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Classes
We bring our classes and workshops into your office
Magellan's Law Corporation offers several classes and workshops that can be conducted in your offices.
Effective Case Planning
It's important to have a strategy for the use of information in your case and a plan for acquiring, processing, and using that information. The process doesn't begin with discovery; it begins with a planning meeting. We've facilitated hundreds of these meetings for large litigation. This class is aimed at giving you the skills to conduct such a meeting and to develop a plan that lays out the who, what, when, and how-much-will-it-cost for your cases. When the class is done, you'll know how to establish the agenda, elicit needed information, force hard decisions, and reach agreement on tasks and budget.
Applying Best Practices to Discovery Tasks
This class is goes from theory to practice. We start with general principles. How do you plan a task -- how do you correctly estimate the time, staffing, and costs? How can you build effective quality measurements into a task? Once a task is underway, how do you "manage to the plan" and keep quality high, costs within budget, and the project on time. Then we'll look at specific discovery and information management tasks, talk about approaches, and discuss common pitfalls (and what you can do to avoid them). A practical, nitty gritty workshop for the people in your firm who plan, manage and carry out these tasks.
Designing and Building an Effective Document Database
Firms that consistently produce good document databases don't do it by chance. They have standard approaches -- matched to the specific litigation they handle -- that they execute consistently. There approach includes four components: One or more database designs that fit their litigation profile; processes that meet the standards of best practices; effective communication across the litigation team, and staff that is continuously trained. In this workshop, we'll talk about options and help you put together a plan for your practice group.
Applying Technology to Smaller Cases
Litigation and information technology is typically applied to the big cases. Lawyers handling the smaller cases get by with manual approaches or -- at best -- a document index built in an Excel spreadsheet. It doesn't have to be that way. Technology can give you cost savings, efficiencies, and a tactical advantage in smaller cases, too. In this workshop, you'll learn how to judge the right places to apply technology in small cases. You'll learn the tools that are available, the approach to take, and how to calculate costs (and savings).
Internal Marketing of Your Litigaton Support Department
This is a workshop aimed at litigation support professionals. Many firms have high quality internal litigation support capabilities that are sadly under-utilized. Litigation support professionals repeatedly see cases where lawyers passed up a great chance to use technology -- or who used a second- or third-rate technology -- because the capabilities of the internal department simply escape notice. This workshop will help you develop and implement a marketing plan to make sure the lawyers and paralegals in your firm make good use of the resources that are available in-house.
Conduct classes in your own offices. It's hard for legal professionals to take time away from the office, so we'll come to you. If you can provide the space, we'll bring the program.
Customizable. The classes listed on this page are popular titles that meet the needs of many firms. However, we can develop an agenda and a class to meet your special requirements, and we can adjust both the content and the length of our existing classes.
CLE credit may apply. Classes offered by Magellan's Law Corporation may be eligible for CLE credits in your state. We'll be happy to provide you with a curriculumn that you can submit for approval.
