McGlinchey Stafford Purchases Traveling Coaches' CLASSe
JANUARY 15, 2009, DALLAS, TEXAS - Traveling Coaches, the nationally recognized training, application integration and consulting partner to law firms and corporate legal departments, today announced that New Orleans-based McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC has purchased Traveling Coaches’ 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.”
“Since launching our LMS, the McGlinchey Learning Center, in 2007, we’ve been searching for eLearning content to complement the briefs we created ourselves. After researching a number of vendors, we chose CLASSe from Traveling Coaches. We were impressed with the broad array of topics and the quality of the modules. We look forward to deploying CLASSe in the near future and we’re sure our users will be eager to take advantage of its offerings” stated Joseph Moore, Applications Manager at McGlinchey.
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 CLASSe McGlinchey Stafford will be able to provide end-users with consistent 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 McGlinchey Stafford 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 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.
Founded on an entrepreneurial spirit in 1974, the partners of McGlinchey Stafford set out to establish a different type of law firm. A firm focused on smart business solutions, new traditions of client service and innovative legal approaches.
Beginning as a small group in a single downtown New Orleans office, McGlinchey Stafford is now home to more than 190 attorneys, 400 employees and eight nationwide offices.