OUR PUBLICATIONS: 

The Capital CLE Calendar   Professional Development Quarterly  
Survey Reports  Other Publications  Editorial Policy

THE CAPITAL CLE CALENDAR (CCC) is an online schedule of live, in-person public CLE courses across the United States. It includes:

• Course Schedules. Choose from thousands of live, in-person CLE seminars and workshops by over 130 leading national and local providers, organized by topic and date, in ten major metropolitan areas (more cities will be added in future months):
• Atlanta
• Austin
• Chicago
• Dallas
• Houston
• Los Angeles
• New York
• Philadelphia
• San Francisco
• Washington, DC

Enjoy the superior learning and networking benefits of live, in-person CLE, save time and travel expense by finding courses close to your location, and fulfill MCLE credit requirements.

• Provider Directories. Get more information or register for a live, in-person course listed in CCC -- or find online courses, in-person courses in additional cities, or courses specifically pre-accredited by your state -- by linking to the leading CLE providers' web sites from our directories of:
  • National providers
  • State bar providers in all 50 states and the District of Columbia
  • Local providers in the 10 CCC metropolitan areas

  Many of these providers also offer accredited 24/7 online CLE, available on demand at your desktop.

• MCLE Rule Summaries and Links. Review a summary of your state's CLE requirements and deadlines, or link to the CLE board's web site to check your compliance status, get a list of pre-approved courses, check details of the rules, download application or reporting forms, etc.

CCC's course calendar is exceptionally comprehensive. And it is readable, printable, and keyword-searchable in the leading web browsers.

Other CLE schedules have come and gone. CCC, however, has been in continuous publication since October 1994. It has continuously improved and expanded over that time thanks to our subscribers' suggestions and comments. We look forward to serving your continuing education needs. Contact us for more information and a private tour.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY (PDQ) is a journal focused on best practices and resources for lawyers' professional development. Our authors are the pre-eminent experts in the field of professional development, and our feature articles have been reprinted and/or reviewed in Of Counsel, Law Firm Partnership and Benefits Report, the NALP Bulletin, The CLE Journal, and Practice Management. PDQ is published four times a year in PDF format and forwarded by e-mail. (See a list of topics, authors and titles in the Articles Indexes for 1999-2002 and 2003-2007.)

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SURVEY REPORTS (Click on the date to see an Executive Summary.)

CLE SUPPORT AND TRACKING: February 2003. 

DIVERSITY PROGRAMS: February and May 2005. 

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS: February 2004. 

PARTNER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

Part 1. Upward Evaluation: February 2008 (updates a 2002 survey)

Part 2. Other Partner Development Programs: May 2008 (updates a 2003 survey)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUDGETS & STAFFING: February and May 2007 (updates a 2002 survey)  

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS: The 1995 Professional Development Survey of Large Law Offices in the Greater Washington/ Baltimore Area, conducted in collaboration with the Washington-Area Professional Development Administrators (now the DC Professional Development Group).  (Out of print.) 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGY: February 2006 (updates a 2001 survey)

UPWARD EVALUATION PROGRAMS: February 2002  (Updated in 2008; see "Partner Development Programs" above.)

OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

A Business Skills Curriculum for Law Firm Associates, with Stephen R. Chitwood and Anita F. Gottlieb. A competency model for law firm associates developed in a two-year research project in which over 45 large and small law firms across the country participated. Identifies and defines 58 associate competencies organized in six categories:

1. Managing One's Own Work
2. Being an Effective Member of the Team
3. Client Relations and Client Development Skills
4. Managing and Supervising Others' Work
5. Understanding the Firm's Operations and Procedures
6. General Business Skills

Provides guidance for organizing an associate development program based on the model, with progressive learning objectives and lists of available training resources. Published in 2001 by the Association of Legal Administrators.

"Professional Development for Competence, Performance, and Results." Chapter 12 in Maximizing Law Firm Profitability: Hiring, Training and Developing Productive Lawyers, edited by Susan G. Manch and Marcia Pennington Shannon and published in 2005 by Law Journal Press, a division of American Lawyer Media.

EDITORIAL POLICY: 

Our mission is to keep law office professionals informed about best practices and available resources in professional development and continuing legal education.  

Our sole commitment is to the benefit of our subscribers, and subscriptions and reprints are the sole source of revenue for our periodicals. There is no charge to CLE providers for listing their courses. We do not accept advertising, and we do not sell our mailing lists nor any other information about our subscribers.  Evelyn Gaye Mara, principal in Professional Development Services, is the publisher, managing editor, and copyright holder.