen; we have been pursuing Anne as a critical additional to our team for some time now. She brings divers