One of the “Benefits of Membership” in ALA is ready access to a wide array of educational benefits. Click on the links below to find out the many ways your association is working for you.

Legal Management Resource Center
Thousands of publications compiled from Web sites, associations, businesses and libraries to help you get the legal management answers you need, now. It’s research made easy.
http://thesource.alanet.org

ALA Management Encyclopedia^sm
The single-best starting point for research on management topics, such as enhancing profitability, substance abuse, trust accounts, hiring laterals and records management.
http://www.alaencyclopedia.org

Member Only Benefit - ALA Currents is a subscription-based management news service provided exclusively for members of the Association of Legal Administrators. Delivered to you via e-mail directly to your desktop or from Members Only in www.alanet.org, ALA Currents provides the most timely information in the marketplace pertaining to legal management.
http://www.alanet.org/members/currents/default.asp

Member Only Benefit - Value in Partnership (VIP)^SM Program
The Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) is pleased to offer its line of member benefits, providing an array of resources and services at discounted rates from nationally known companies. ALA members, their employers and their families have the opportunity to enjoy the savings these benefits provide. To secure your discount, identify yourself as an ALA member and provide ALA’s customer number/code. In some instances, you may also be required to present your current ALA Membership Card. Additional programs are on the horizon, so watch this section of the ALA Web site for updates on new savings opportunities!
http://www.alanet.org/members/prog.aspx

Find A Legal Vendor (Search www.alanet.org Web Site)
The right products and services are key to successful legal administration. This section of the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) Web site provides links to information supplied by consultants, suppliers, manufacturers, service providers and training organizations.
ALA offers no direct endorsement of products and services represented by vendors listed in this section. Likewise, ALA assumes no responsibility for the currency or accuracy of information, or the availability of any products or services, noted in any vendor materials.
http://www.alanet.org/vendors/index.asp

WEBINARS
The Webinar programs are presented live by experts in their field and allow participants to listen and interact with the speaker as if in person. In addition, when you purchase a Webinar, you are authorized to invite an unlimited number of staff or colleagues to attend the program at your site. This is a high quality, time efficient, and cost effective distance learning opportunity for legal management professionals.

Certified Legal Manager (CLM)^SM Certification Program
Demonstrate mastery of the body of knowledge necessary for successful performance in managing a law firm or office.

ALA promotes the legal management profession. Sets and educates members to high levels of practice, to provide a professional journal of some type, and facilitates social contact/networking.

ALA is become a leader in the areas of networking and publications. ALA concentrates on ways to enhance the profession and increase the competency level of legal administrators as stated in ALA’s mission:

To improve the quality of management in legal services organizations; promote and enhance the competence and professionalism of legal administrators and all members of the management team; and represent professional legal management and managers to the legal community and to the community at large.

Law firm administrators feel intense pressure to keep up with the demands of their jobs. This is reflected in heightened concern for quality education programs. Disseminating information through journals and conferences is important, but leading associations also must take an active role in assessing learner needs and designing programs that more fully support the member.

ALA provides guidance and direction in the educational process, through the CLM program by which an individual measures his or her ability to perform the job of legal administrator. Becoming certified, via CLM is strictly voluntary, and is open to all qualified legal administrators.

ALA Reference Desk / ALA Management Solutions^SM:

The Reference Desk/ ALA Management Solutions^SM is a legal management reference service provided free to ALA members.

Reference Desk Research Studies

Using a wide array of in-house and on-line resources, the ALA Management Solutions^SM staff develop meaningful and timely responses to your management questions. They access targeted information from an in-house legal management library that includes:

• Surveys
• Statistics
• Policies
• Samples
• Templates
• Books and articles
• Internet resources
• In-house proprietary electronic database

Responses are in the form of individually crafted Research Studies specifically developed for the inquiry, and often include Web links, copies of relevant articles and print pieces. When appropriate, the responses will also include detailed statistical or survey data.

This service operates from ALA’s headquarters in Lincolnshire, Illinois, and is staffed by full-time industry veterans with extensive research skills and experience.