Alston and Bird Partners with Traveling Coaches for Office 2010 Rollout
April 4, 2011, DALLAS, TX - Traveling Coaches, the nationally recognized training, application integration and user adoption consulting partner to law firms, announced today that Atlanta-based Alston & Bird, LLP has selected the company as its training and support partner for the law firm’s rollout of Office 2010.
Alston & Bird, is committed to providing the Firm’s user community with best in class education and support before, during and after the deployment of Office 2010. This partnership with Traveling Coaches equips the law firm with outside expertise in educating and preparing IT support staff team members, training and supporting users, and building and executing an overall communication and user adoption plan for a successful Office 2010 rollout.
“There are some terrific education resources available and we had a difficult decision to make, but we felt that the training curriculum/rollout kit materials and the skills of the Traveling Coaches’ resources in both training and floor support was the right “fit” for our project,” said Nola Vanhoy, Director of Practice Innovation at Alston & Bird.
“We were impressed with Traveling Coaches’ methodology and attention to detail in their products. We are excited about working with their team and having a successful rollout,” said Robert Marburger, CIO at Alston & Bird.
The project team, comprised of members from Traveling Coaches and Alston & Bird, will leverage materials and best practices from the Traveling Coaches’ renowned Office 2010 Rollout Kit, a collection of communications, project marketing, E-learning, classroom and floor support tools which are legal-specific and delivered in soft copy for easy customization by law firms. The project team will customize the materials and communication pieces to fit the specifics of Alston & Bird’s project, saving the law firm the cost and time associated with developing these tools from scratch.
“Our experience with hundreds of firms is that complete adoption of Microsoft Office 2010 requires a comprehensive communication and education strategy including myriad ‘learning moments’ to accommodate the various roles and learning styles in a law firm,” said Charlene LeMaire, co-founder and Chief Learning Officer for Traveling Coaches. “Our Office Rollout Kits are the distillation of our proven best practices delivered in a format law firms can immediately implement to ensure success.”
About Traveling Coaches
Traveling Coaches (www.travelingcoaches.com) is the established 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 900 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 Alston & Bird LLP
Alston & Bird (www.alston.com) is the dynamic, prominent firm it is today as the result of the leadership of individual, outstanding attorneys and thoughtful mergers that strengthened our practice areas, culture and philosophies.
Today, the firm has more than 800 attorneys providing a full range of services to domestic and international clients who conduct business all over the world. Counseling clients from what was initially a local context to regional, then national, and now a global economic environment, Alston & Bird has overlaid its broad range of legal skills and business knowledge with a commitment to innovation and technology.