They’re not soft skills.
They’re essential skills.
Elevate essential skills in your lawyers and staff via Professional Essentials.
Whether you want to equip new, junior associates with the “power skills” they didn’t learn in law school, or you need to train managers on effective leadership techniques, there’s a SkillBurst series for that.
Build your online, on-demand training library with engaging, bite-size, 15-minutes-or-less courses made JUST for lawyers and staff.
Select the series that meet your specific training objectives.
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Foundational Skills for New Associates
This series is designed to quickly elevate the skills of your newest associates, providing them with the foundational knowledge needed to acclimate to law firm life and get off to a strong start at the firm.
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Emerging Leader Series
This series challenges the notion that leadership requires a specific personality or seniority, showing that true leadership is about gaining skills to lead effectively at any level, and helps everyone in the firm develop their leadership skills.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Series
This series helps everyone in the firm understand key topics crucial for fostering a safe, equitable, and inclusive work environment, emphasizing that promoting inclusivity is critical to achieving success in the world today.
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Client Service Series
This series helps everyone - lawyers and staff - at all levels across the firm adopt a client-service mindset, emphasizing that in today's legal market, delivering exceptional client service requires more than intent; it begins with a dedicated approach.
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Productivity & Performance Series
This series is designed to greatly accelerate the productivity and performance of your lawyers and staff by giving them new ways to approach their mindsets, systems, habits, and work.
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The Business of Law Series
This series educates your lawyers at all levels on the business of law, emphasizing the importance of understanding the firm as a business entity, recognizing financial success factors, and knowing how to contribute.
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Business Development Series
This series helps both lawyers and staff enhance networking skills, emphasizing that exceptional lawyering skills don't always translate to business development success, and helps lawyers master networking, cross-selling, and becoming rainmakers.
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Management & Leadership Series
This series helps mid- and senior-level lawyers and staff develop management and leadership skills, emphasizing the crucial role of managers and team leads in aligning teams, setting expectations, supporting firm culture, and inspiring others to perform at their best.
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Communication Skills Series
This series is designed to help everyone in the firm with communication, emphasizing that effective communication is essential for success and involves listening, speaking, writing, and selecting the appropriate mode of communication.
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Performance Evaluations Series
This series, created for both lawyers and staff, helps everyone make the most of the performance evaluation process, emphasizing the opportunity to showcase growth, exchange meaningful feedback, and motivate future performance.
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Mentoring Series
This series is designed to help mentees optimize their mentoring relationships by providing them with practical strategies and insights, and also assists mentors in setting appropriate expectations and fostering effective and supportive mentorship within the firm.
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Well-Being Series
This series is designed to help everyone in the firm cultivate and encourage well-being by offering practical tools and techniques that can be readily applied to foster their own sense of well-being, as well as to support and encourage well-being in those around them.
Have each module customized as much or as little as you’d like
Use right out-of-the-box or have us customize to make each Professional Essentials module feel like it was built just for you.
Reflect your firm’s brand, include your content and vocabulary, and align seamlessly with your other training materials.
Any course can be customized with:
Your logo, colors, and images
Links to your policies and resources
Firm-specific content and terminology
Your preferred messaging
We even customize to present the modules in different languages.
Whether using our courses ready-made or tailored to fit, you’ll deliver an engaging experience that will impress both learners and leadership.
(above) Out-of-the-box course design example.
The same course, customized to reflect a client’s brand.
Professional Essentials: Embraced by law firms across the globe
"Professional Essentials and your customer service are terrific. The eLearning modules are an integral part of our career advising program. The short, effective guidance is coupled with engaging visuals and interactive exercises. They definitely enhance the professional development of our lawyers and we recommend their use to others."
Traci Mundy Jenkins, Director of Career Development
Venable LLP
"Professional Essentials gives us readily available, interactive training specifically tailored to our law firm learning needs. It’s a fantastic resource, as is the SkillBurst team. They make it extremely easy for us to deliver critical skill training effectively and efficiently to all our learners on-demand."
Tammie Garner, Chief Legal Performance Officer
Jackson Lewis P.C.
Branded to the firm
Have us add your logo or create a full-color rebrand.
Highly customizable
We can tailor the content to make it uniquely yours.
Designed for both self-study and blended learning
Leverage step-by-step facilitator guides for select modules.
One-size-fits all? Not at all
Choose the specific topics that align with your firm’s needs.
Developed specifically for law firms
No generic cookie-cutter soft-skills training here.
Based on input from our law firm clients
Every topic we address is based on requests from our client firms.
Brief, targeted, practical and actionable
Most are 15 minutes or less, with practical examples and scenarios.
Interactive
Embedded opportunities to practice and self-reflect.
Mix-and-match from 100+ topics (and growing)
Flexible Delivery Options
If you leverage our platform, we’ll provide a firm-branded, web-accessible site featuring all of the modules you’ve licensed. You’ll also have access to an easy-to-use Administrative Control Panel, through which you can easily add new users, organize them into groups, send email announcements and assignments, and run reports on usage.
User access is straightforward and intuitive. And automated reminders and reporting capabilities make administration a breeze.
And if you’ve got your own Learning Management System (LMS) that you’d prefer to host the courses on, we can accommodate that, too.
Creative ways to use Professional Essentials courses:
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Self-study
Assign modules to specific audiences for independent self-study or as part of a growth plan.
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Foundational content
Implement coursework as the foundation for facilitated group learning discussions.
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Coaching supplement
Supplement one-on-one coaching or use as a follow-up to performance improvement conversations.
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Pre-work
Use in advance of live training events to ensure learners have a baseline understanding on a topic.
More reasons to love Professional Essentials:
Client service is our specialty
“I have had nothing but great support from [the team]. They always turn around any requests promptly and do so with such professionalism.”
“We’ve had really great support from SkillBurst.”
“The team has been amazing.”