Lee Faller Burgess, Founder & Tutor
Lee Faller Burgess is a licensed attorney in California (who passed the bar on her first attempt). She received her JD, cum laude, from the University of San Francisco School of Law in May 2008. She graduated as a member of the McAuliffe Honor Society. While in law school, Lee was the managing editor of the USF Law Review and received CALI awards for excellence in legal research and writing, family law and forensic evidence. She received her BA in psychology (organizational) and media studies with departmental honors from Claremont McKenna College, where she won a “Best Thesis” award. Lee published an article based on her psychology research and presented it at the Western Psychological Association Conference.
Lee worked as a consultant after college prior to attending law school. She assisted in the project management of large software implementations around the state. During law school, she was a clerk for the U.S. Attorney’s Office and a summer associate at a large international law firm. After law school she joined the same law firm and practiced commercial litigation.
Lee was already an experienced private tutor before starting Amicus Tutoring. For her last two years of law school, she worked with first-year law students tutoring them in both group and one-on-one settings. Lee has also worked for a test preparation company tutoring students on a one-on-one basis for the SAT and she was a teaching assistant at Claremont McKenna College. Lee returned to the USF School of Law in 2010, as adjunct faculty, to work with students having academic concerns.
Please see the Law School Tutoring and Bar Exam Tutoring pages for more information on how Amicus Tutoring can help you with your bar or exam preparation.
