Meet Kerriann
Kerriann Stout, Vinco founder and CEO, brings nearly ten years of experience working in higher education and legal education to the Vinco community. In 2014 Kerriann founded Vinco as a bar exam coaching company to help students pass the bar exam with less stress and more confidence. Through the years, Vinco has organically grown to meet the needs of their community and now offers services for college students, law students, bar exam candidates, and professionals. Kerriann is also an Adjunct Professor at the college, master's, and law school levels. As an Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Kerriann teaches courses such as Public Policy, State and Local Government, Individual Liberties and the Bill of Rights, Leadership and Advocacy, Government Administration, and Politics Through Film. At the Master's level Kerriann teaches courses in Communication, Advocacy, and Leadership and Legislation and Regulation. As an Adjunct Professor of Law, Kerriann teaches courses in law school preparation and study skills, and bar preparation.   For several years, Kerriann was a columnist with both Above the Law and Ms. JD writing about topics relating to law school and the bar exam. Kerriann has also presented at multiple conferences on topics such as learning styles, bar exam preparation, law school study skills, and other related topics.
Posts by Kerriann
Top 5 Reasons Students Fail The Bar Exam

If you could take a magic pill and pass the bar exam, you would totally take it, right? Well, sorry, no such pill exists. Instead, passing the bar exam takes hard work and diligence. But it also requires you to avoid some very common pitfalls., The following are the most common reasons students fail the bar exam. Avoiding these traps will drastically increase your chances of passing the bar exam

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Finding the Line: A Crash Course in Law School Boundaries

Reflecting on my law school years always fills me with a solid mixture of nostalgia and terror. I am one of those weirdos who really loved law school, but that “ish” was hard, particularly the first year. Everything was brand new, and I, like many others, went through a lot of personal growth. This required redefining and resetting my own boundaries with the people who were in my life before law school as well as learning to navigate new boundaries with my law school peers, professors, and administrators.

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The Career Advice That Changed My Life

Like many lawyers, I was born prewired with a deep fear of failure. I spent a large portion of my life letting fear drive my decision making and avoiding pursuing the things that scared me. If I was unable to see a clear path to success on something, I found every excuse not to do it.

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