Education Overview

What’s New?

Add a Valuable Dimension to Your Professional Development

Sessions offer you the potential to earn credit toward your professional certification. Demonstrate your competency and establish to your firm that you function with a high level of expertise in the field of legal management.

ALT (The Association of Legal Technologists)

• OM14: Outsourcing IT Functions: Is It a Good Idea?
• OM24: Legal Technology 101: Must Haves and More
• OM25: Artificial Intelligence 101
• OM34: Brave New Law Firm: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain

Cybersecurity

• OM10: Cyber Scenario Simulated Firm Attacks
• OM12: In the Cyber Trenches with a Legal Management Professional and Cyber Forensics Expert
• OM13: The Legal Requirements Following a Data Breach

Profitability, Partner Compensation and Pricing

• FM24: Rethinking Profitability in a Changing Marketplace
• FM30: Rethinking Partner Compensation in a Changing Marketplace
• FM31: Rethinking Pricing in a Changing Marketplace

Legal Lean Sigma® and Project Management Yellow Belt Certification Course

Join us for this two-day program that includes lectures, exercises, simulations, videos, discussions, group and table-team work, and demonstrations covering key Process Improvement (PI) methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma), tools, and concepts, and the stages of Project Management (PM). Held immediately after Annual Conference & Expo to minimize your time out of the office and reduce your travel expenses.

Answers to Today’s Issues and Tomorrow’s Challenges 

Choose from more than 70 education sessions in five key legal management areas: Communications and Organizational Management, Financial Management, Human Resources Management, Operations Management/IT, and Legal Industry/Business Management.

Educational Hot Topics

Monday, April 15

• CM10: Leading the Way: Inspiring Go-Getters and Game Changers
• FM10: Costly Surprises: Hidden Tax Liabilities for Law Firms and How to Avoid Them
• FM11: Best Practices in Support Staff Leverage: How to Run a more Efficient Law Firm and Improve Profit Margins While Maximizing Staff Productivity
• OM10: Cyber 1 – Cyber Scenario Simulated Firm Attacks
• OM12: Cyber 2 – In the Cyber Trenches with a Legal Management Professional and Cyber Forensics Expert
• OM13: Cyber 3 – The Legal Requirements Following a Data Breach

Tuesday, April 16

• CM20: Harnessing Headwinds
• CM23: Creating a Culture of Excellence
• FM24: Rethinking Profitability in a Changing Marketplace
• LI21: Every Choice Has a Consequence
• LI22: Improving Management Decisions Using Process Mapping and Industry Standards

Wednesday, April 17

• CM30: Better Way to Great
• CM33: Communicating with Influence and Impact in the High-Stakes Legal Environment
• FM32: The Performance Metrics Dashboard: A Powerful Management Tool!  
• HR33: Protecting Your Firm: Workplace Investigations
• OM32: How Environmental Sustainability Drives Success in Operational Management