When the Practising Law Institute acquired the\u00a0programming assets\u00a0of the old SEC Institute we all knew change was needed.<\/p>\n
Since PLI is a not-for-profit organization, trying to be sure we were true to the not-for-profit mission of PLI meant we had to think about new ways to do things.\u00a0 And, the old SEC Institute model had to be updated to make the programs economically sustainable.<\/p>\n
With the transaction not happening until January of this year, we also knew we had to\u00a0put our plans for 2014 together very quickly. \u00a0Just finding locations for our workshops and seminars was a huge challenge, but we did not want to go for half a year without offering\u00a0\u00a0you\u00a0our programs.<\/p>\n
Of course, our first priority was making sure our seminars and workshops hit the same quality mark\u00a0that you have always expected.<\/p>\n
As we hustled to get our calendar out and deal with all of the other tactical issues, we knew we would learn in this process.\u00a0 And, we have.<\/p>\n
From our participant feedback so far this year we are already making changes.<\/p>\n
We are changing the facilities we are using, trying to work more in our\u00a0state-of-the-art\u00a0PLI training centers where all attendees will find iPads at their seat with electronic access to the course materials, are providing handouts of all presentation materials and will make available electronic copies after the seminars for downloading, and\u00a0are fine tuning the \u00a0hotels\u00a0to\u00a0fit\u00a0your\u00a0expectations.<\/p>\n
For example, we are moving our\u00a010th Annual SEC Reporting & FASB Forum for Mid-sized & Smaller Companies<\/a>\u00a0in September back to the Four Seasons in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n And we will now provide lunch to all participants of our workshops and seminars.<\/p>\n We want to keep learning and be sure we offer programs the way you want them to be offered, so the last part of this post is a request for any feedback you have to offer.\u00a0 We will listen\u00a0and\u00a0we will respond.<\/p>\n You can email our instructors, George Wilson or Carol Stacey,\u00a0or\u00a0our program attorney, Robin Goldstein\u00a0at the email addresses below.<\/p>\n Thank you for taking time to help us!<\/p>\n gwilson@pli.edu<\/a><\/p>\n cstacey@pli.edu<\/a><\/p>\n rgoldstein@pli.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the Practising Law Institute acquired the\u00a0programming assets\u00a0of the old SEC Institute we all knew change was needed. Since PLI is a not-for-profit organization, trying to be sure we were true to the not-for-profit mission of PLI meant we had to think about new ways to do things.\u00a0 And, the old SEC Institute model had … Continue reading Updates as we Climb the Learning Curve at the SEC Institute Division of PLI<\/span>