2011 Biennial Conference for Legal Services Managers

February 4, 2011

The Management Information Exchange will be holding it's 2011 Biennial Conference for Legal Services Managers - Management Essentials in Challenging Times: Tools and Best Practices, on March 10-11, 2011 at the Holiday Inn Express Downtown, 920 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37203.

Being a successful manager has never been more challenging than it is today. A poor economy, shrinking resources, tight staffing, surging client need – these are just some of the issues facing legal services managers. This conference offers you the essential skills you need to manage effectively in challenging times.

In two intensive days, you will achieve greater insight into the tools and best practices of managing and leading. Through presentation, discussion, self-assessment and feedback, you will learn to build teams, manage performance, solve problems, manage conflict and improve advocacy for clients. Having determined your own areas for development, you will prepare a personal action plan to become a more effective, less stressed manager.

You will leave this conference with new insights, strategies, tools – and a personal action plan - you can use immediately upon returning to your office.

Who Should Attend?

New legal aid managers - come to learn essential management skills that will help you succeed at your job.
Experienced legal aid managers - come back to this Managers Conference to improve your management essentials in challenging times.
For best value, come to this training with colleagues from your program - managers, supervisors, deputy directors and executive director.

Special Guest Presenters:

Jules Lobel: Jules Lobel's Success Without Victory: Lost Legal Battles And The Long Road To Justice In America documents lost legal battles along the road to justice in America. Winning isn’t everything in the practice of law, he suggests - lessons can be learned from legal and political activists who have advocated losing causes in court, only to make huge contributions to changing American society. Lobel is a University of Pittsburgh professor who lectures on constitutional, international, human rights and foreign relations law.

Deb Ellis: Deb Ellis has spoken and published on women’s rights and public interest legal careers, and brings the conference ideas on effective hiring and retention practices, and nurturing the next generation of public interest lawyers. Ellis is the Assistant Dean for Public Interest Law and directs the Public Interest Law Center (PILC) and the Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship Program at the New York University School of Law. She has taught NYU’s Public Policy Advocacy Clinic, based at The Brennan Center.

Registration:

MIE subscribers: $415; non-subscribers: $515 Registration includes all workshops, materials and continental breakfast.

Lodging:

Guest room rates $122/night, single/double, plus tax, includes complimentary breakfast buffet, complimentary wireless internet access in guest rooms, public and meeting space, and complimentary 2-mile radius shuttle services. To reserve call 877-443-7829, identifying the Management Information Exchange group. Reserve your room by February 16, 2011.