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January 14, 2008 by Daniel Siegel.
Responding to the needs of our registrants, the Managing Partner Development Institute has changed the date for “What You Didn’t Learn in Law School,” the second Managing Partner Development Institute, LLC conference. The conference will now ben held on April 11 and 12, 2008, at the Pittsburgh Marriott. MPDI made the change in response to requests from attendees who were concerned about the weather (and football) in Pittsburgh in January. This conference, with a host of guest speakers, (including Robert W. Denney, president of Robert Denney Associates, one of the first law firm management consulting firms in the United States; Martha Hess, business development manager, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, PC, and Corinne Cook, market research manager at PNC), promises to be terrific follow-up to our inaugural conference. Mark the date.We’ve also extended the early bird registration deadline. Space is limited. I hope you can attend. For more information, go to www.managingpartnerinstitute.org.
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January 14, 2008 by Daniel Siegel.
The more law firms I work with, the more I discover how deficient so many are with their training. While many firms will train on key applications, such as case/practice management software, few ever train on the basic programs, such as Word, Outlook and even Windows itself. Why? They assume that their staff knows how to use the programs when, in reality, most computer users have never been trained on these essentials. If they have been trained, it was probably years ago for an hour.
The Managing Partner has many responsibilities, and one is to assure that every member of the firm — from partners to clerical staff — are fully versed in the firm’s software, whether it is Outlook or TimeMatters. A little training, especially in the basics, will go a long way toward improving firmwide productivity. Training doesn’t have to be onerous, but it must be consistently done, and attendance must be mandatory.
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August 26, 2007 by Daniel Siegel.
Coming soon … the MPDI blog. Please visit us at www.managingpartnerinstitute.org.
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