Comments on: The Need for Certification http://www.slaw.ca/2009/12/06/the-need-for-certification/ Canada's online legal magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:12:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chere Estrin http://www.slaw.ca/2009/12/06/the-need-for-certification/comment-page-1/#comment-709118 Chere Estrin Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:40:23 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=14828#comment-709118 Thanks for the acknowledgement of The OLP. We are working ver hard on rolling out a professional vendor-neutral certification exam through a major organization that specializes in certifiation exam. We have a myriad of subject matter experts working on the project now The Organization of Legal Professionals (www.theolp.org) has been formed to raise standards in education through collaboration. Right now, we are concentrating on e-discovery rather than the entire field of litigation support. Too many "experts" are being hired today without the proper training and background. Too many mistakes are made as a result of lack of training. It is the goal of The OLP to develop a certification exam based on the core competencies of e-discovery. There are certain things that every person handling e-discovery should know. This exam will be the first of many. We will set levels of sophistication of the exam and we will issue specialty certifiations such as trial technician, etc. ALSP, on the other hand, appears to be developing certification for the litigation support field as a whole. The OLP is segmenting the areas into specialties. We had hoped to work together with the ALSP. However, for whatever reason, we cannot seem to attract their attention either through e-mails or phone calls to their administration nor through their LinkedIn group. No one returns an e-mail or phone call. If there is anyone out there who is a member who would like to talk with us, please contact me at chere.estrin@theolp.org. Thanks so much. Thanks for the acknowledgement of The OLP. We are working ver hard on rolling out a professional vendor-neutral certification exam through a major organization that specializes in certifiation exam. We have a myriad of subject matter experts working on the project now

The Organization of Legal Professionals (www.theolp.org) has been formed to raise standards in education through collaboration. Right now, we are concentrating on e-discovery rather than the entire field of litigation support.

Too many "experts" are being hired today without the proper training and background. Too many mistakes are made as a result of lack of training.

It is the goal of The OLP to develop a certification exam based on the core competencies of e-discovery. There are certain things that every person handling e-discovery should know. This exam will be the first of many. We will set levels of sophistication of the exam and we will issue specialty certifiations such as trial technician, etc.

ALSP, on the other hand, appears to be developing certification for the litigation support field as a whole. The OLP is segmenting the areas into specialties.

We had hoped to work together with the ALSP. However, for whatever reason, we cannot seem to attract their attention either through e-mails or phone calls to their administration nor through their LinkedIn group. No one returns an e-mail or phone call. If there is anyone out there who is a member who would like to talk with us, please contact me at chere.estrin@theolp.org.

Thanks so much.

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