Dennis Tonsing breaks law school learning strategies into understandable, logical, and practical steps that maximize the effect of students’ study efforts, and he explicitly ties those learning strategies to the strategies practicing lawyers use to understand, analyze, and apply legal concepts in the real-life representation of their clients.”

~ Professor Daniel Weddle, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

Dennis Tonsing practiced law from 1974 to 1992 in California. He attended Saint Mary’s College of California (B.A., 1969), Southwestern University School of Law (J.D., 1973), and Northern Arizona University (M.A., 1995). He has taught in a wide range of academic settings: high schools, colleges, universities, graduate school, and law schools for nearly twenty years. In those capacities and as a frequent speaker at law schools and pre-law workshops around the country, he has met with and counseled thousands of men and women as they begin their careers as lawyers.

While writing 1000 Days to the Bar - But the Practice of Law Begins Now, he was serving as Dean of Students and Director of the Academic Support Program at Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol, Rhode Island. 

For several years Dennis has taught online as a Senior Instructor for Concord Law School, helping students unravel the mysteries of how to achieve their personal best when answering exam questions they encounter in law school and on the California State Bar Exam.

Dennis lives in Piriápolis, Uruguay, where he remains in virtual contact  with the U.S. law school community on a daily basis.

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