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Education By Category
Not sure which sessions to attend? Select a "track" to follow based on your level of expertise or area of interest. Check out this year's education tracks below.
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.
Tuesday, April 4
7:30-9 a.m.
OM21: Operational Excellence: Legal Process Improvement Applied to Business and Administrative Functions
9:45-11:15 a.m.
FM22: Client Profitability: Analysis to Action
2:45-4:15 p.m.
OM24: Practical Legal Project Management: Kick-starting an LPM Initiative
2020 Education Track
Core competency sessions will help prepare you for what lies ahead in the future of the business of law.
Monday, April 3
1:45-3 p.m.
HR13: Examining the HR Trends That Are Shaping Law Firms for the Future
4-5:30 p.m.
Law is a Buyer's Market: Transforming Law Firms to Respond to a New Competitive Environment
Tuesday, April 4
9:45-11:15 a.m.
FM22: Client Profitability: Analysis to Action
2:45-4:15 p.m.
OM24: Practical Legal Project Management: Kick-starting an LPM Initiative
Wednesday, April 5
8:30-9:30 a.m.
OM30: Design Opportunities for the Next Generation of Law Firms
1:15-2:45 p.m.
LI32: Alternative Approaches to Secretarial Support
3-4 p.m.
LI33: The Tsunami Impact Is Now Here
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.
Communications & Organizational Management (CM)
Financial Management (FM)
Human Resources Management (HR)
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Legal Industry/Business Management (LI)
Operations Management (OM)
CLM Application Track
All applicants for the CLM program must meet certain education prerequisites before sitting for the CLM exam. At this conference, one or more sessions will assist you in meeting the educational prerequisite requirements. All such sessions have been clearly labeled with the CLM logo. A CLM Application Course List will be available to keep track of the sessions you attend and to help you plan.
HRCI Sessions
The 2017 Annual Conference & Expo is being reviewed and hours for HRCI recertification credits are currently being calculated. Please check back for details.
SHRM Sessions
The 2017 Annual Conference & Expo is being reviewed and hours for SHRM recertification credits are currently being calculated. Please check back for details.