Ira L. Shafiroff

Ira L. Shafiroff is a professor of law at Southwestern Law School where he has been teaching since 1982. He teaches Property and, for many years, Selected Topics in American Law, a course he designed to prepare students for the California bar exam, emphasizing bar essay exam writing and multiple choice testing. Professor Shafiroff was a longtime lecturer for BARBRI Bar Review, the nation’s largest and oldest bar review company, where he created and taught California BARBRI’s first essay writing course for its general bar review program. Professor Shafiroff subsequently created an essay writing course for first-year law school students. The first edition of First-Year Law School Success was an outgrowth of this course. Professor Shafiroff has taught literally thousands of students essay writing for the California bar exam and law school. He has also taught bar exam multiple choice testing for Barpassers Bar Review.

Professor Shafiroff earned his B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) from Brooklyn College, CUNY, and his J.D. (Magna Cum Laude) from Southwestern Law School, the latter at night while working as an IRS agent during the day.