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Steven L. Emanuel
Born1950 (age 73–74)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard Law School; Amherst College
Occupation(s)Author and Entrepreneur
EmployerWolters Kluwer
SpouseMarilyn Doreen Emanuel
Websitehttp://stevenemanuel.com/
http://www.emanuelbarprep.com/

Steven L. Emanuel is an American attorney who is an author of law school outlines and other law school study aids.

Education and bar admissions

Emanuel is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School.[1] He was admitted to the bar in the U.S. states of New York, Connecticut, Virginia, Maryland and Massachusetts.[2]

Outline business

Steven Emanuel started writing legal study aids to help fellow J.D. candidates while still a law student at Harvard in 1974.[1][3]

Steven Emanuel's father, Lazar Emanuel, was himself a lawyer and law school advice author.[4] Some time after Law School, Steven Emanuel founded Emanuel Publishing Corp. Under this umbrella organization he merged several series of study aids. These include CrunchTime, Law in a Flash, and Strategies & Tactics. His organization also eventually acquired the Siegel's series of law study aids. In 1995, Emanuel Publishing entered into an exclusive joint venture with Lexis-Nexis to make law outlines available online.[5]

One critique, expressed in the Washington Monthly, of the Emanuel Outlines and other similar summary guides is that they may oversimplify legal issues in order to make them more palatable to students and keep down the length of legal guides. For instance, Emanuel's 2008 Intellectual Property outline (author Margreth Barrett, Hastings law school) gives three pages to international copyright treaties. A copyright casebook by Gorman and Ginsburg, also intended for students, devotes an equal amount of space to an introduction and history of the subject. Only then does it launch into a specific description of copyright treaties. Emanuel contains no discussion of features common among the treaties, showing how being brief does not always clarify the legal matter at hand.

The entirety of Emanuel Publishing Corp. was sold to Aspen Publishing in 2001.[6] Steven Emanuel is still responsible for spearheading all edits and revisions to the Emanuel study aids and is a lecturer in the Wolters Kluwer / Aspen publishing bar review course.[7]

Family

He is married to Marilyn Doreen Mandel Emanuel (since June 1976), and they have five children.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Lecturer Bio: Emanuel Bar Prep". Wolters Kluwer Aspen Publishers. September 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-09-29. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
  2. ^ "New York State Attorney Details". courts.state.ny.us. September 2008. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
  3. ^ Pink, Daniel (November 1989). "Law school lite - law students depending on law outlines and summaries". Washington Monthly. Archived from the original on 2008-08-21. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
  4. ^ Martha Rush (Updated by Megan Alexander) (October 2005). "William and Mary Law School: How to Succeed in Law School". William and Mary. Archived from the original on 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
  5. ^ "LEXIS-NEXIS ANNOUNCES EXCLUSIVE JOINT VENTURE WITH EMANUEL LAW OUTLINES". PR Newswire. 9 June 1995. Retrieved 2008-09-20.[dead link]
  6. ^ "WOLTERS KLUWER ACQUIRES EMANUEL PUBLISHING CORP". Business Publisher. 31 January 2001. Retrieved 2008-09-20.[dead link]
  7. ^ Leslie Bonacum (28 February 2008). "Aspen Publishers to Offer Live Bar Review by Steve Emanuel". Wolters Kluwer NV. Archived from the original on 11 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
  8. ^ "Princeton Review". Dayton Daily News. 25 March 1996. Retrieved 2008-09-20.[dead link]

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