Our Team
Our Story
Our Students

Meet our Team

Alex

Alex

Executive Director

Alexander Nakis is the Executive Director of AmeriBar. Professor Nakis teaches at FSU College of Law. He is a nationally renowned bar exam expert, having worked with law schools throughout the country to improve student bar exam performance. Over the last 25 years, Professor Nakis has assisted thousands of examinees in achieving their dream of becoming an attorney.

Geoff

GEOFF

DIRECTOR OF BAR EXAM SUCCESS

Geoff has been working one-on-one with students for many years. He is one of our expert tutors and AmeriBar’s senior workshop instructors. Geoff holds the record for tutoring an AmeriBar student to success after the student had 12 prior unsucccessful attempts with other review courses.

Eric

Eric

Director of Essay Critiques

Eric has been a part of the AmeriBar team for almost 10 years. His main responsibility is overseeing the Essay Critique Program. Eric has personally critiqued thousands of essay answers. He also conducts multiple weekly live essay writing and strategy workshops.

Amanda

Amanda

Instructor

Amanda is a professor and bar exam success expert. She heads the bar prep program at one of the country’s top law schools. She is an AmeriBar tutor and live workshop instructor.

Marilyn

Marilyn

Instructor

Marilyn is a law school professor who teaches bar exam and legal writing classes. She has been teaching legal writing for over 30 years! Marilyn is one of our expert tutors and live workshop instructors.

Susan

Susan

Director of Wellness

Susan has been helping bar examinees pass the bar for almost 20 years. She’s also taught landlord/tenant, subsidized housing regulations, and real estate transactions. Susan is an AmeriBar live workshop instructor and tutor. As an AmeriBar student, you’ll get to know Susan very well. 

Iyanna

Iyanna

Student Support Liaison

Iyanna is AmeriBar’s student support liaison. As an AmeriBar tutoring graduate, she knows what students go through, and provides support every step of the way.

Ann

Adriana

Regional Director

Adriana is the Regional Director and head of management operations. She has been an integral part of the AmeriBar team for over 15 years.

our Story

The Beginning

Alexander Nakis, AmeriBar’s Founder and Executive Director, graduated from Notre Dame Law School and embarked on a career as a commercial litigator at New York law firm, Dewey Ballantine LLP. During his years of legal practice with the firm, friends often asked him for help passing the bar exam. A sincere desire to help friends pass the bar repeatedly interrupted a successful legal career.

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Big box bar review is a problem

The Problem

The pattern Alex discovered is now all too familiar.  Big box corporate bar review companies scared law students into believing that only they had the key to passing the bar exam – for a steep price.  They herded students into lecture halls and fed them videos with little, if any, opportunity to ask questions, let alone get answers.  Those who failed had only themselves to blame . . . or did they?

  • Why was so little time and attention paid to teaching effective study strategies?
  • Why weren’t students taught test-taking techniques specific to each part of the bar exam?
  • Why were bar review courses so impersonal, inflexible, and inattentive to students?

The Solution

AmeriBar developed self-directed bar review courses and a customized, personal tutoring program, to address these questions and remedy the deficiencies found in big box corporate bar review courses.  Based upon six well-established adult learning principles, our products and services recognize that you, our partner, are internally motivated and self-directed.  You bring life experiences and knowledge to learning experiences.  You are goal oriented, relevancy oriented and practical.  As a learner, you should be respected.
The solution to big box bar review problem
AmeriBar Difference

AmeriBar is Better

  • We focus on testability so you can focus on what is likely to be tested on the bar exam.
  • We emphasize and teach practical study strategies and effective test-taking techniques so you can quickly see positive results.
  • We’re here for you with live attorney support, 55 hours every week, Monday through Friday from 9AM to 8PM, Eastern Time, plus 24/7 email support.

Don’t settle for a bar review experience that gives you an automated phone tree or foreign call center.  Call and speak with AmeriBar’s executives and you’ll see why so many successful AmeriBar students write and record testimonials supporting our courses and tutoring.

our STUDENTS

AmeriBar is really about you and tens of thousands of other legal professionals who have placed their trust in us for over two decades.

Meet Our Students

Writing for the bar exam isn’t like writing an essay or writing for any other format, and so I had the right ideas but I didn’t have the right organization or structure, and [my tutor] really helped me figure out how to fix that. So, my experience with AmeriBar was fantastic. . .
Well, the one thing I did do differently was not use Barbri... I used the AmeriBar materials and had the one-on-one tutorial for the essays. I do think it probably made a large difference in how I handled and approached my essays.
There were times on the actual exam that I thought, "this question is right out of my outline."
Brittany discuses how her experience with AmeriBar differed from her prior two attempts using another review course.
Get AmeriBar. It was fantastic. It was worth the money. It was cheaper than any competitor. And I passed the bar, so I have nothing to complain about.
I highly recommend AmeriBar... If you invest in AmeriBar, you will not regret your decision.
Iyanna emotionally describes how AmeriBar helped her pass the bar exam after several prior unsuccessful attempts using a different review course (where she worked as a campus representative).
Thanks again sooooo much for your help - doubt I could have done it without you!
I chose AmeriBar and I’m convinced that had it not been for AmeriBar I wouldn’t have passed the exam.
Watch Shawn describe how he passed 3 bar exams using AmeriBar!
I passed on the first try and I think AmeriBar really helped me achieve that goal.
"I got supremely high scores".
Rebecca discusses passing her second bar taking an AmeriBar course.
"This is a great, cot effective, and complete option for being able to pass the bar exam."
Taj discusses his experience preparing for the bar exam as an AmeriBar student.
I was happy to use the AmeriBar system and pass the bar exam on my first attempt, and I hope the system would be just as effective for others.
AmeriBar was a very easy program to follow, with a very supportive staff. I would definitely encourage anyone to use them.
So, I can’t emphasize enough how much I would recommend AmeriBar to any student. I was able to pass the bar on the first attempt, even in a state that I didn’t go to law school in, and I feel like AmeriBar was a very significant contributing factor to my success on the bar exam.
You are also taking a step in the right direction by considering AmeriBar for your test materials.
My favorite of all was the star-scoring system in the MBE portion of the books...The customer service at AmeriBar was excellent...More than anything – beyond finding the right materials for me, being that I was a nontraditional student; working; and searching for an opportunity to study within my timeframe – AmeriBar offered their program at a great price.
The first time I took the bar exam, I took the Barbri program, which was a big, huge program where you don’t get a lot of individualized attention. However, the second time I took a bar preparation course, I took it through AmeriBar. AmeriBar really provided the one-on-one help that I needed to pass the bar.
When I received the materials, I think I had approximately two weeks before the bar exam....I was impressed with the ease of studying the outlines. And I was impressed with having materials focused on what would be on the bar exam.
I just want you to know that if I can do it, you can do it too. And thanks to the fantastic folks at AmeriBar. They’ve come up with a great course that for my money is the best one going for anyone preparing to take the bar exam. Thank you very much.
Studying with the AmeriBar materials made all the difference in the world to me.
This was the fourth time taking the bar ...and this time I passed. I used a competitor’s program for the prior three times, and I didn’t pass. I have to say that I think AmeriBar’s tutoring is what really pushed me over the top.
AmeriBar provides everything you need.... If you follow their study schedule and do everything you supposed to with the outlines, lectures and reviewing of the material, and you stick to it, you will be able to pass the bar exam... Stick to it and you’ll be successful.
I know it can be intimidating when you are looking at review courses and you start to see some review courses a lot less expensive than others, and you start thinking, ‘are they not going to give me everything I need? Why are they so much less expensive?’ I am so grateful that AmeriBar is less expensive than other review courses because it definitely packs a more full punch than the more expensive courses. I highly recommend it to anyone.
I highly recommend AmeriBar to anyone who is studying for a bar exam. I will definitely take this course again if I have to sit for another state’s bar. I’m incredibly grateful to AmeriBar for its fantastic program and amazing customer service, and I seriously give a lot of credit to AmeriBar for my success
And it turns out that AmeriBar had me even more thoroughly prepared than I had expected. I scored significantly above average.
I think having a personal tutor help to prepare me for the bar exam is the only reason I finally passed the bar. I can’t tell you how grateful I am to AmeriBar and their program.
Once you go with AmeriBar they will help you emotionally and academically. They will get you 100% ready for the bar exam... I’m grateful for AmeriBar – because they helped me accomplish my dream. And without them, I wouldn’t be an attorney today.
They offered seven hours of personal tutoring and I thought, ‘wow this is a program that is quite different.’ So I signed up and paid the money. Guess what? That was what helped me pass the bar.
I was deployed to a combat zone. So there were times I was attempting to do questions or essays - basically studying - and the alarm would sound off because the enemy had launched rocket-propelled grenades or mortars or vehicle born improvised explosive devices were occurring in the vicinity of our forward operating base.
Georgia Bar Review Course Student
I think AmeriBar is a great cost-effective way to study for the bar exam. You decide when, where, what and how you study. The materials they provide are very useful and helpful and you don’t need more than that.
I highly recommend this program.
So I sit before you today having passed the Bar thanks to AmeriBar. It was the best money I ever spent.
Overall AmeriBar was fantastic. I had feedback almost instantaneously when I had a question. And the value for the money I spent compared to my other classmates who paid thousands for their bar review course, I feel like I had better preparation for a lot less money than my classmates, and I highly recommend using the AmeriBar program. It’s efficient. It prepares you for what the examiners are going to ask you. .... So, two thumbs up to AmeriBar. They allowed me to pass the bar exam. And I highly recommend this program to anybody.
I was very pleased with the course, and I highly recommend it to anybody.
After three unsuccessful attempts at the bar exam, I felt as though as though I had nowhere to turn.... AmeriBar is a large contributor to my success in passing and achieving the dream of becoming a lawyer
I would recommend AmeriBar to anyone and everyone. It was just a really great program. The best thing about AmeriBar was the people. They were just wonderful. You feel like you have this team behind you rooting for you.
I think the best thing about the AmeriBar course was that it did not waste my time. I had a limited amount of study time every day and a limited number of days until I took the test. The AmeriBar course was concise and contained all the information I needed but not more information than I needed – no long extra explanations of superfluous material.
There is so much material you don’t know that you have to know for the bar exam, that you’ll get pushed through it and as long as you keep your study schedule, you follow the requirements that are set up by AmeriBar, and you keep your study schedule, I guarantee this is a program that will provide success on the bar exam.
I know it will work for you. AmeriBar has a fantastic program.
I didn’t just learn how to pass the test, I learned the law that was tested and I feel like I’m a better attorney because of it. I actually studied in a building; in a law school ... with a bunch of folks who were taking barbri and Kaplan courses and what I heard from them seemed to reinforce my thought that using AmeriBar was a good decision.
I think AmeriBar prepared me well… I don’t think there as anything on the bar exam that I hadn’t seen at least once in the materials from AmeriBar…. The materials provided by AmeriBar are just as good as the top competitor out there, which I’ve had experience with.
What impressed me the most about AmeriBar was that I was really able to tailor it to my own needs.
I have nothing but good things to say about the AmeriBar program. I passed on my first try, and if I passed on my first try, you can pass on your first try too
I would recommend AmeriBar for their stellar program, the cost – you can’t overlook that – and all the help they provide. Do your due diligence and I am sure you’ll come to the same conclusion. You really can’t argue with success.
I would definitely tell other law students about AmeriBar and I have. I really don’t see the point in spending $3,500 on some of the competitor programs that just I’ve never heard anything good about. The flexibility that this program offers, along with the cost savings – and that cost savings at the end of law school – is significant. And I felt like I was just as prepared as anybody else, if not more so because I was a lot more relaxed.
I felt so prepared and so well-versed in every area of the law for the exam. I never felt that way with BAR/BRI the first couple of times I took it. I can’t say enough about how well-prepared I felt and how relieved I was after failing twice to come back and just nail it after six years of absence from the law.
I took AmeriBar, I’m happy I did. And if I had to go back in time, I wouldn’t choose differently. Thank you very much.
I am 10 years out of law school and I finished in the 91st percentile on the bar exam my first try. I can’t imagine that any other course would have gotten me any better prepared..
The AmeriBar outlines were concisely written and easily readable. Following those outlines I was able to learn a great deal of material in a short amount of time. And I understood what I was actually reading.
Overall, Ameribar was a great value.
I would tell law students considering AmeriBar they should go with AmeriBar because the materials are put together in a superior way. They read much more smoothly. I think they’re put together in a more sequential and chronological way. They are far easier to comprehend, and learning it in a linear sequential way, the way AmeriBar has them set out, really helped me pass.
I give AmeriBar my highest recommendation, and if I were to sit for the bar in yet another state, I would again subscribe to AmeriBar without hesitation to get me through the law and guide me through the process. Thank you AmeriBar.
With the help of AmeriBar I passed the South Carolina bar. I wish I had known the first time and then I wouldn’t have had to take it twice.
Having a personal tutor is great because they give you one-on-one work, which you really can’t find anywhere else with any other bar prep program.
The written and other materials TELLING us how to approach studying really kept me on track . . . very very very helpful stuff. I followed it pretty closely. VERY good program, approach, lectures, written materials, all excellent. . . . And, of course, I'm thrilled I passed!!!!!

Here’s what you (our students) have told us.

  • You should expect personal service from flexible partners committed to your success.

“ I just wanted to let you know that I PASSED THE ILLINOIS BAR EXAM!   Yay! I wanted to say “thank you” so much for your wonderful bar course and great people like you who have always been supportive and nice. This is more than just a bar review course – it’s a phenomenal support system, too! AmeriBar has changed my life for the better!”

  • We’re here because you want to pass the bar exam and we want to help you do so.

“In Michigan, a passing score is 135 out of 200, and I got a score of 168 (173/200 on the MBE and 164/200 on the Michigan essays). I’m really glad to have passed, and am grateful to everyone at Ameribar for your assistance.”

  • We’re licensed attorneys who are bar exam experts and to us you are real person, a future colleague, and not just a number in a big box bar review company.

“I am just grateful that I finally found a service that was focused on my success and not just turning out a product that is produced for the masses. . . . I learned much more of the law using AmeriBar then I ever did with barbri….”

  • You deserve flexibility in your bar review course and prompt service with 24/7 access to professional tools that will help you pass the bar.

“I chose AmeriBar because it is a thorough bar review course that allowed me the flexibility to study around my own schedule… .  It’s probably the best option for studying for the bar.  High quality materials, pointed questions and flexibility. All of my interactions with the staff were positive. I always received a quick reply.”

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