About The Instructor

Emerson Stafford is a Member of the State Bar of California and is the primary instructor for the course.

He has been preparing students for the California Bar Exam, as a full time activity, for 32 years. Several thousand of his former students are now practicing law in California. He is also a current adjunct professor at three Bay Area law schools.

Before becoming a lawyer, he worked as a mathematician in the aerospace industry. He also taught electronics, nuclear physics, analog and digital computer technology, and university level mathematics.

He has informal publications on the use of Z-transforms in digital simulations, on the numerical calculation of high order Bessel Functions, and mathematical filters used to improve the signal to noise ratio in experimental data.

He grew up in Los Angeles, moved to San Francisco during the revolution of the 60's, and has lived here since that time.