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Time was, lawyers boasted about their lack of technical skills. Bob Boomer, Esq. was proud he couldn’t type. The better he got at closing deals, the more he left the heavy lifting to others. Secretaries did his word processing. Document Production staff input his motions and briefs overnight. First year attorneys fed him case law.

Today, secretaries draft pro-forma bills and handle calendars. Document Production departments are obsolete. And First Years? They know nothing about Microsoft Word when they come out of law school.

Bob Boomer, Esq. is on his own. And the ABA has warned him that the “duty of competence” he owes his clients includes being tech-savvy.[1]

Today it’s crucial that attorneys master basic technical skills. The Legal Technology Core Competency Certification Coalition (LTC4) has identified baseline competencies.

Are your firm’s first and second year Associates up to speed on the following skills?

• Document review – sort and filter in Excel to report on extant clauses in reams of agreements
• Document revision – compare language directly in the body of two emails
• Signing and closing a deal – replace multiple blank signature pages with executed copies in a few clicks.

If not, I can help.

I have developed a curriculum to qualify First and Second Years for LTC4 Certification in the three core competencies cited above.

I would love to leverage my certification curriculum and knowledge of the LTC4 certification process (former LTC4 Board member since 2014) to achieve your training goals.

A graduate of Yale University, and the Stern School of Business at NYU, I come from academia. I possess skills to teach smart people how to learn.

If you follow the link above, you’ll understand why I think that learning must, first and foremost, address the barriers to learning. Teaching lawyers how to learn is especially critical when you TEaCH technology, because adoption rates are notoriously low.

Please contact me for LTC4 Certification curriculum and scoring rubrics. Start certifying Associates next week.

I look forward to hearing from you!

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[1] ABA’s Model Rule 1.1, Comment 8, states in part, “A lawyer should keep abreast of changes in the law and its practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology…”

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