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Professor Varanini

@professorvaranini.bsky.social
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Law professor teaching academic and bar success. She/her/hers. Lover of books 📚, the law ⚖️, pets 🐾, and crafts 🪡. 📍Bay Area

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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I’m looking forward to reading this 👇
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Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Such an interesting article on the eugenic roots of the three-strike rules by @danielloehr.bsky.social 👇🔥
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The short version is that ACOTAR 1 was a little slow for me but the subsequent books picked up and I enjoyed the series more. It’s spicy fantasy 🔥 🌶️ 💫✨ I am enjoying TOG 😊 How can you go wrong with a lady assassin?!
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I am very curious to hear your thoughts! (I’m currently reading her Throne of Glass series, about to start book 4 😅) 🌹
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Wow! Huge CONGRATULATIONS to you 🥳🥳🥳👏👏👏
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Whoever finds the mini dog biscuit in the bathroom at work will be very, very confused.
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Thank you so much 🙏 That’s really kind of you to say 🥰🥹
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
TGIF I preordered myself this book today 😬🥰📚
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 06/04/2025
I taught a US citizenship class to South Sudanese refugees in Nebraska, 2006-2007. Fleeing civil war, they worked arduous jobs at a meat packing plant. Many had no literacy in any language. But they studied hard for a citizenship exam which many native-born Americans would not be able to pass.
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#booksky #fungrammar
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I love this! I will definitely be adopting it
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Many times when I start an email from my phone, I accidentally type “Ho” instead of “Hi.” 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ Luckily, I catch it often. On the bad days, I don’t. 🫠😵‍💫
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The Girl From Greenwich Street by Lauren Willig. It’s historical fiction about the first murder trial in the US. Willig conducted two years of research (masters in history, also a lawyer) before writing it. Enjoying it a lot!
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Sending my most heartfelt condolences to you and your family. Please know that you’re all in my thoughts 🙏
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
💓💓💓💓💓
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Anne Caprara @annecaprara.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
emotional support pickle 🥒
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
You’re welcome! Thank you for all of your hard work on this project and making it available to all of us. No small feat!
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Here’s what captured my attention about the book: “It specifically examines the South Dakota Rural Attorney Recruitment Program, which is the first program of its kind in the US and has seen great success in helping to attract new lawyers to small towns.”
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Congratulations and HAPPY PUB DAY to @haksgaard.bsky.social 🥳🥳🥳 Her book looks phenomenal! You can pick up a copy at the link below 👇
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Absolutely! And I refer to it often. Thank you for the important work you do 🙏
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I often learn the most and feel the most validated during webinars like these. I deeply value my academic support and bar success colleagues 💓
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Great shout out to UNEQUAL PROFESSION by @meeradeo.bsky.social. Available via @stanfordpress.bsky.social here: www.sup.org/books/law/un...
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Unequal Profession | Stanford University Press
This book is the first formal, empirical investigation into the law faculty experience using a distinctly intersectional lens, examining both the personal and professional lives of law faculty members...
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Attending this webinar today: Marginalization in the Legal Academy: A Case Study of Academic Support. Such a phenomenal panel👏👏👏
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
States innovating regarding licensure: Nevada, Oregon, Washington, South Dakota, Arizona, Utah, New Hampshire
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
If you want to know how to change licensing for lawyers, listen to them!
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I cannot overstate how great this panel discussion is. People like @joanhowarth.bsky.social, @professorgriggs.bsky.social, Steve Bracci, and Martin Pritikin are talking about how to license attorneys in a way that’s better for EVERYONE.
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Very excited for this webinar that’s about to begin: The Future of Bar Admissions. It’s critically important, especially in light of the chaos that was the February 2025 California bar exam and with the Next Gen Bar Exam on the horizon.
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
You can read the letter from the deans here: fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Looks like the California Bar Exam will be back to in person testing for July: newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/califor...
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California Supreme Court Issues Statement on February Bar Exam
The California Supreme Court has issued a statement on the "troubling reports of technical failures, delays, and other irregularities" in last week's administration of the California Bar Examination.
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
All deans at CA ABA accredited law schools wrote and sent a letter. I worked with wonderful ASPB folks in California on a letter that was sent out today. This is big and many of us are advocating for better.
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A reminder to share your thoughts about the February 2025 California Bar Exam by 2pm Pacific today. It’s so important that The California Supreme Court, Bar Examiners, and Board of Trustees hear from us at tomorrow’s meeting. A short email will do: secretariat@calbar.ca.gov
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Josh Douglas @joshuaadouglas.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I'm crowd sourcing ideas about why we should care about voter turnout for my new book. If you're interested in providing your thoughts, please respond here: forms.gle/8z5hnK7B1Ppc...
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Why Should We Care About Voter Turnout?
A place for Professor Josh Douglas of the University of Kentucky to crowd source information for his new book, tentatively titled The Forgotten 1/3
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Not in the least bit.
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The Heritage Foundation has a short survey about DOGE and cuts to government spending if you’d like to share your thoughts: secured.heritage.org/the-doge-sur...
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The Heritage DOGE Survey | The Heritage Foundation
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Heads up, lawyers and law students. The @americanbar.org is stepping up. www.abajournal.com/web/article/...
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Free virtual boot camp seeks to recruit and educate civil rights advocates
The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
TGIF! I invite you to scream with me, if you’re feeling so inclined.
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If the bar exam is a requirement for licensure, it must be better than this for our bar studiers.
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
You can comment at the meeting and/or submit a comment, regardless of whether you can attend. Email: secretariat@calbar.ca.gov
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
You can review the agenda here: calbar.primegov.com/Portal/Meeti...
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
One of the agenda items is consideration of approving a supplemental contract with Meazure Learning (the vendor that hosted some of the in person testing sites and software) and ProctorU (the vendor that provided the remote proctoring).
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If you're a law student, you sat for the exam, or an attorney and you have concerns about the exam, I encourage you to send a letter to share those concerns. There's a Board of Trustees meeting on Wednesday, March 5th.
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Students experienced a number of issues related to exam functionality while taking the test (e.g., copy and paste didn't work, lag times while typing) to an inability to log into the exam completely. You can read more about it here: taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog...
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TaxProf Blog: California Bar Exam Suffers Catastrophic Meltdown: ‘I’ve Never Had This Much Despair And Hopelessness’
The Recorder, Who Answers for Botched February California Bar Exam? So Far, Nobody: As California's online bar exam was plagued with another day of system crashes, freezes and late starts, leaders of ...
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This week was extremely difficult for California Bar takers. Approximately 5,000 examinees sat for the California State Bar Exam. A number of changes were implemented prior to the exam and they resulted in a massive exam failure that may have impacted all applicants in one way or another.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Watching @pbs @americanexperience.bsky.social on Walter White, the early and decades-long leader of the NAACP in the first half of the 20th century. LEARN about him. www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
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Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP | American Experience | PBS
The story of civil rights hero Walter White — one of the most influential Black men in mid-century America and leader of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955, yet one of the least known figures in civil rights history.
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Same here! I really appreciate how responsive the staff is where I’m at, which is why I switched to them from another pharmacy. But yeah, the app and the system 🥴🫠
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I’m so sorry. Me and CVS pharmacy … let’s just say I understand your pain. Sending hugs!
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The book is such an important read, especially as more than 30 states have adopted the NGBE (NextGen Bar Exam) or are adopting other changes (CA I’m looking at you).
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Professor Varanini @professorvaranini.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
If you want to read an excellent and well-researched book on the future of attorney licensing, based on the history of bar exams and law schools, grab a copy of Joan’s book. She provided a discount code! 👇
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