Law Office Manager webinars are designed to provide you with educational instruction to help you be a better administrator and run an efficient and profitable firm. They also fulfill some of the educational requirements you need to obtain your Certified Legal Manager (CLM) credential offered by the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA).
If you attended any of our webinars this past year, here’s how you can apply them towards your CLM certification or recertification.
Coursework in the Management Skills Category
According to the ALA’s guidelines, “all applicants must attend, within 24 months preceding the date of application, at least two hours of coursework in each of Five (5) Management Categories.” Our webinar in this category is:
Management Skills Category: Information Technology
Course title:A Basic Guide to Microsoft Excel for Law Office Managers
Date of course: March 11, 2015
Instructor/Provider: Michelle Spencer/Law Office Manager
Start/Stop time: 12:00 to 1:30 pm ET
Minutes credited: 90 minutes
Webinar description: Presenter Michelle Spencer offers practical, “how-to” tips, tricks and techniques to use Excel more efficiently and productively, including a ready-to-use timesheet for payroll that is designed exclusively for law office managers.
Coursework for Functional Specialists
In addition to the 10 hours of educational requirements that all CLM applicants must complete, the ALA requires Functional Specialists to complete an additional 15 hours of coursework in areas other than the field in which the person is employed. Here’s where our webinars fit in:
Subject Area: Legal Industry/Business Management (LI)
Course title: A Basic Guide to Succession Planning for Law Firms
Date of course: May 7, 2015
Instructor/Provider: Ron Seigneur
Start/Stop time: 12:00 to 1:30 pm ET
Minutes credited: 90 minutes
Webinar description: This webinar explains how to smoothly transition leadership, while avoiding costly interruptions to client service and protecting firm revenue and profitability. Topics covered include:
- Demographic trends that are driving change in firm leadership
- How a well-designed plan can help to resolve fundamental leadership, strategic, and financial challenges that can derail a firm that is unprepared for leadership change
- An easy-to-understand overview of succession planning goals and process, including what your plan should achieve, how it should be structured, and how to determine the unique needs of your firm
- The critical elements of an effective succession plan, including understanding the key value drivers for your law practice
- Protecting revenue, profitability, and quality of client service
- How to avoid costly succession plan mistakes
Subject Area: Human Resources Management (HR)
Course title: How to Build a Law Office Staff that Cares
Date of course: February 5, 2015
Instructor/Provider: Dr. Steve M. Cohen President/Partner of Labor Management Advisory Group, Inc. and HR Solutions: On-Call /Law Office Manager
Start/Stop time: 12:00 to 1:00 pm ET
Minutes credited: 60 minutes
Webinar description: Disengaged employees can destroy the performance and morale of your entire staff, make your job far more stressful and difficult, and even expose your practice to costly employment law problems. The techniques taught in this webinar can help you to build an engaged staff that is more productive, more cooperative, more enthusiastic and more motivated.
Subject Area: Operations Management (OM)
Course title: How to Protect Your Law Practice against Costly & Destructive Cyber Attack
Date of course: December 10, 2014
Instructor/Provider: Sharon D. Nelson, Esq. and John W. Simek of Sensei Enterprises, Inc./Law Office Manager
Start/Stop time: 1:00 to 2:30 pm ET
Minutes credited: 90 minutes
Webinar description: Presenters Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., President, Sensei Enterprises, Inc. and John W. Simek, Vice President, Sensei Enterprises, Inc. discuss the rise in cyber crime, what it is, and how it is affecting your law firm. Some topics covered in the presentation include:
- What is cyber crime
- Why cyber criminals are increasingly targeting law firms for attack
- How to evaluate the present state of your cyber security
- How to start improving security at your law firm right away
- How to get buy-in from upper management
- What policies you must have in place now
- How to identify a breach
- How hackers penetrate the security of smart phones
Subject Area: Legal Industry/Business Management (LI)
Course title: Lessons from the “New Model” Law Firm: Proven ways to cut costs, increase revenue and improve profits in today’s highly competitive legal marketplace
Date of course: November 6, 2014
Instructor/Provider: Ron Friedmann, JD, Senior Consultant, Fireman & Company/Law Office Manager
Start/Stop time: 1:00 to 2:30 pm ET
Minutes credited: 90 minutes
Webinar description: This webinar covers ways to cut costs, increase revenue & increase profit in today’s highly competitive legal marketplace, including:
- The trend of clients moving towards In-House Counsel and why they are making this change
- How to increase your market share by increasing the value that you provide to your clients
- What “New Model” Law Firms are doing to lower costs and how you can adopt those changes at your Law Firm
Recertification
The CLM certification is valid for three years. During those three years, you must receive 36 hours of education and apply for recertification before your designated anniversary date of either June 30 or November 30, depending on whether you took the Spring or Fall exam. The above webinars meet the recertification educational requirements.
Present a Webinar for Law Office Manager and Earn Credits
Remember that of your required 36 hours, four can be earned by teaching a course. Law Office Manager webinars are a great opportunity for you to earn those credits, share your knowledge with your colleagues, and position yourself as a subject matter expert. If you want to present a webinar, we want to hear from you. Send your proposal to catherine@plainlanguagemedia.com.
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