• Bite-Size, On-Demand, Customizable Professional Skills For Lawyers & Staff

    A suite of 100+ on-demand short, interactive learning modules created specifically for lawyers and law firm business professionals.

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They’re not soft skills.
They’re essential skills.

Elevate essential skills in your lawyers and staff via Professional Essentials.

Whether you want to equip new, junior associates with the “power skills” they didn’t learn in law school, or you need to train managers on effective leadership techniques, there’s a SkillBurst for that.

Build your online, on-demand training library with engaging, bite-size, 15-minutes-or-less courses made JUST for lawyers and staff.

Have each module customized as much or as little as you’d like

Use right out-of-the-box or have us customize to make each Professional Essentials module feel like it was built just for you.

Reflect your firm’s brand, include your content and vocabulary, and align seamlessly with your other training materials.

Any course can be customized with:

  • Your logo, colors, and images

  • Links to your policies and resources

  • Firm-specific content and terminology

  • Your preferred messaging

We even customize to present the modules in different languages.

Whether using our courses ready-made or tailored to fit, you’ll deliver an engaging experience that will impress both learners and leadership.

(above) Out-of-the-box course design example.

The same course, customized to reflect a client’s brand.

Professional Essentials: Embraced by law firms across the globe

"Professional Essentials and your 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

"Professional Essentials gives us readily available, interactive training specifically tailored to our law firm learning needs. It’s a fantastic resource, as is the SkillBurst team. They make it extremely easy for us to deliver critical skill training effectively and efficiently to all our learners on-demand."

Tammie Garner, Chief Legal Performance Officer
Jackson Lewis P.C.

Branded to the firm
Have us add your logo or create a full-color rebrand.

Highly customizable
We can tailor the content to make it uniquely yours.

Designed for both self-study and blended learning
Leverage step-by-step facilitator guides for select modules.

One-size-fits all? Not at all
Choose the specific topics that align with your firm’s needs.

Developed specifically for law firms
No generic cookie-cutter soft-skills training here.

Based on input from our law firm clients
Every topic we address is based on requests from our client firms.

Brief, targeted, practical and actionable
Most are 15 minutes or less, with practical examples and scenarios.

Interactive
Embedded opportunities to practice and self-reflect.

Mix-and-match from 100+ topics (and growing)

Flexible Delivery Options

If you leverage our platform, we’ll provide a firm-branded, web-accessible 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.

User access is straightforward and intuitive. And automated reminders and reporting capabilities make administration a breeze.

And if you’ve got your own Learning Management System (LMS) that you’d prefer to host the courses on, we can accommodate that, too.

Creative ways to use Professional Essentials courses:

  • Self-study

    Assign modules to specific audiences for independent self-study or as part of a growth plan.

  • Foundational content

    Implement coursework as the foundation for facilitated group learning discussions.

  • Coaching supplement

    Supplement one-on-one coaching or use as a follow-up to performance improvement conversations.

  • Pre-work

    Use in advance of live training events to ensure learners have a baseline understanding on a topic.

More reasons to love Professional Essentials:

  • Topics requested by law firms

    We create courses based on input from our law firm clients and emerging trends in the legal community. New courses are added periodically.

  • Mix & match to fit your needs

    Choose the modules that best meet your needs. You can pick from our pre-defined categories and subscribe to all modules within that series, or choose modules à la carte from a wide array of categories.

  • Simple subscription pricing

    Simple and straightforward pricing, offered on an annual subscription basis.

  • Track and report

    SCORM-compliant training so that you can track and report on user completion data whether you host on your platform or ours.

  • Practical & actionable

    Learners can apply what they’ve learned with modules designed to be practical and actionable.

    Courses contain a strategic combination of elements to increase learner retention and application.

  • Convenience built in

    Learners can conveniently take the course on a desktop, laptop, and/or mobile device. They can also pause the course and pick up later where they left off, even on another device.

Client service is our specialty

Rest easy knowing you’ll have a partner for the duration and amazing customer service and support each step of the way.

"We’ve had really great support from SkillBurst Interactive."
~ Baker Hostetler

"The team has been amazing."
~ Kelley Drye

"I have had nothing but great support from [the team]. They always turn around any requests promptly and do so with such professionalism."
~ Hogan Lovells