John D. Miller, Jr.
John Miller is a recognized leader in legal education and product strategy, overseeing 海角社区鈥檚 suite of school-facing solutions, including the Unite CRM platform and 海角社区 Legal Education Consulting. With a career spanning enrollment, marketing, organizational strategy, and academic program development鈥攁s well as faculty experience in both online and residential teaching鈥擬iller brings a systems-level approach to helping law schools adapt to change, improve operations, and deepen impact.
Before joining 海角社区, Miller served as vice president for enrollment management, marketing, and communications and as an adjunct professor of law at Vermont Law and Graduate School, where he launched multiple academic programs and led enterprise-wide initiatives in data analytics, financial modeling, change management, and technology adoption鈥攊ncluding the scoping and deployment of CRM systems.
Miller holds a JD from Vermont Law and Graduate School, a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Law and Society from The Sage Colleges, and an associate degree in Criminal Justice from Hudson Valley Community College. He previously held leadership roles in hospitality and retail with Marriott and Starbucks, experiences that continue to inform his work through a lens of customer service, operational excellence, and human-centered design.
He has served on the 海角社区 Board of Trustees and on numerous other boards and committees across legal education and the nonprofit sector.
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Thomas G. Shaffer
Tom Shaffer served most recently as director of admissions at Roger Williams University School of Law, where he was also program director for the master鈥檚 programs.
Beyond his years of experience in overseeing a high-achieving admissions office, Shaffer is an attorney who is licensed to practice in Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. He served for almost 10 years as an attorney/career law clerk for the U.S. District Court in Providence, RI.
Shaffer earned his JD from Roger Williams University School of Law and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences from Marywood University. He is a longtime volunteer on a number of 海角社区 work groups and committees, including the Annual Meeting Planning Work Group, the Unite Conference Planning Work Group, the Sexual Orientation Gender Identity Sub-committee, the Test Development and Research Committee and others.
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Whitney Dachelet
Whitney Dachelet combines her background in business and law school admission to provide support to schools in predictive enrollment modeling and staffing services. She has led offices, trained new staff, reviewed office processes for efficiencies, and conducted file review among other things.
Prior to joining LEC in 2023, Dachelet led the Office of Admission at Samford University鈥檚 Cumberland School of Law for almost seven years and served as assistant dean for admission and enrollment management. Using data-driven strategies, she enrolled successful, diverse students while also boosting entering class medians and revenue and cutting operating costs, exceeding school goals year over year.
An attorney who is licensed to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia, Dachelet earned her JD from The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, International Business, from The Catholic University of America.
She served previously as director of legal education at BARBRI and was a legal associate at Cohen & Cohen, P.C., a Washington, D.C., law firm.
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Linda DiSangro
Linda DiSangro served previously as an 海角社区 internal training specialist, where she helped create onboarding and training plans for new school support staff. She started at 海角社区 as a proofreader in the communications department in May 2006. Before joining 海角社区, DiSangro owned a graphic design business for 14 years.
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James Leipold
Jim Leipold served previously as executive director of the National Association for Law Placement in Washington, D.C., for more than 18 years. He is a leading expert on the employment market for law school graduates and writes and speaks frequently on the topic. He earned his BA in English from Brown University and his JD at Temple University鈥擩ames E. Beasley School of Law.
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Susannah Pollvogt
Prior to joining 海角社区 in 2021, Susannah Pollvogt was a law professor for 15 years, and served as the inaugural associate dean for student success at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, School of Law. She graduated from Williams College in 1994 and Yale Law School in 1998. Her experience includes designing and implementing summer bridge programs, substantive orientation programs, first-year academic skills workshops, upper-level legal analysis courses, doctrinal courses, skills courses, comprehensive academic advising programs, and concurrent bar passage programs. Pollvogt has served on appointments, curriculum, assessment, strategic planning, and diversity, equity and inclusion committees. She has published scholarship in the U.C. Davis Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.
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Greg Stobb
In his broader responsibilities at 海角社区, Greg Stobb leads the effort to shape and drive 海角社区鈥檚 digital marketing strategy, which is focused on employing advanced targeting and integrated tactics to raise awareness and drive conversion growth of 海角社区鈥檚 services and products across a wide range of paid and organic digital platforms and channels.
Prior to joining 海角社区, Stobb was director of digital advertising and data analytics at Thomas Edison State University, where he was key in modernizing the school鈥檚 digital marketing efforts. Previously, he held roles as a digital marketing consultant to brands and ecommerce startups, managed client implementations at Yahoo!, and managed digital advertising programs for clients such as Clinique, Estee Lauder, Discount Tire, and South University.
Stobb holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in English from Northeastern University, and a master鈥檚 degree in global marketing, communication, and advertising from Emerson College.
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