EVENTS
RainDance 2010
LMA Annual Conference 2010
LSSO's Legal Lean Sigma™ Courses
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June 9 and 10, Chicago
SAVE THE DATES!
-Pre-conference workshop: Legal Lean Sigma Leadership Orientation: $295 (LSSO members $225)
-Day One: 1 - 5:30; RainDance Reception 5:30 to 7:00 pm
-Day Two: 8 to 9 Breakfast; Programming 9 - 5
Registration:
LSSO members: $825; $725 early registration; combined early registration and LSSO annual membership: $1120. All others: $995, early registration: $895.
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Legal Marketing Association Annual Conference
March 10 - 12, Denver, Colorado
This year LMA is delighted to announce a partnership with the Legal Sales & Services Organization to include a full track of business development-related programming in the 2010 conference agenda. To extend this partnership further, LMA invites all LSSO members to attend the 2010 LMA Annual Conference at the discounted LMA full-member rate.
The redesigned www.LMAConference.com web site provides group booking information, registration, updates and resources including access to conference social networking sites and the Conference Rationale Pack - a tool to help you build the business case for attending.
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LSSO'S LEGAL LEAN SIGMA™
PROCESS IMPROVEMENT COURSES
2010 Open Enrollment Yellow Belt Courses
April 12 & 13: Washington, DC
September 21 & 22: Boston
In this rigorous, two day Yellow Belt Certification course, you will learn Six Sigma, Lean and other process improvement methodologies that you can apply within your organization. Learning objectives for the yellow belt candidates are to:
- Understand the key concepts of processes and process measurement
- Be able to articulate the case for carrying out process improvement systematically within a law firm or legal department
- Be able to describe the most important process improvement toolkits (Lean, Six Sigma, and Theory of Constraints) and the main concepts behind each
- Become familiar with the 5 key phases (DMAIC) in executing a process improvement project
- Know the major steps and most common tools used in each phase of a process improvement project
- Be able to apply the concepts, steps, and tools to process improvement opportunities in law firms / legal departments
- Know what is required to move beyond carrying out process improvements opportunistically
Click here to download the brochure and registration form Click here for a complimentary presentation: Overview of LSSO's Legal Lean Sigma™
Please contact Catherine MacDonagh at cam@legalsales.org to schedule a course specifically designed and privately delivered for your law firm or legal department.
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White belt agendaSample:
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Process Improvement for Law Firms. MBD: Are You Operating at Optimum Efficiency?
LSSO offers the first and only process improvement programs for law firms and legal departments. Those interested in learning how to meet the increasing demands for efficiency and value driven by economic and other factors like the ACC Value Challenge now, read on:
LSSO developed the legal industry’s first process improvement certification programs designed to provide enhanced innovation, quality and efficiencies, and, in turn, increase profitiabilty and service excellence in law firms and legal departments.
Until now, law firms and legal departments have had to first learn about process improvement from programs designed for other industries, and then to figure out how to apply those concepts and tools in their own organizations. These programs change that, since they are designed specifically for the legal industry.
"Toward that end, LSSO is extraordinarily fortunate to work with Laura Colcord,” stated Catherine Alman MacDonagh, President and Co-Founder of LSSO. “She is an internationally-known Process Improvement expert who has pioneered the use of Lean and Six Sigma methodologies in a number of non-traditional applications.” Laura Colcord and Catherine MacDonagh, who is a certified Six Sigma green belt, former law firm executive and a former corporate counsel, are developing the programs and will serve as lead instructors.
LSSO’s programs include a leadership orientation and three different certifications: white, yellow and green belt. In addition to open enrollment programs, courses are delivered inhouse for law firm and legal department teams. Please contact Catherine MacDonagh for more information cam@legalsales.org.
Participants are introduced to the two most important process improvement toolkits, Lean and Six Sigma, and will learn how these methodologies are used to improve the way work is performed in the legal industry.
“Since LSSO’s inception, we have been focused on quality and process improvement in the legal space – from our Thomas H. Lee Award for Service Excellence in Law™ award judges and board of advisors, who are experts in this area, to our RainDance Conferences™ that feature programming on process improvement methodologies like Six Sigma and Lean,” said MacDonagh. “This series of certification programs allows law firms and legal departments to have relevant, immediately applicable tools and information.”
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RECOMMENDED BOOKS
The Law Firm Associate's Guide to Personal Marketing and Selling Skills
Order the ABA's best selling books by LSSO Co-Founders Beth Marie Cuzzone and Catherine Alman MacDonagh:
The Law Firm Associate's Guide to Personal Marketing and Selling Skills AND the companion Trainer's Manual.
Kick start YOUR associate sales training and ecucation with practical, turn key programs. They're also perfect for mentoring, recruiting and retention initiatives!
Click on the book to order.
Click here to read a book review which was published in the 1/1/08 issue of HEADNOTES, the newsletter of the Dallas Bar Association (see Page 12).
The Woman Lawyer's Rainmaking Game: How to Build a Successful Law Practice by Silvia L. Coulter, LSSO President and Co-Founder - a must read for all lawyers. Check it out at www.legalwks.com, the Press Center, item entitled "Beyond the Practice of Law: New Book Helps Female Lawyers Achieve Success"
LSSO MEMBERS: Read the chapter on Sales Confidence contributed by Harry Keshet, PhD. and Catherine Alman MacDonagh, Esq. in the LSSO Library, For Members Only. -------------------------------------------------
Business Relevance - Listen Up!The Key to Client Satisfaction and Account Growth: Click here to listen to Mike O’Horo (“The Coach”) and Darryl Cross explain how to guarantee your lawyers’ “business relevance,” and earn the preference of these valuable clients who insist that you be much more than a technically competent lawyer.
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