Akin Gump Purchases Prescriptive Training Solution from Traveling Coaches and Profisciencē Partners
December 23, 2009 DALLAS, TX - Traveling Coaches, the nationally recognized training, application integration and consulting partner to law firms and corporate legal departments, today announced that Washington DC-based Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld, LLP, has purchased its CLASS and CLASSe content in conjunction with the Firm’s purchase of UniversitySite and SkillSite from Profisciencē Partners, a recognized leader in learning management and performance improvement. These tools will be strategically utilized as part of the Firm’s ongoing technology training program.
SkillSite, the legal industry’s first assessment management system, measures and tracks technical skills for legal document production, reporting critical skill gaps from a measurable list of core competencies through assessment. From this data SkillSite creates personalized learning plans, which are exported to UniversitySite where employees can select from instructor-led training based on CLASS instructor-led content or CLASSe eLearning briefs to improve the specific skills necessary to maximize their performance.
“These educational tools allow us to rapidly deliver on enhancements to staff productivity, as well as and service and support improvements to our fee earners” said Lorey Arthur Hoffman, Akin Gump CIO. “We believe our investment will be quickly returned in productivity gain.”
Traveling Coaches’ industry-leading CLASS (Continued Learning and Software Skills) program is a collection of modular, legal specific and customizable technology training materials. Since its introduction six years ago, the wildly popular CLASS program has been implemented by over 185 law firms and corporate legal departments consisting of more than 85,000 users. As CLASS provides the materials for traditional classroom instruction, CLASSe facilitates a different style of training: just-in-time eLearning. A collection of short, interactive, online lessons called CLASSe Briefs, this program is ideal for busy attorneys and staff who need to learn how to accomplish specific tasks “on the fly.”
“We are thrilled to work with Akin Gump and help realize their vision for increased productivity” said Gina Buser, Traveling Coaches CEO and co-founder. “Our CLASS and CLASSe content are the perfect complements for SkillSite and UniversitySite, and when all four are combined, they form the only legal-specific, competency-based IT training solution.”
Profisciencē Partners’ SkillSite is a ground breaking, web-based platform designed to score, track, and manage legal-specific competency-based assessments for employees and new hires. UniversitySite is the first centralized online learning center designed specifically for law firms to organize and facilitate learning management and continuing education programs. Ideal for CLASS and CLASSe content, UniversitySite manages the course catalog, training schedules, registration, standby lists, training goals, learning plans, resource allocation and reporting.
“Leading law firms in the U.S. have implemented UniversitySite and SkillSite as part of a strategic initiative to develop learning strategies to improve employee skills and expertise, so we are very pleased to provide our products to support CLASS and CLASSe as solution for Akin Gump to drive their training platform,” said Michael Barshinger, President and CEO of Profisciencē Partners.
About Traveling Coaches
Traveling Coaches (www.travelingcoaches.com) is the unrivaled authority on user adoption of technology. More than a training company, Traveling Coaches’ comprehensive solutions ensure increased productivity and reduced support cost for the legal industry’s mission critical processes: document production and management. Since 1995, over 650 law firms and corporate legal departments, including the majority of the Am Law 100, have partnered with Traveling Coaches to increase the return on their technology investments. From consulting to application integration, coaching to curriculum, skills assessment to learning management, Traveling Coaches is the common denominator of successful technology initiatives.
About Akin Gump
With more than 800 lawyers in 13 offices, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is one of the world’s largest law firms. A frequent recipient of industry recognition for its strength in litigation and high-stakes appellate work, its leadership in groundbreaking transactions and its depth in public policy, Akin Gump provides a comprehensive suite of services for global companies and local individuals. Its team of litigators, dealmakers, and policy lawyers and advisors collaborate with a single goal: the success of their clients.