Profisciencē Partners – Company Blog

May 18, 2009, New Orleans, LA — Traveling Coaches and Profisciencē Partners today introduced CLASSroom, an online technology training program designed for smaller law firms, delivered and powered by UniversitySite, Profisciencē Partners’ flagship learning management system favored by law firms throughout North America. The announcement came at the Association of Legal Administrators Annual Conference where Traveling Coaches and Profisciencē Partners jointly presented a timely session on ways that firms can increase productivity and proficiency while reducing overhead expense. CLASSroom is the distillation of Traveling Coaches’ years of experience providing technology training to the legal industry. The virtual CLASSroom is perfect for smaller law firms that need advanced technology training based on legal-industry best practices, but need to carefully watch costs associated with external training resources and customized content.

“Our goal in developing CLASSroom is to provide smaller firms with expert training that until now, only large firms could afford,” said Gina Buser, Chief Executive Officer of Traveling Coaches. “CLASSroom will increase a firm’s competitive advantage during these tough economic times without adding the overhead cost of trainers, training rooms and curriculum development.”

CLASSroom includes the same CLASSe (Continued Learning and Software Skills for eLearning) curriculum used by hundreds of larger law firms and over 80,000 users. The program features self-paced and instructor led training as well as reference materials, assessments and hands-on exercises using legal documents. The content delivery, scheduling and progress reporting are powered by Profisciencē Partners’ UniversitySite, enabling employees to quickly locate answers to “how to” questions and request future training using a wish list.

“The generic training options available to smaller firms are of little value because they don’t address the unique way law firms use technology,” said Charlene LeMaire, Chief Learning Officer of Traveling Coaches. “The virtual CLASSroom allows us to share our legal-specific curricula with thousands of small firms whenever and wherever they need training.”

“Leading law firms in the U.S. have implemented UniversitySite as part of a strategic initiative to develop learning strategies to improve employee skills and expertise, so we are very pleased to provide our LMS as a platform to support CLASSroom as an affordable solution for small law firms to drive their training initiatives,” said Michael Barshinger, President and CEO of Profisciencē Partners.

About Traveling Coaches
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 650 law firms and corporate legal departments, including the majority of the AmLaw 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.

About Profisciencē Partners
Profisciencē Partners (www.profiscience.com) is a leading provider of software solutions for learning and performance management for the legal industry, which includes UniversitySite (LMS), SkillSite (Assessment Management System) and SupportSite (Help Desk) as a suite of product offerings. As experts in strategic education and performance consulting, Profisciencē Partners delivers products and services to law firms in the United States and abroad.

FEBRUARY 1, 2009, DALLAS, TEXAS – Traveling Coaches announced the company’s plan to bundle its CLASS training program with SkillSite, Profisciencē Partners’ newest assessment tool.  CLASS (Continued Learning and Software Skills) is a collection of modular, legal specific and customizable technology training materials. SkillSite is a ground breaking Assessment Management System that delivers a framework for measuring technical skills.

SkillSite enables a law firm to identify specific skill gaps and significantly improve performance through the delivery of prescriptive training. Following assessment, SkillSite creates personalized learning plans for each employee that are automatically imported into UniversitySite and leverage the content from the CLASS (instructor-led) and CLASSe (eLearning) programs.

 “SkillSite is an amazing tool for identifying legal users’ knowledge gaps” said Gina Buser, co-founder and CEO of Traveling Coaches. “The modular, legal-specific CLASS content is the perfect complement to the learning plans generated by SkillSite.”

Since 2003, Traveling Coaches has bundled CLASS with Profisciencē Partners’ UniversitySite learning management system. Developed as the perfect complement to UniversitySite and now SkillSite, the wildly popular CLASS program has been implemented by over 170 law firms and corporate legal departments with nearly 80,000 users.

“We have been aggressively expanding our software portfolio in the last year to broaden our capabilities to help clients implement learning strategies that can improve employee skills and expertise,” added Theresa Lundquist, Chief Learning Strategist for Profisciencē Partners. “This persistent focus has been our driving force as we strive to help law firms achieve their business goals, and we are pleased to have CLASS and CLASSe as an outstanding delivery system to deliver targeted learning plans following assessment.”

About Traveling Coaches
Traveling Coaches is an 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, skill assessment to learning management, Traveling Coaches is the common denominator of successful technology initiatives.

About Profisciencē Partners
Profisciencē Partners (www.profiscience.com) is a leading provider of software solutions for learning and performance management for the legal industry, which includes UniversitySite (LMS), SkillSite (Assessment) and SupportSite (Help Desk) as a suite of product offerings. As experts in strategic education and performance consulting, Profisciencē Partners delivers products and services to law firms in the United States and abroad.

Leading Training and Learning Management Organizations Combine Resources to Provide Skill Assessment Solution for Law Firms

New York, NY — January 9, 2009 — EncoreTech, Inc. (www.encoretech.com), a leading provider of training and support for legal applications, today announced its partnership with Profisciencē Partners as a SkillSite and UniversitySite Reseller. EncoreTech, as a SkillSite Solution Provider, has developed the Encore Learning System (ELS)–SkillSite Edition to compliment SkillSite, a ground breaking assessment tool that scores, tracks and manages legal document proficiency assessments for employees and new hires. 

ELS–SkillSite Edition is a suite of instructor outlines, class exercises and end user quick reference cards aligned specifically with the learning objectives outlined by SkillSite for measuring Microsoft Word skills for legal document professionals. ELS–SkillSite Edition is a cost effective, turnkey solution developed by EncoreTech to give in-house training departments the tools to deliver the learning plans generated by SkillSite.

“The very best way to prepare for Office 2007 is to ensure employees are competent and highly skilled in using Microsoft Word,” states Stacy Gittleman, EncoreTech’s founder and CEO. “SkillSite has the capability to measure these skills and create individualized learning plan objectives for employees, and measuring these skills before rolling out Office 2007 is mission critical for law firms.”

Under the leadership of Theresa Lundquist, Chief Learning Strategist for Profisciencē Partners , SkillSite has been developed as an Assessment Management System, a web-based platform that delivers a framework for measuring technical skills and improving performance by providing the tools needed to implement assessment and track results. Explains Lundquist: “We have designed legal document proficiency assessments that measure core competencies for Word 2003 and Word 2007, including MacPac, iCreate, and Innova skills, and soon to come are Excel and PowerPoint assessments. Our training partners, experts in the delivery of both instructor led training and eLearning, have created content to support the learning plans that ensure legal document specialists master these core competencies. We are pleased to have EncoreTech’s support in meeting these objectives, thus contributing to improved productivity and the proficiency of document production in law firms.”

For more information, contact:
Stacy Gittleman, Encore Tech, Inc.
SGittleman@EncoreTech.com
212-835-9450  

Theresa Lundquist, Profisciencē Partners
Theresa.Lundquist@Profiscience.com
952-905-8158

About EncoreTech, Inc. 
 EncoreTech is a premier provider of legal technology training, floor support, documentation, train-the-trainer, and consulting for leading law firms. The company is internationally recognized for providing law firms and corporate legal departments with expert advice and training that leads to successful technology rollouts. For more than 20 years, the EncoreTech team of highly experienced trainers has established an exceptional reputation, consistently delivering beyond expectations.

About Profiscience Partners
Profisciencē Partners is a leading provider of software solutions for learning and performance management for the legal industry, which includes UniversitySite (LMS), SkillSite (Assessment), and SupportSite (Help Desk) as a suite of product offerings. As experts in strategic education and performance consulting, Profisciencē Partners delivers products and services to law firms in the United States and abroad.