Elevate your law firm’s technological proficiency with our comprehensive LTC4 certification services. As an approved vendor for the globally recognized Legal Technology Core Competencies Certification (LTC4), we offer tailored solutions to help your firm demonstrate its commitment to efficiency and client service through legal technology certification.
Whether you’re looking for a self-guided approach, a customizable framework, or a full-service solution, our flexible options cater to your firm’s unique needs and resources. Empower your team with industry-standard skills, boost productivity, and showcase your technological competence to clients with our expert-designed LTC4 certification pathways.
Our library of LTC4 Aligned Courseware & Knowledge Checks streamline your pathway to all 10 Core Competency Certifications
LTC4 Content & Assessments
As an approved LTC4 vendor of content and assessments for all core competencies, we’re uniquely positioned to assist you in achieving LTC4 Certification with your training program. We’re committed to helping LTC4 establish a legal industry standard for certification in legal tech competence and our team can work with you, ensuring a seamless process.
How We Help You Get LTC4 Certified
Want to show clients your law firm is tech-savvy? LTC4 is the gold standard for proving your team knows how to use legal tech efficiently. As an approved LTC4 provider, we offer easy ways to get your firm certified. Whether you want to run the program yourself, customize it, or have us handle everything, we’ve got you covered. Our legal technology certification options make it simple to boost your team’s skills and show clients you’re on top of your tech game. Ready to make your firm stand out? Let’s get you started with LTC4 certification…
Take control of your LTC4 certification with our DIY kit. We provide you with official LTC4 Matrices and our expert-crafted courseware and knowledge checks. This option is perfect for firms with strong internal training capabilities who want to tailor the learning experience to their unique workflows. You’ll have everything you need to create a custom-fit LTC4 certification path for each plan, empowering your team to learn and certify at their own pace.
Want a balance between customization and support? Our guided custom assessment gives you the best of both worlds. We’ll set you up with a pre-formatted LTC4 assessment template in our user-friendly platform. This approach allows you to capture your firm’s specific processes while leveraging our proven assessment structure. It’s ideal for firms who want to put their unique stamp on the certification process without starting from scratch.
Solution
We’ll do all the heavy lifting with our White-Glove Certification Service. We’ll build fully customized assessments tailored to your firm’s exact needs and technologies. You’ll get a turnkey solution that integrates with your existing systems and workflows. Plus, gain access to detailed results and analytics through our platform. This option is perfect for busy firms who want a hassle-free path to LTC4 certification with maximum impact and minimum effort on their part.
What is LTC4 Certification?
Legal technology certifications, such as the LTC4 (Legal Technology Core Competencies Certification), are professional credentials designed to validate an individual’s proficiency in using various tech relevant to the legal field. These certifications typically cover areas like document management, e-discovery, case management, legal research tools, time and billing software, and cybersecurity.
The LTC4 aims to certify legal professionals and their support staff’s ability to use technology; enhancing efficiency, accuracy, and compliance in legal work. These credentials are valuable for a wide range of professionals in the legal sector, including lawyers, paralegals, legal secretaries, IT professionals in law firms, and legal operations managers
Legal Technology Certification LTC4 Core Competencies
LTC4 consists of 10 scenario-based “Learning Plans” that cover essential technology skills for legal professionals. These plans are application-agnostic, workflow-based, and adaptable to individual firm policies.
Working with Legal Documents
Increase efficiency and productivity and reduce risk when preparing, editing, and comparing well-formatted documents. Applications may include Word, PDF, DMS and compare tools.
Managing Documents & Emails
Promote consistent, efficient, and risk-free and accurate use of the Document Management System when saving, filing and sending documents and e-mails. The Managing Documents and Emails learning plan includes your DMS, Word and Outlook/Gmail and your PDF application.
Collaborating with Others
Ensure secure and efficient collaboration with the internal team as well as clients, outside counsel, agencies, and vendors. Applications may include Outlook, PDF, metadata scrubber.
Time Recording
Promote consistent, timely, accurate recording and submitting of time within your Firm’s policies and expectations.
Hybrid Working
Ensure understanding and compliance with your firm’s remote access tools and protocol to work efficiently, responsibly and securely.
Security Awareness
Protect the confidentiality of the firm’s documents and information, and guarding against fraud, in line with your own firm’s security policies and procedures.
Data and Reports
Organize, create and share data and reports as accurately, efficiently and securely as possible. Uses Excel and your firm’s PDF application.
Client Management (CRM)
Increase business using your CRM tool by capturing and sharing client information and activities for marketing and business development.
Visual Communications
Effective use of multi-media (including PowerPoint) in communicating information in a concise, persuasive, and engaging format.
Video Conferencing
Provide the skills needed to confidently participate in and facilitate remote meetings.
We deliver best-in-class e-learning content solutions aligned to LTC4 certification, so if you don’t have your own LMS and course content library in place already, don’t worry! Take a look at our award-winning, industry leading Learning Management System to host, manage, and monitor all of your legal technology certification progress.
Questions About LTC4 Certification
LTC4
Volunteers from law firms worldwide manage LTC4 and it is regularly updated to remain relevant to the evolving demands of the legal industry.
LTC4 certification itself requires annual renewal. Options 1 and 2 will also have Intellek subscription costs. Get in touch and we can provide a detailed cost breakdown tailored to your firm’s needs.
Our LTC4 certification services are flexible:
- You can certify the entire firm or specific groups/departments
- We can create customized paths for different practice areas
- Phased implementation across departments is possible
We’ll work with you to design a certification strategy that fits your firm’s structure and goals.
LTC4 allows for various training methods, including classroom, web-based virtual classroom, or online e-learning. The certification process is flexible, with firms able to implement it at various stages, such as new hire onboarding, during technology rollouts, or as part of professional development initiatives.
We offer several integration options:
- Our materials can be imported into most major LMS platforms
- For Option 1, we provide LMS-friendly SCORM format of our courseware
- Options 2 and 3 use our Create platform, which can make HTML or AICC content.
We’ll assess your current LMS and recommend the best approach.
The duration varies depending on the option chosen and the firm’s pace:
- Option 1 (Self-Guided Approach): We can provide the content on the same day if you wish, it’s then up to you to map the matrices and control the pace of roll-out.
- Option 2 (Customizable Assessment): Usually 4-6 weeks, depending on how confident you are with the workflows.
- Option 3 (Full-Service Solution): This option usually takes around 6-12 weeks based on the size of your firm, the core competencies you’re interested in, and how many applications are involved in your workflows.
The 10 LTC4 core competencies include: Working with Legal Documents, Managing Documents & Emails, Time Recording, Collaborating with Others, Client Relationship Management, Security Awareness, Visual Communications, Data and Reports, Hybrid Working, and Video Conferencing.
Legal Technology Core Competencies Certification Coalition (LTC4) is a globally recognized standard for legal technology proficiency, created in 2010 by a collaborative effort of legal training professionals, IT experts, and lawyers from the USA, Canada, and the UK. It was developed to address fundamental technology skills gaps that directly impact law firms’ productivity and profitability.
LTC4’s mission is to set the global standard for legal technology proficiency, working towards a future where all legal professionals can efficiently use technology and prove their competence in doing so.
We offer comprehensive support:
- Initial onboarding sessions for your team on using our materials/platform
- Regular check-ins and support calls during implementation
- Access to our help desk for technical issues
- Detailed admin guides and best practice documents
- Optional advanced training for in-depth use (additional fee may apply)
Our goal is to empower your team to manage the certification process confidently, with our support always available when needed.
LTC4 certification is designed for law firms, legal departments, and law schools, providing a framework for training and certification to prove technological competence to clients. These certifications are relevant for lawyers, paralegals, legal secretaries, IT professionals in law firms, and legal operations managers.
This certification addresses the growing importance of technological skills in the legal profession and provides a structured way for legal professionals to demonstrate their capabilities to clients and employers.
Download our free vendor-agnostic toolkit. Including a complete LMS integration checklist.
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