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Past Conferences

Summer Conference 2012, Seattle
July 12-14, 2012

The Seattle Conference included the following programs:

• Speak with Impact: Winning Presentations, Communications & Public Speaking
• Partner Competencies: Fact or Fiction
• Developing an Integrated Professional Presence in the Physical and Virtual Worlds
• By Design: Tools and Tips for Improving the Visual Impact of Your Content
• Good Lawyers but Poor Managers: How Your Lawyers Can Master Project Management, People Management and Client Communication
• Increasing Lawyer Resilience: New Remedies from the Front Lines
• MCLE is not a 4-letter word
• Removing Unconscious Bias from the Performance Evaluation Process
• Is Google Mangling or Magnifying Your Memory?
• A Place at the Table: Negotiating Skills for Professional Development Executives
• Sponsorship, Talent Management and Succession Planning: Making a Plan that Works for You
• An Innovation Tournament

Winter Meeting 2011, Washington DC
December 7, 2011

The Winter Meeting featured discussions and workshops focused on the strategic role PD can play to support client demands in the current environment and how PD professionals with their skills and competencies can help make themselves indispensible.

Summer Conference 2011, Chicago
July 14-16, 2011

The Chicago Conference included the following programs:

• Intensive Coaching Workshop: Two Powerful Tools to Enhance and Develop Your Coaching Skills Aligning PD Strategy with Firm Business Strategy
• Are Objective Assessments of Competencies Possible, Desirable, and even Essential?
• Roundtable discussion with members of the Board of the NALP Foundation
• Best and Worst of PD
• True Grit: Recent Studies and Implications for Female Lawyers
• Four "C"ing a Way Out of an Old Box – Modern Advocacy Skills Training Techniques for Millenials
• Understanding Change Management: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
• The Values Gap in Law Firms
• Exit Interviews: Complete – Now What?

Winter Meeting 2010, Washington D.C.
December 8, 2010

The D.C. Winter Meeting featured a workshop titled “How PD Professionals Can Utilize Coaching and Positive Psychology”

Summer Conference 2010, New York
July 15-17, 2007

The New York Summer Conference included the following programs:

• PD 101
• Defining Your Responsibilities and Growing Your Role
• Creating and Strengthening Key Relationships at the Firm
• Putting the Pieces Together
• Litigation Overview
• Transactional Boot Camps: One Size Does Not Fit All
  

Winter Meeting 2009, Washington D.C.
December 2, 2009

The D.C. Winter Meeting featured a discussion titled “Training First-Year Associates to be Productive from Day One”

Winter Conference 2009, Phoenix
February 5-7, 2009

The Phoenix Winter Conference included the following programs:

• Optimizing the Power of Action Learning
• Changing the Learning Paradigm with On-Demand Learning
• Are You Ready for e-Learning?
• Helping Lawyers Learn Better (or "You'll Never Get Your Money's Worth If They're Not Getting What You're Teaching")
• Opportunities in Legal Talent Development
  

Summer Conference 2008, Boston
July 31-August 1, 2008

The Boston Summer Conference included the following programs:

• Attorney Life Transitions
• Attorney Transitions: Coaching to keep the keepers
• Helping Our Firms to Transition: New tools and approaches
• Technology Transitions
• Speed-reading People
• Strategies to Transition Successfully

Winter Conference 2008, Orlando
February 7-9, 2007

The Orlando Winter Conference included the following programs:

• Creating a Culture That Makes Them Want to Stay
• Profile of a Leader
• Getting a Scat at the Strategic Table
• Strategic Planning 101
• Making the Business Case for Professional Development
• Leading Implementation of Assignment Processes

Summer Conference 2007, Boulder
July 26-28, 2007

The Boulder Summer Conference included the following programs:

• Methods for On-the-Job Training
• The Power of Pro Bono as a Training & Development Tool
• Business Development Training
• Litigation & Transactional Experiential Learning
• People Management: Delegation, Supervision & Feedback

Winter Conference 2007, San Antonio
February 1-3, 2007

The San Antonio Winter Conference included the following programs:

• The Business of Law:  What Law Firms Can Learn From Business Schools
• Bridging the Gap:  Toward a Coordination of Law School and Law Firm Education
• MCLE and Law Firms
• At the Crossroads:  Attorney Professional Development as a Collaborative Enterprise
• Post-Qualification Training and Assessment:  The Case of Scotland
• Rules for Using the PDC Discussion List
• vi Desktop:  Software Solutions for Law Firms

Summer Conference 2006, Toronto
July 27-29, 2006

The Toronto Summer Conference included the following programs:

• Management Competencies:  What's Next for You
• The Best PD Resources
• Let's Think Outside the Box: Organizational Change
• PD & KM for Maximum Performance
• Associate Panel - Listen Up!
• Women's Initiatives Network
• Trends in Corporate Training

Winter Conference 2006, Ft. Lauderdale
January 26-28, 2006

The Ft. Lauderdale Winter Conference included the following programs:

• An Icebreaker of Icebreakers
• Effective Use of Video-Conferencing
• Live E-learning Demonstration & Tips
• Laugh and Learn:   How to Use Humor to Boost Training Results
• Measuring the Success of Mentoring and Diversity Initiatives
• Personal Management Styles
• PDC Roadshow
• Mid to Senior Associate Skills Curriculum and Individual Development Plans
• Mid to Senior Associate Substantive Curriculum Development
• Finding and Selecting Executive Management Coaches
• Integration of New Partners and Lateral Associates

Summer Conference 2005, Philadelphia
July 28-30, 2005

• PDC Live! Make Your Program a Scene Stealer
• E-Learning in Law Firms
• How One Firm is Making E-Learning a Virtual Reality
• Learning Management Systems
• Delivering Training to Clientsk)
• PDC Roadshow
• Negotiation and Presentation Skills
• Diversity Initiatives
• Alternative Career Paths for Lawyers
• Work Assignment Systems
• E-Learning in PDC Firms

Winter Conference 2005, Santa Monica
Performance, Career, Development
January 27-29, 2005

The Santa Monica Winter Conference included the following programs:

• What are Competencies? Is it really everything but the kitchen sink?
• Best Practices in Creating Competencies: There is always more than one way to get there!
• So You Have Competencies: So now what?
• Effective Evaluations: Halos, horns and everyone in between
• Development Planning: Helping associates plan a future instead of "falling" into one
• Career Counselors: An emerging role in PD
• Exit Programs and Outplacement: How they leave can make or break your firm

The Chicago Summer Conference included the following programs:

• How and Why Generations Differ: Attitudes, Values and Behaviors
• From WW's to X's and Y's: Building Bridges between the Generations in the Legal Workplace
• Managing the Differences in Generational Expectations in Your Law Firm
• How to Develop In-House Management Leadership Programs
• Different Aspects of Professional Development for Different Generations - Shaping your role to add more value to the Firm and yourself; building your path as a PD professional; the importance of forming relationships within your Firm; benchmarks for PD Professionals; getting started as a new PD professional; positioning ourselves strategically in our Firms
• The Professional Development "Roadshow" - Size does matter: issues particular to small law firms; creative ways to train in the smaller offices of large firms; litigation training; designing and implementing orientation programs; creative training ideas

The Austin Winter Conference included the following programs:

• Negotiating Skills for PD Professionals: How to Get the Edge You Want, When You Need It
• Beyond Flip-Charts and Markers: What Every PD Person Should Know About the Technological Possibilities That Can Improve Your Programs and Make You IT-Independent
• No Talking Heads! Interactive, Innovative Programs that Worked
• Measuring Effectiveness of Your Programs: A Case Study of How One Firm Captures Value from Training on All Four Levels
• Professional Development "Roadshow" - Business development skills training; mentoring programs that work; corporate training programs; overall tips for effective curriculum design; mid-level associate training; senior associate/partner training

The San Francisco Conference included the following programs:

• Communicating with Impact
• Measuring the Effectiveness of Professional Development Programs
• The Best and Worst of 2003
• The Future of the PDC
• Expanding Your Influence and Effectiveness

The New Orleans Conference included the following programs:

• Pre-Conference Workshop - Learning and Development: Implications for Continuing Legal Education - Four key learning styles, designing learning activities that incorporate the four key learning styles, life cycle issues and continuing legal education, cognitive development and continuing legal education
• Leadership Training and Professional Development Part I: Defining Leadership - Where to Begin...
• Leadership Programs of 2002: Judges' Choices
• Management and Leadership Training for Lawyers
• Leadership: Benchmarking & Competencies/Non-Lockstep Compensation
• Litigation Skill-Based Training: Using In-House Personnel and External Trainers
• Leadership Training & Professional Development Part II: Applying Leadership Skills - A Live Exercise

The PDC Montreal Conference included the following programs:

• Pre-Conference Workshop: Who am I and what am I supposed to be doing?; Putting the pieces together - curriculum building and planning; MCLE - Why me?
• Innovative Ideas: Best and Worst Initiatives of 2002
• Lice from the Listserve: An In-Depth Look at One Topic that Has Recently Dominated the Wires - Benchmarking
• The "How To's" of Developing a Litigation Training Program at Your Firm From Scratch
• Roundtable Discussions - Part I: Being Empowered at Your Firm
• Roundtable Discussions - Part II: Being an Asset to Your Firm

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