Media & Entertainment Law

New Site Bridges Law School, Law Practice

By Robert Ambrogi

A legal education site being launched today, Beyond The Bar, aims to provide a bridge between law school and law practice, providing training to new associates in business skills, legal skills and client relations. The site is sponsored by Thomson Reuters and the West LegalEdcenter.

“The goal of Beyond the Bar,” the site says, “is to provide an opportunity for new lawyers to gain a deeper understanding of skills through interactive workshops, going beyond traditional bridge-the-gap or transitional education programs.”

The site offers training courses in topics such as contract drafting, business counseling, effective communication, pretrial advocacy, client service and interpersonal communications. It appears that the courses are all live — there are no webcasts or other online courses offered through the site right now. From what I can tell, it appears that the site will add online courses as it is further developed.

The courses are taught by a faculty of well-known legal professionals, such as Ken Adams of Adams Drafting, Ross Fishman of Fishman Marketing, George Washington University legal research and writing professor Christy Hallam DeSanctis, and Charles H. Rose III, director of the Center for Excellence in Advocacy at Stetson Law School.

I’m not sure if this is true for all the programs offered through the site, but of the live programs I looked at, the cost was $695.

Full post as published by Media Law on September 28, 2010 (boomark / email).