I am Jonathan Starbuck. I am currenting going into my third year of law school and I have a Bachelor's in Government. I am passionate about educating people because I view education and learning as a continuous progress in life and as a form of self-improvement. As such, I want to help others progress in life to achieve their goals and to hopefully gain a life-long affinity to academics.
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I have had a varied career as a history and government teacher, lawyer, and small business owner. I currently own an online company and teach part-time. I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in history and earned a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law.
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...A graduate of George Washington Law School, Leo was part of the Criminal Appeals Clinic where he drafted and argued an appeal before the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. Additionally, he clerked for the District of Columbia United States Attorney's Office Cyber Crime Section where he worked on issues involving electronic, computer, and internet-related evidence and legal processes; and worked closely with the Department of Justice's Office of International Affairs ("OIA") on an initiative to...
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...through various roles, including a Business, Finance and Information Technology Teacher at Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools, Operations Administration Manager at The Hertz Corporation, General / Regional Manager at Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, and Director of Store Operations at DRT Games, LLC. I hold a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), with a concentration in Management & Marketing from Anderson University. I am also a Certified Ethics Associate (CEA) and a Six Sigma Black Belt Professional...
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...potential and find joy in learning. With over 30 years of experience, I have worked with middle and high school students and adults in their professional careers to help them understand complex subjects and develop confidence in their abilities. I hold degrees in computer science, business marketing, and an MBA, and I am currently pursuing a second master's degree in information technology. This diverse educational background allows me to tutor various subjects, including history (with a...
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...I graduated with honors. I spent almost four years at an Am Law 100 firm practicing general commercial litigation. I recently moved over to the City Solicitor's Office, Civil Right's Division to get some trial experience. I scored in the 92nd percentile on the LSAT and believe my test prep skills and practical experience would make me an excellent tutor for anyone looking for help with the LSAT and/or law school classes! Apart from being...
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...and Jordan. This included teaching at public and private universities. Back in the United States I have taught GRE and LSAT prep classes for individual students preparing for graduate school. I graduated with a masters degree from the University of Chicago. Since then I have been an instructor teaching MBA students at New Mexico State University. I am comfortable teaching a wide variety of subjects and look forward to the opportunity of working with many...
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...Applied Science Degree in Legal Assisting. After graduating from college I moved to Oklahoma and went to Oklahoma City University Law School. I took the bar and have been practicing law since 2006. While I practiced law I also taught at Brown Mackie College, on line and in the classroom. I taught classes associated with the Legal Studies Program and Business. I enjoyed teaching until last year, 2017, when all Brown Mackie campuses closed.
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Varsity Tutors can help connect you with a qualified tutor in your area or online for help with contract law. Contract law is an important component in a variety of legal practice areas. As a first-year law student, you must take a full year of contract law. This course is a component of both the Multistate Bar Exam, or the MBE, and the state-specific bar exams. Many courses will continue to work with contracts in other legal courses (such as labor law, property, and contract drafting), but the bulk of first-year coursework focuses on commercial contracts.
Commercial contract law is vast, detailed, and complex. Students must navigate between common law principles of contract law, which have their roots in English law, and the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), a voluminous collection of contract law proposals that have been adopted by most states. The emphasis on learning the 2,000-page UCC means that contract law courses are less reliant on reading case law than most courses, and although reading case law is certainly difficult, many students find reading and parsing through the Uniform Commercial Code to be even more dry and tedious.
Harmonizing common law contract principles with the Uniform Commercial Code for a particular set of facts can be overwhelming. When is there a contract offer? When is there acceptance? Is there a valid agreement in place? Can the contract be canceled, and if so, how does the canceling party go about ending the agreement appropriately? If the contract is just breached, what is the penalty for nonperformance? And if there is no express agreement, is there an implied contract? The questions, much like the memorized material, are seemingly endless.
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Recent Contract Law Tutoring Session Notes
Total for two sessions, 45 minutes each, on March 1st and March 15th. For the first session, the student had to prepare notecards for a speech and write a personal narrative. Most of the time was spent on the narrative, and we discussed use of quotes vs summarization, organization, and narrative style. In the second session, he wrote the speech prepared in the first session, and we went over one of his vocabulary assignments. We discussed word meanings, parts of speech, and sentence structure.
The student and I worked on some history vocabulary. I wanted to look at some math with him so I did my best to imagine a 4th grade geometry quiz. Hopefully his parent can check him on Tuesday to make sure he's ready. The student has a science test on Thursday in 3 sections, and we began to make him his own study guide (based on the handout given to him by his teacher). I've instructed him to continue working on it on Tuesday and we'll check it out on Wednesday.
This session involved writing. She was given a prompt and was to write it based on the format of an e-mail. She was given twenty minutes to write a well written e-mail with minimal mistakes. Afterwards she was to read it a out loud and correct her mistakes. After today she seems to be a little more confident about her ability in her writing.
The student and I continued our EOC review by going over the structure of DNA, the macromolecules that contribute to DNA, the organization of DNA throughout the different phases of cell division and several pages of her most recent lecture which include Darwin's Theory of Evolution. We reviewed what a trait, phenotype, adaptation and homologous structures all meant in terms of Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
The student and I worked on the relationship between position, velocity, and acceleration. We focused on interpreting and drawing displacement, velocity, and acceleration graphs. We also reviewed graphing limits for advanced precalculus.
Today we started with her homework, which was translating word problems to equations using variables. She's doing okay with it, but will need some more practice. We also worked on solving equations for a variable by using addition and subtraction.
