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NEW YORK, February 3, 2005—Practising Law Institute (PLI), the leading provider of continuing legal education, and American Management Association (AMA), the world's leading membership-based management education and development organization, announced a new partnership today to bring AMA's management and business training to the legal community. Under the new partnership, PLI privileged members will receive preferred pricing on all AMA seminars and training resources.
“In order to be successful in today's competitive legal field, attorneys need to have a wide range of core leadership, management and interpersonal skills that they can draw upon,” said Victor J. Rubino, executive director of PLI. “That's why we are working with American Management Association to bring AMA's business and management seminars and other training resources to our members to help improve individual job performance and the overall success of their organizations.”
“Every year, American Management Association helps tens of thousands of professionals acquire the real-world knowledge and practical skills that are essential in building careers and strengthening organizations,” said AMA president and CEO Edward T. Reilly. “AMA is delighted to be working with The Practising Law Institute to extend the benefits of AMA seminars, executive forums, books and other training resources to the legal community.”
AMA offers more than 160 seminars in general management, interpersonal skills, project management, communication skills, human resources, sales, marketing, leadership and finance. Programs are offered at all levels, from CEOs and senior executives to new managers and administrative professionals. Business professionals with real-world experience facilitate AMA programs and use practical, action-oriented content that can be immediately applied in the workplace.
For more information on this joint initiative, visit www.pli.edu/ama or call toll free 1.800.313.8650.
About AMA
American Management Association is the world's leading membership-based management development organization. Since 1923, it has provided valuable and practical action-oriented learning programs to business professionals at every stage of their careers. More than 500,000 AMA customers and members a year learn new skills and behaviors, gain more confidence, advance their careers and contribute to the success of their organizations through a wide range of AMA seminars, conferences and executive forums, as well as through AMA books and publications, research, online learning and self-study courses.
About PLI
Practising Law Institute (PLI), founded in 1933 and chartered by the Regents of the University of the State of New York , is a non-profit continuing legal education organization dedicated to providing the legal community with the most up-to-date information available. To do this, we offer more than 300 seminars annually in locations across the U.S., specialized in-house training programs, interactive multimedia, Web programs, course handbooks and annually-supplemented treatises. In addition, PLI annually awards over 4,700 full and partial scholarships to our programs. PLI is headquartered in New York City with offices in California. For more information, go to www.pli.edu.
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