DALLAS — May 2, 2025 — BARBRI, a global leader in legal education, today announced the launch of its BARBRI Professional Education Advisory Board, a pioneering initiative dedicated to shaping the future of legal skills training for lawyers and legal professionals. Led by a renowned team of industry experts, this initiative will anticipate and address emerging challenges in legal education, equipping professionals and the people tasked with providing the resources to develop their careers with access to essential skills for the modern legal environment.

The traditional apprenticeship model in law firms is rapidly failing to meet the needs of modern associates, as inadequate and outdated training methods leave young lawyers underprepared, dissatisfied, and disengaged, highlighting an urgent need for firms to adopt structured, tech-savvy, and intentional development programs to retain talent and ensure long-term success.

Nearly six months ago, we announced that SkillBurst had been acquired by BARBRI. Since then, many of you have asked, "Why BARBRI? Isn't BARBRI focused on preparing law students for the bar exam?"

Law firms have always found it challenging to deliver value-added professional development for lawyers that they actually use.

Since our inception, SkillBurst has worked to solve the first issue by developing digital legal professional development courses that deliver brief, interactive training modules law firms can seamlessly customize to fit their needs.

And now, we’re streamlining the process of deciding what courses to offer or take (and in what order).

As summer associate season gears up and a new class of first-year associates prepares to enter law firm life in the fall, legal professional development is more important than ever, and it’s time to start thinking about how to set these young lawyers up for success, for their individual practices and as part of the larger firm.