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  The on-demand professional skills resource
  your firm will be proud to offer to your lawyers and staff. 

• ​Professional Essentials for ​Lawyers & Staff

  ​Junior Associates | Mid-Level Associates | Senior Associates | New Partners | Administrative Personnel
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  Professional Essentials for Developing Your Talent

  Managing Yourself & Your Practice | Serving Clients & Growing Your Practice | Establishing Yourself as a Leader
  ​Leading & Managing Others | Understanding the Business of Law
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  ​Professional Essentials for Firm-Wide Initiatives

  Well-Being Initiatives | Mentoring Programs | Performance Evaluations | Fostering Inclusivity | Remote Work Initiatives

Curated Content. In-Demand Skills.  ​
The Professional Essentials library makes it easy for you to provide your firm an on-demand professional skills library you can be proud of – and that looks and feels like you created it in-house. Whether you’re looking to supplement the onboarding and orientation of junior associates, elevate the leadership skills of your mid-level and senior associates, expand the professional skills of your staff, or support your firm-wide initiatives, this service has modules to help. 

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"We LOVE your work!  Your modules are very timely, targeted, practical, actionable, no nonsense, 10-15 minutes max, divided into subsections so they can pick & choose which to go to ... solid, seamless, professional!  We're really happy."  ​
Laura Rogora, Professional Development and Inclusion Manager
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.

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"The Professional Essentials and your company's customer service are terrific.  The eLearning modules are an integral part of our career advising program.  The short, effective guidance is coupled with engaging visuals and interactive exercises.  They definitely enhance the professional development of our lawyers and we recommend their use to others."
Traci Mundy Jenkins, Director of Career Development
​Venable LLP

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Ready to Brand & Customize for Your Firm.
With input from our law firm clients and industry leaders, we’ve chosen the most in-demand topics, done the research, crafted the messages, and packed each topic into a 15-minute-or-less practical, actionable, engaging, interactive, web-accessible learning module. These modules are ready to be branded to your firm and customized further (if desired) – or can be rolled out exactly as designed. 

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Using the Modules.
These modules are designed to be easily leveraged to create a robust, multi-faceted blended learning program. Each module can be used in a variety of ways. 

​For example: Assign the modules to specific audiences for independent self-study, as pre-work in advance of live training events, or as the foundation for facilitated learning discussions, leveraging provided step-by-step facilitation guides for select modules. They are also an effective resource to supplement one-on-one coaching or as follow-ups to performance improvement conversations. 

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​​Implementation Toolkit.
Leverage the Tips, Tools, and Templates provided in our Implementation Toolkit to help you get the most out of your Professional Essentials subscription.

​Our Ten Tips to Getting Started will guide you through best practices in rolling out your elearning program, while templates for conducting your Needs Analysis by Audience and by Firm Initiative will guide you through identifying your most pressing needs and selecting Professional Essentials programs to help address them.​

Roll-out Plan templates provide structure for outlining how and when you’ll leverage each of the modules. And our Actionable Ideas guide provides a variety of ideas for leveraging the modules in creative ways.

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Leverage in Multiple Ways.
Self-Study
Enable anytime access to the library for lawyers & staff to develop skills independently. Or assign modules & deadlines to individuals for targeted development of specific skillsets.

​Pre-Work
Assign a specific module(s) as pre-work in advance of a live session to set the stage for a more in-depth discussion.   

Facilitated Discussion
Host small facilitated discussion groups that leverage the module and our provided facilitator guides.   

Join our growing family of Professional Essentials subscribers.

Here are just a few of the dozens of firms that are providing Professional Essentials courses to their lawyers and staff.

How It Works.
Choose the modules you’d like to add to your library. If you’d like, we’ll brand each module to your firm. We can even add links to firm policies & resources and customize each module further to create messaging that is 100% spot-on for your firm.

Leverage the Professional Essentials Client Portal to manage all elements of your subscription, review newly-added modules and add titles for your library.

Build Your Own Learning Program.
Choose from any of these pre-packaged series or mix-and-match the programs to build your own library to meet your firm’s current training needs.  

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Sample.
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Sample Professional Essentials Series
Elearning Course

Your Site Or Ours?
Our goal is to make launching and tracking Professional Essentials courses as easy for you as possible. We offer multiple flexible hosting and reporting options: Host everything yourself or let us handle it for you – on a firm-branded, web-accessible platform with complete tracking and reporting functionality.  ​​

Assign or recommend courses
Create User Groups & Learning Paths

Issue certificates of completion
Track and report usage

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Frequently Asked Questions
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What is Professional Essentials?

​Professional Essentials is a fast, easy, cost-effective way to provide a meaningful, scalable suite of short, on-demand professional skills courses for lawyers and staff that your firm will be proud of –
and that looks and feels like you created it in-house (if you choose the optional branding & customization services). A subscription to Professional Essentials allows you to choose up to a pre-defined number of modules – based on your chosen subscription size – to leverage firm-wide over the course of your subscription period. 

How do Professional Essentials courses differ from other elearning libraries out there?

In several ways.  First, Professional Essentials courses have been designed specifically for law firms.  And all of the topics have been created based on input from our law firm clients – and we continue to add new courses frequently, based on new requests and emerging trends in the legal community.  In addition, all of the modules are designed to be both practical and actionable, so that the learner can immediately reflect on and apply what they’ve learned. Finally, the modules are created with a strategic combination of professional narration, engaging graphics and animations, and interactivity, in addition to pause-and-reflect moments, to increase engagement, retention, and ultimately real-world application. 

How long is each course?

​Most courses run 15 minutes or less, ideal for learning in short bursts. A few are as short as 7 or 8 minutes, while there are a couple that run about 17 or 18 minutes.  

How are these modules intended to be used?

The idea is that they can be used in a variety of ways. Assign the modules to specific audiences for independent self-study, as pre-work in advance of live training events, or as the foundation for facilitated learning discussions, leveraging provided step-by-step facilitation guides for select modules. They are also an effective resource to supplement one-on-one coaching or as follow-ups to performance improvement conversations. Other creative ideas can be found in the Actionable Ideas guide, included with your subscription.

What are the next steps, after I’ve subscribed?

​We’ll have a kick-off call to orient you to the service and how it works. We’ll also talk through your specific training needs and objectives, and provide a variety of tips, suggestions, and templates to get you started, based on your specific needs. We’ll also set you up with password-protected access to the Professional Essentials Client Portal, which will allow you to review all available modules, see additional titles that are coming soon, and select the modules you’d like to include in your firm’s library. 

Once I’ve selected modules for my firm, where are they accessed for firm-wide use? ​

You have a couple of options. You can host the courses on your firm's learning management system (LMS) or intranet server - or let us handle hosting for you. If you host them on your firm’s LMS, we’ll provide you with a SCORM file for you to upload to your system. 

How does hosting by LawFirmElearning work?

​If you leverage our platform, we’ll provide a firm-branded, web-accessible, password-protected site featuring all of the modules you’ve licensed. You’ll also have access to an easy-to-use Administrative Control Panel, through which you can easily add new users, organize them into groups, send email announcements and assignments, and run reports on usage. (Additional fees apply.)

In reviewing available modules for selection, what’s the idea behind viewing modules by Audience?

Viewing by audience can help you quickly narrow the list of modules that you might like to review further for a particular group of people. If your focus is on training Junior Associates, for example, take a look at all of the modules we’ve identified as appropriate for that audience. If you’d like to see what modules are appropriate for Mid-Levels, Senior Associates, New Partners, Summer Associates, or Administrative Personnel, those are options as well.

What’s the idea behind viewing by Category / Initiative?    ​

​Viewing by category/initiative can also help you quickly narrow the list of modules into defined sub-sets for easier review and consideration. If you’re looking to add more topics related to client service or business development, for example, review modules listed under Serving Clients & Growing Your Practice. If you’re looking for learning modules to support specific firm-wide initiatives – like your Well-Being initiative, Mentoring program, or Diversity & Inclusion initiative, for example – review modules under those similarly-named categories. 

What are my branding options for the modules?

​We can brand each module for you in two ways.

1. Brand the title slide for each module – to include your logo & a firm-specific image.
2. Complete a full-color rebranding of each module to align with your firm’s colors.

(Note: Branding is not included in the annual subscription fee. Additional fees apply.) 

Can we have links to our policies or other resources added to the modules?

Yes. We can customize any element of the Professional Essentials courses to include firm-specific information, links, resources, video, terminology. We can update narration, on-screen text, or both.  To request a customization, outline your requests and we’ll provide an estimate of the one-time customization cost for your approval before proceeding. ​

How do the facilitator guides work? ​

Many of the modules are well-suited to be used as the centerpiece of facilitated discussions. For those specific modules, we’ve created a PE Facilitator Guide to guide you – or one of your colleagues – in leading a discussion around the module. This type of learning format encourages a deeper level of engagement with the topic and group discussion to further enhance the learning.  The guides direct the facilitator step-by-step, encouraging them to pause at designated locations within the module to ask questions and spark discussion.

How can I see a complete list of modules available to choose from?

​Contact us via the form below to request access to our current list of modules. 

Whatever your on-demand learning need may be, we can help. 

202.529.2360

info@lawfirmelearning.com