Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP 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 Los Angeles-based Manatt Phelps & Phillips, has purchased Traveling Coaches’ CLASS and CLASSe content for the Firm’s on-going technology training program.
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 five years ago, the wildly popular CLASS program has been implemented by over 170 law firms and corporate legal departments consisting of nearly 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.”
"CLASSe gave us hundreds of relevant modules, all featuring the ‘Now You Try It’ process we’d found to be so valuable," said John A.C. Kennedy, Application Training Manager for Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP. "The modules are clear and detailed, but also flexible enough to allow us to make minor, firm-specific modifications that bring them in-line with the Training Library we’ve already created. With CLASS and CLASSe, we now have in place all the training materials we anticipate needing for our upcoming conversion to Office 2007."
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, Manatt Phelps & Phillips will be able to provide end-users with a consistent training message through the instructor, reference materials and eLearning lessons.
“We offer firms great training materials written by legal technology experts who have a passion for developing the best of breed tools allowing trainers to maximize their educational programs,” added Charlene Traynor, Principal, Chief Learning Officer for Traveling Coaches. “CLASS modules provide a total solution for the classroom including training guides, hands-on exercises and quick reference cards while CLASSe briefs provide the interactivity and self-paced learning that attorneys and staff alike will use again and again.”
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 ROI of 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.
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, provides legal and consulting services to a global client base from offices in Los Angeles, Orange County, Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Sacramento, California; New York City and Albany, New York; and Washington, D.C. Manatt includes Manatt Health Solutions, a healthcare policy and strategic business advisory group, and ManattJones Global Strategies, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary that develops and implements strategies to expand client businesses and facilitate their effective competition in global markets.