Traveling Coaches Bundles CLASS with SkillSite
Duane Morris Purchases Traveling Coaches' CLASS and CLASSe
March 12, 2009, DALLAS, TEXAS - Traveling
Coaches, the nationally recognized training,
application integration and consulting partner to law firms and corporate
legal
departments, today announced that the International Law Firm Duane Morris,
LLP has
purchased Traveling Coaches’ CLASS and CLASSe content for the Firm’s
on-going
training program.
Traveling Coaches’ industry-leading CLASS (Continued
Learning and Software Skills)
program is a collection of high quality, modular, and legal specific
technology training
materials. Since its introduction three years ago, the wildly popular CLASS
program
has been implemented by over 170 law firms and corporate legal departments
consisting of more than 80,000 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.”
“Traveling Coaches’ extensive eLearning modules
provide our attorneys and staff with
quick and easy access to learning modules that nicely supplement our
existing
traditional classroom training program” said Michael Rivera, Training
Manager,
Information Services for Duane Morris.
CLASS currently consists of 213 classroom modules and
CLASSe includes over 720
eLearning lessons, both products covering topics from Microsoft Office
applications to
document management systems and Word productivity tools. The materials are
customizable and designed to be used for university-style training programs.
CLASSe
Briefs are drawn from CLASS curriculum and offer the same high level of
quality and
consistency. By purchasing both products, Duane Morris will be able to
provide endusers
with a consistent training message through the instructor, reference
materials and
eLearning lessons.
“We believe in offering end-users a blended learning
solution with a selection of places
to find the answers they need in a hurry,” added Gina Buser, president and
co-founder
of Traveling Coaches. “We are thrilled to include Duane Morris among the
firms that
use our materials as the foundation for their continuing education
programs.”
Traveling Coaches 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 600 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.
Evolving from a partnership of prominent lawyers in
Philadelphia a century ago, Duane Morris
now has offices in many major
markets and continues to expand across the country and
overseas through
non-merger growth. Throughout this expansion, Duane Morris remains
committed
to preserving the collegial culture that has attracted so many talented
attorneys. The
firm's leadership believes this culture is truly unique among
large law firms, and that outstanding
legal work is best accomplished by
skilled professionals who respect each other and work well
together.
Trade publications have placed Duane Morris in the
upper echelon of law firms in terms of
utilizing technology. Hundreds of
lawyers working around the globe quickly communicate and
collaborate using
the firm's integrated computer network, accessing sophisticated research
software, information-rich databases, and other knowledge-sharing tools.
Duane Morris' clients
also benefit from the contributions of
professional-level support staff who maintain the firm's
technological and
administrative infrastructure and enable lawyers to focus on providing
valuable
counsel and service to their clients.