Training and Organizational Development Services Benchmark Institute provides Core Skills Programs in Legal Skills and Leadership, Substantive Law Training and Organizational Development Consulting. The Core Skill Programs are rooted in the idea that people must have certain skills and knowledge to be competent in their work. The Core Programs provide a basic training plan for achieving an acceptable level of competence. The training events in each Core Program are set out on the next page. Required training courses are designed to insure that each participant obtains the critical knowledge and skills necessary to be an effective client, lawyer, leader, legal assistant or paralegal in a legal services or public interest law firm.
Electives enable participants to individualize their training to focus on their unique career goals.
Each Core Skills Program will become a certificate program when all the training events within a Program have been developed. Participants may earn a certificate when they complete required and selected elective trainings and pass a hands-on proficiency examination. Substantive Law Training In partnership with substantive law experts, Benchmark has designed substantive law training in Family, Housing and Public Benefits. These trainings are the beginning of Core Programs in these substantive areas. As with the Core Skills Programs, each Substantive Core Program will be designed to help people achieve the knowledge and skills necessary for competent practice in that area.