Conferences

What Should CLE Organizations Know About Educating Lawyers?

March 23, 2011

I’m on the planning committee for ACLEA’s 48th Mid-Year Meeting, which will be in New Orleans, January 28-31, 2012. While it still seems so very far away, planning begins now. Our committee is meeting April 1-2 to work on programming and I want us to have a great starting point, so I’m asking you: What should CLE organizations be learning, discussing, and implementing to best educate lawyers?

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When Classes (and Credits) Aren’t Enough

March 20, 2011

A good conference has high quality presenters teaching on topics that matter. But a great conference brings all the right people to the same place at the same time. This is why we often see attendees who are slow to head back into the conference room after a break. They’re in conversations that matter with people they wouldn’t have seen but for the conference. And while the classes might be great and, yes, they get CLE credit for attending them, this conversation is why they came–whether they knew it at the time they registered or not.

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Where have all the young lawyers gone?

January 5, 2011

Bar associations have been noticing a trend. “Young lawyers aren’t attending networking events.” I’ve been hearing this more and I’ve heard many explanations for it. The most popular reasons seem to be: “they prefer to network online,” and “they just don’t have the work ethic that baby boomers did.” What I haven’t heard is, “Maybe we’re not offering the kind of networking events that young lawyers value.”

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Our First unCLE

November 6, 2010

I love unconferences. I’ve been to several over the last few years, and earlier this year I facilitated a session at an unconference focused on Gov 2.0 (what can I say? If I didn’t blog about CLE I’d probably blog about transparency in democracy). As taken as I am with them, there’s really nothing new [...]

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Rethinking the Classroom

October 12, 2010

It’s hard to argue that we should change the physical dimensions of a conference room if the way we’re teaching and learning hasn’t changed, but it’s still important to think about why we set up a conference room the way we do.

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Flipping the Script

October 8, 2010

The flip, or flip-thinking, was introduced to me by Dan Pink via Jeff Hurt, which I found amusing because it was actually happening right under my nose in a Colorado classroom led by high school algebra teacher, Karl Fisch. Fisch’s experiment, and the ways it might be used for continuing education, has finally managed to get me excited about hybrid events all over again.

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Sometimes “Sorry” Is the Best PR

June 2, 2009

Be sure to stop by Cece’s PR blog to take a look at a guest post I wrote about a conference I was running that veered off track. I actually wrote it while still at my last job, but the power of “sorry” transcends time. Here’s an excerpt: I’m in Sacramento because I organize and [...]

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It’s the Subtle Things that Matter

April 12, 2009

This weekend we had a guest stay over Friday night. On Saturday morning, I asked if anyone would like some steel-cut oatmeal. I said we had blackberries, walnuts, brown sugar and bananas as toppings, but I still had no takers. I made oatmeal anyway because I wanted some. When it was time for us all [...]

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The Conference Industry Might Learn a Thing or Two from Bookstores

March 13, 2009

Image by James Cridland via Flickr When I was in college, I worked at Barnes & Noble. The place was busy open to close. I have vivid memories of heated exchanges with women who came to buy Princess Di memorabilia books only to learn we were sold out. I have even better memories of customers [...]

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10 Ways to Build Poverty Awareness in Your Events – Blog Action Day

October 15, 2008

Image by jamesfischer Back in June, I interviewed Tamara Kennedy-Hill, the Executive Director of the Green Meeting Industry Council, and something she said has stuck with me: “Profit is good—but it’s also about the environment and your impact on the community. Have you left the community you were in better off or worse off?” When [...]

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