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Professor Minneti leads the Law School's Academic Excellence and Bar Success Programs. He works with a team of professional academic support and bar preparation specialists whose focus is to equip students with the academic and executive function skills and mindsets they need to accomplish their personal best in law school and pass the bar exam on their first attempt. Professor Minneti teaches academic skill-oriented courses, including Foundations of Law Study and Enhanced Analytical Skills. Professor Minneti directs the Law School's Access Admission Program (formerly known as the ARC). He teaches Criminal Law to students entering through the Program, and together with the Academic Excellence and Bar Success Team, he partners with the Access Admission students throughout their law school experience. Professor Minneti regularly meets with students who are academically struggling, students who are seeking to enhance their academic performance, and students who are preparing for the bar exam.

Isabel Freitas Peres is the Director of Bar Success and Adjunct Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. She teaches the Bar Strategies and Skills course for third year law students. Isabel is a licensed attorney in both the State of New York and the State of Washington, and uses her experience from preparing for Bar exams to design a class that focuses on an intensive and substantive review of Bar tested materials coupled with strategies and exercises to improve students' test-taking skills.