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Hosted by Mike Spivey, founder and CEO of the Spivey Consulting Group, and Anna Hicks-Jaco, President of Spivey Consulting's law school admissions division. Status Check covers life and well-being plus all things law school and admissions. Our admissions advice comes from our Spivey Consulting team—who collectively have over 250 years of experience working in law school admissions offices, including at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Chicago, and Penn—and covers how to get into the best possible law school you can, plus news and predictions about the current state of law school admissions.
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Signup to Generate a PitchHosted by Mike Spivey, founder and CEO of the Spivey Consulting Group, and Anna Hicks-Jaco, President of Spivey Consulting's law school admissions division. Status Check covers life and well-being plus all things law school and admissions.
Status Check with Spivey is hosted by Spivey. The show has published 193 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Dean Z on 5 Famous First Lines from Literature as Personal Statement Openings" (20 October 2026, 9 minutes), "20 Easy Law School Application Fixes Before You Submit" (6 October 2026, 12 minutes), and "UVA Law Admissions Dean Natalie Blazer on Top 5 Tips, What Happened Last Cycle, & What’s to Come" (22 September 2026, 53 minutes).
Status Check with Spivey publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 43 minutes across 193 episodes.
Booking probability for Status Check with Spivey is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Status Check with Spivey requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Status Check with Spivey's contact route on record: verified email.
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Spivey hosts Status Check with Spivey, an education podcast with 193 episodes published.
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Status Check with Spivey
What makes a great law school personal statement opening sentence? In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Mike Spivey is joined by Sarah Zearfoss (Dean Z), Senior Assistant Dean at the University of Michigan Law...
Status Check with Spivey
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Anna Hicks-Jaco shares 20 easy law school application fixes crowdsourced from Spivey Consulting Group’s team of former admissions officers. From essay formatting and résumé...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Mike and Anna interview Natalie Blazer, the Dean of Admissions and Chief Admissions Officer at UVA Law. Mike and Dean Blazer discuss the unusual nature of this past...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Mike is joined by Dr. Milana Hogan, Chief Talent Officer at Sullivan & Cromwell, and Rob Baker, a former law firm hiring committee member and BigLaw attorney, for a...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Mike has a conversation with Simone Stolzoff, an author and journalist whose work explores uncertainty, ambition, and our relationship with work. Simone is the author of How...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Anna Hicks-Jaco is joined by three experienced law school financial aid professionals: Dalmarie Lawrence, Director of Financial Aid at the University of the District of...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Mike, joined by LSAT experts Graeme Blake and Ellen Cassidy, discusses the changes coming to the LSAT this August and the federal class-action lawsuit that LSAC is currently...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Legal Education Access Pipeline (LEAP) Founder & CEO, Cindy Lopez, joins us for a conversation with Paula Gluzman, Spivey’s Director of Diversity & Inclusion and a J.D...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Mike has a conversation with Orin Kerr, a prominent law professor and legal academic who currently serves as a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and a Senior Fellow at...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Anna Hicks-Jaco discusses the strategy of reapplying to law school, joined by former law school admissions officers and Spivey consultants Sir Williams and Julia Truemper...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Mike has a conversation with Vincent Sheu, an attorney and AI startup founder with a JD and a Master's in Computer Science from Stanford (in addition to degrees in...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Anna Hicks-Jaco has a conversation with two Spivey consultants and former law school admissions officers, Kristen Mercado and Nathan Neely , on the decision whether to...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Mike has a conversation with Rob Baker , a long-time practicing entertainment lawyer who has served on hiring committees for multiple law firms, ranging from biglaw to...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Mike discusses the five reasons that being denied from law school hurts—and the concrete ways that you can handle it. Mike mentions a few other podcasts and a video clip in...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , we take questions from Reddit ! Mike Spivey , Mike Burns , and Anna Hicks-Jaco discuss just how slow this cycle is (10:19) and how that might impact late-cycle applicants...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Mike has a conversation with Dr. Nita Farahany—speaker, author, Duke Law Distinguished Professor, and the Founding Director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society—on...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Dr. Guy Winch returns to the podcast for a conversation about his new book, Mind Over Grind: How to Break Free When Work Hijacks Your Life . They discuss burnout (especially...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Mike interviews General David Petraeus, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Four-Star General in the United States Army. He is currently a Partner at KKR...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Anna has an in-depth discussion on law school admissions interviews with two Spivey consultants—Sam Parker, who joined Spivey this past fall from her position as Associate...
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In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , Mike interviews Miller Leonard, author of How to Get a Job After Law School: The Job Won’t Find You (free online here ), on the lessons he’s learned about networking and...
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Executive Director of Network Engagement, California Attorney General's office
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Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke University, Duke University School of Law
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