All the skills needed to thrive in the Modern Law Practice
efficiently and effectively taught by experts from across the profession
About the Curriculum
The Modern Law Practice Certification was developed in response to feedback from legal employers, law school professors, law school career services professionals, and law students. The curriculum teaches business operating skills to help legal professionals at every level to better serve their clients and effectively navigate today’s multidisciplinary business environments.
The fully online curriculum consists of 10+ classroom hours of asynchronous instruction in sought-after topic areas such as data analytics, product and service design, legal technology, process improvement and project management, and business and finance.
The Courses
Complete and pass these 6 courses to earn the mark of distinction that employers count on: the Modern Law Practice Certification.
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Welcome!
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Intro to Our Course Player
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New Member Survey
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Chapter 2: Historical Arc of the Legal Profession
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Chapter 3: Two Hemispheres
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Chapter 4: Lagging Legal Productivity
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Chapter 5: Our Multidisciplinary Future
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Chapter 6: Paradigm Change
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Chapter 7: Access to Justice
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Final Exam
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Welcome to my course! From Senior Instructor Kim Craig
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Lesson #1: Lean Six Sigma, The Origin Story, Part 1
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Lesson #2: Lean Six Sigma, The Origin Story, Part 2
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Quiz: Lessons #1 and #2 (LSS, The Origin Story)
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Lesson #3: How and When to Apply the Lean Six Sigma Framework
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Quiz: Lesson #3 (Applying the Lean Six Sigma Framework)
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Lesson #4: The Discipline of Project Management, Part 1
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Quiz: Lesson #4 (The Discipline of Project Management Part 1)
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Lesson #5: The Discipline of Project Management, Part 2
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Quiz: Lesson #5 (The Discipline of Project Management Part 2)
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Lesson #6: Bringing it all together with our Case Study
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Final Exam: Legal Process and Project Leadership Fundamentals
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Welcome to my course! From Senior Instructor Joshua Kubicki
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Chapter 1: What is Design?
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Quiz: Chapter #1
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Chapter 2: Design: A brief history and origin story
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Quiz: Chapter #2
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Chapter 3: Two Mega-trends
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Quiz: Chapter #3
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Chapter 4: Current Design Trends & Design Thinking
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Quiz: Chapter #4
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Chapter 5: Why Legal Business Design Now?
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Quiz: Chapter #5
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Chapter 6: Legal Business Design Fundamentals
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Quiz: Chapter #6
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Chapter 7: Validity
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Quiz: Chapter #7
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Chapter 8: Desirability
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Quiz: Chapter #8
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Chapter 9: Feasibility
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Quiz: Chapter #9
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Chapter 10: Legal Business Design Applied: Case Study
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Final Exam: Principles of Legal Business Design
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Welcome to our course! From Senior Instructors, Andrew Baker and Karl Haraldsson
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Chapter 1 (Introduction) Lesson 1: Definitions
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Chapter 1 (Introduction) Lesson 2: Out of Industry Topics
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Chapter 1 Quiz (Introduction)
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Chapter 2 (Analytics in Law) Lesson 1: Current Drivers of Data Analytics
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Chapter 2 (Analytics in Law) Lesson 2: Classes of Legal Analytics
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Chapter 2 (Analytics in Law) Lesson 3: Examples
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Chapter 2 Quiz:(Analytics in Law)
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Chapter 3 (Understanding Data) Lesson 1: Types of Data
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Chapter 3 Quiz: (Understanding Data)
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Chapter 4 (Analysis) Lesson 1: Introduction to Analysis
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Chapter 4 (Analysis) Lesson 2: Regression
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Chapter 4 (Analysis) Lesson 3: Classification
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Chapter 4 (Analysis) Lesson 4: Clustering
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Chapter 4 (Analysis) Lesson 5: Natural Language Processing
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Chapter 4 (Analysis) Lesson 6: Named Entity Recognition
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Chapter 4 (Analysis) Lesson 7: Document / Text Similarity
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Chapter 4 (Analysis) Lesson 8: Text Summarization & Generation
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Chapter 4 (Analysis) Lesson 9: Text Analysis Summary
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Chapter 4 Quiz: (Analysis)
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Chapter 5 (Accessibility & Tools) Lesson 1: Visualization
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Chapter 5 (Accessibility & Tools) Lesson 2: Sourcing Data
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Chapter 5 (Accessibility & Tools) Lesson 3: Tools & Technology
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Chapter 5 Quiz: (Accessibility & Tools)
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Chapter 6 (Application & Summary) Lesson 1: Application of Case Study
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Chapter 6 (Application & Summary) Lesson 2: Conclusion & Final Thoughts
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Final Exam: Data Analytics for Legal Professionals
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Welcome to our course! From Senior Instructors Jeff Carr and Carl Lukach
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Chapter 1 Part 1: Financial Statements
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Chapter 1 Part 2: Financial Statements
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Quiz: Chapter #1 (Financial Statements)
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Chapter 2: Strategy & Planning
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Quiz: Chapter #2 (Strategy & Planning)
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Chapter 3: The Economics of Acquisitions & Divestitures
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Quiz: Chapter 3 (The Economics of Acquisitions & Divestitures)
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Chapter 4: Running a Legal Team Like a Business
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Quiz: Chapter 4 (Running a Legal Team Like a Business)
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Chapter 5: Applying What We Learned: A conversational approach to the case study
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Final Exam: Business and Finance Operations
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Modern Law Practice Certification
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Students and Professionals weigh-in on the value of the Modern Law Practice curriculum
Learning key skills that broadened my job options
'Today, I manage platforms and systems that I didn't know existed before my boot camp experience. This program gave me the leg up I needed to be successful in roles I never would have learned about in law school."
Opening Doors
“I found the curriculum very rigorous, but I enjoyed it. Law school is heavy on theory. In contrast, IFLP helps you understand the business aspects of law,
and that’s so important for young lawyers who want to make it in this industry, which is changing rapidly."
A leg up for a 1st generation college grad
“[I] applied to IFLP because the traditional paths and networking weren’t available to us. We were looking for ways to make ourselves more marketable." With IFLP "[t]here was a lot of great knowledge to be gained, all taught by experts. The content was very practical and directed toward accelerating our growth in the profession."
A win for a lifelong in-house learner
"What skills (beyond your legal core toolbox) help you succeed in the legal markets of today and tomorrow? IFLP has compiled the foundations in an easy-to-digest format."
Adding to my legal tool belt
"The legal space is constantly evolving, and this certification from the Institute for the Future of Law Practice is the first step in the right direction of the legal industry. By learning from various areas such as Legal Project Management, Legal Business Design, Data Analytics for Legal Professionals, and Understanding and Working with Legal technologies, I can add what I learned to my tool belt as a legal professional."