Education

What's New?

	2020 Education Track: Core competency sessions will help prepare you for what lies ahead in the future of the business of law.
	Legal Project Management Education Track: Sweeping changes in today’s legal marketplace have created incentives for law firms to manage legal matters more efficiently and effectively. Legal Project Management, a task-based approach to work process, provides the tools to better respond to client demands.
	Basic Education Track: Sessions offered in this track are available for all attendees with any working knowledge within the field of study. No advance preparation is necessary.
	Intermediate Education Track: Sessions offered in this track assume that attendees have a working knowledge in the field of study and have fewer than 10 years in the legal industry.
	Advanced Education Track: Sessions offered in this track assume that attendees have more than 10 years of experience and/or an advanced degree in the field of study.

What's Back?

Virtual Conference: Select sessions will be broadcast via simulcast. Learn more.

CLM Application Track: Attendees can earn all 10 hours of General Education Requirements for taking the Certified Legal Manager exam.

	Communications & Organizational Management (CM) View track.
	Financial Management (FM) View track.
	Human Resources Management (HR) View track.
	Legal Industry/Business Management (LI) View track.
	Operations Management (OM) View track.

Session Code Key
CM – Communications & Organizational Management
FM – Financial Management
HR – Human Resources Management
LI – Legal Industry/Business Management
OM – Operations Management

Answers to Today's Issues and Tomorrow's Challenges

Choose from more than 80 education sessions in five key legal management areas: Communications and Organizational Management, Finance Management, Human Resources Management, Operations Management/IT and Legal Industry/Business Management. Download the PDF list of sessions.

Hot Topics

Communications/Organizational Management

CM14 Old School, New School: Engaging, Retaining and Managing Change in a Multigenerational Workplace
Speaker: Lora Haines
April 3
1:45-3:15 p.m.

Financial Management

FM32 Payroll Mistakes that Can Land You in Hot Water
Speaker: Lauraine Bifulco
April 5
1:15-2:30 p.m.

Human Resources Management

HR30 Marijuana in the Workplace
Speaker: Mary A. Celeste
April 5
8:30-9:30 a.m.

Operations Management

OM20 Hacking: The Threat from Within
Speakers: Rob Kleeger, Pamela Blank Woodruff
April 4
2:45-4:15 p.m.

Legal Industry/Business Management

LI32 Alternative Approaches to Secretarial Support
Speakers: Mark Santiago, P. Douglas Benson, Gera Vaz
April 5
1:15-2:45 p.m.

Diversity and Inclusion

Leading with Inclusion Idea Exchange
April 2
3:15-4:30 p.m.

ALA's Committee on Diversity and Inclusion
Watch the video below to learn about this important committee.