With the economy taking its toll on both budgets and employee resources, Profisciencē Partners is actively doing its part to lower costs and help firms improve performance and efficiency through strategic learning and skill development.

The economic downturn has had an unprecedented impact on U.S. law firms and firm management is being challenged to make difficult decisions to improve efficiency.  We understand this calls for an unprecedented response from solution providers.  As experts in learning and performance management Profisciencē Partners delivers products that improve proficiency, leading to sustainable outcomes, and improved organizational performance and efficiency.

For the month of June, Profisciencē Partners is offering savings opportunities on our learning and performance management software solutions: UniversitySite, SkillSite, and SupportSite.  To take advantage of this offer, contact sales@profiscience.com.

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.

Download the new FAQ for UniversitySite written for both existing and prospective customers interested in UniversitySite as a learning management tool for implementing and managing the training function within their organizations.

Download white paper “Planning Your Office 2007 Rollout Strategy – Think Again” 

An Office 2007 rollout provides the perfect storm for exposing the widespread skill crisis that looms within law firms, both large and small. To help law firms stay competitive in the next decade, IT training leaders need to address the growing technical skill gap for legal secretaries and engineer an Office 2007 training solution that will impact the firm’s ability to be productive, stay competitive, and support improved levels of client service.

To learn more about this important topic, this white paper challenges law firms to align their Office 2007 rollouts with a strategic learning initiative that will mitigate the risks associated with the growing technical skills gap for legal secretaries. The paper also focuses on minimizing the disruption of the upgrade, using prescriptive learning plans to guide the training, and following the upgrade, delivering compelling data to management that has real business impact.

Planning Your Office 2007 Rollout Strategy – Think Again.pdf

Session:
Planning Your Office 2007 Rollout Strategy?  Think Again.

Date:
Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Time:
11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Location:
The City Club, 69th Floor
Bank of America Plaza
901 Main Street
Dallas, Texas

To Register:
http://www.ltaonline.org/rsvp.php?event=112  

Session Description:
An Office 2007 rollout provides the perfect storm for exposing the widespread skill crisis that looms within law firms, both large and small. To help law firms stay competitive in the next decade, IT training leaders need to address the growing technical skill gap for legal secretaries and engineer an Office 2007 training solution that will impact the firm’s ability to be productive, stay competitive, and support improved levels of client service.

This session will challenge law firms to align their Office 2007 rollouts with a strategic learning initiative that will mitigate the risks associated with the growing technical skills gap for legal secretaries. It will also focus on minimizing the disruption of the upgrade, using prescriptive learning plans to guide the training, and following the upgrade—delivering compelling data to management that has real business impact.

For more information, contact Theresa Lundquist at Theresa.Lundquist@Profiscience.com.

Product Briefing:
Improve Performance and Productivity with SkillSite: More Learning | Less Training

Date:
03/09/2009

Time:
12:00 pm Eastern, 11:00 am Central, 10:00 am Mountain, 9:00 am Pacific

Location:
Your office

To Register:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/901871761

For additional information, go to ILTA’s web site using this link: http://www.iltanet.org/MainMenuCategory/Meetings/ProductBriefings/Improve-Performance-and-Productivity-with-SkillSite.aspx

Session Description:  Profisciencē Partners is pleased to announce its newest product, SkillSite, an Assessment Management System that provides a complete set of tools for law firms to successfully implement, score, and manage competency-based assessments for employees and new hires.

Designed exclusively for law firms, SkillSite creates personalized learning plans following assessment that are imported into your LMS, enabling employees to quickly access their assessment results and complete prescribed training, allowing them to focus immediately on learning and acquiring new skills. This unique capability enables firms to take an important step after assessment, which is to provide the right training to close identified skill gaps and facilitate more learning with less training.

Theresa Lundquist will showcase SkillSite, a comprehensive solution that provides end-to-end implementation and management for assessment, helping law firms to successfully drive performance improvement. This session will include a preview of a Microsoft Word assessment, demonstrate how SkillSite automatically scores assessments and generates customized learning plans. You’ll also see individually scored results following an assessment.

For more information, contact Theresa Lundquist at Theresa.Lundquist@Profiscience.com.

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.

LegalTech is the largest legal technology event of the year and the best resource for law firms to gain important information for improving their technology needs and law practice management.  Profisciencē Partners will be attending this outstanding legal event, presenting two engaging sessions to the New York legal community.

Tuesday February 3, 9:30 am
Session: Improve Performance and Productivity: More Learning | Less Training
Theresa Lundquist will co-present with EncoreTech (www.EncoreTech.com) to showcase SkillSite, a ground breaking web based platform that provides a complete set of tools for law firms to successfully implement, score, and manage competency-based assessments for employees and new hires. Stacy Gittleman, CEO of EncoreTech, will also announce Encore Learning System—SkillSite Edition, a turnkey solution that provides training departments the tools to deliver prescriptive training that will target skill gaps following assessment. This presentation is Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 9:30-11:30 am. Location is the Warwick Hotel (Davies Room), directly across from The Hilton New York, site of LegalTech New York. To reserve your attendance, RSVP Jennifer Cadieux at JCadieux@EncoreTech.com.

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.