January - June 2023: Assisted newly appointed Training Director in assessing training needs, developing year long training plan, organizing topics for agency brief bank, revising new lawyer bi-annual training agenda, help plan conference, will speak at conference in Helena, MT taking place Oct 10-12, 2023. 2023 New lawyer training took place in mid April, will be repeated in September. Meetings occur 2-3x/month.
July-Dec. 2023: Assisted newly appointed Training Director in assessing training needs, developing yearlong training plan, organizing topics for agency brief bank,revising new lawyer bi-annual training agenda, helped plan conference, in Helena MT which took place Oct 10-12, 2023. 2023 New lawyer training took place in mid April, will be repeated in September. Meetings occur 2-3x/month. Am now working on assisting them with planning a “road show” which is a travelling training program around the state and support staff training.
January- June 2024: Assisted newly appointed Training Director in assessing training needs, developing yearlong training plan, organizing topics for agency brief bank, revising new lawyer bi-annual training agenda, helped plan conference, in Helena MT which took place Oct 10-12, 2023. Also assisted with obtaining a full day speaker for their fall 2024 conference. New lawyer training took place in mid-April, will be repeated in September. Meetings occurred 2-3x/month. Unfortunately, both the training director and her deputy training director left their positions this winter and I have not yet spoken with whoever is taking their place. I hope to do so shortly to ensure they can profit from all the work we did.
July-Dec. 2024: Assisted newly appointed Training Director in assessing training needs, developing yearlong training plan, organizing topics for agency brief bank, revising new lawyer bi-annual training agenda; brainstormed with staff and suggested speakers, assisted with development of tracked and interactive breakouts for their annual meeting in Helena MT which took place Oct 10-12, 2023. Also assisted with obtaining a full day speaker for their fall 2024 conference. New lawyer training took place in mid-April and September 2023; program is slated to continue 2x/year. There has been staff changes during the program; we remained in contact with the training staff throughout the project. The agency will continue to participate in sending staff and faculty to Mountain trial skills. Current contacts are Anna de Wolfe, ADeWolf@mt.gov and Joanie Burbridge, jburbridge@mt.gov.
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January - June 2023: Assisted newly appointed Training Director in assessing training needs, developing year long training plan, organizing topics for agency brief bank, revising new lawyer bi-annual training agenda, help plan conference, will speak at conference in Helena MT taking place Oct 10-12, 2023. 2023 New lawyer training took place in mid April, will be repeated in September. Meetings occur 2-3x/month.
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