Dorsey U, the Firm's professional development service delivers over 600 hours of internal training annually to our lawyers, our staff and our clients, including:

• Five days of New Lawyer Training to help incoming lawyers hit the ground running.
• Core Substantive and Skills Training to pass on the building blocks of professional excellence.
• Up-to-the-Minute Training on new developments to keep our lawyers on the forefront of practice.
• Programs aimed at enriching our professional lives, promoting our health, and welfare and supporting career development and satisfaction, work-life balance and diversity.

Dorsey U programs are taught by our own lawyers and the best in outside instructors. We train in our state-of-the-art conference room facilities with technology links to all offices. Programs are digitally recorded, providing a ready archive of just-in-time training.

Dorsey U is an accredited continuing legal education provider in New York and California and an accredited continuing professional development provider in the United Kingdom. Eligible programs are also regularly accredited in Minnesota, Washington, Iowa, Utah and other key states. To supplement Dorsey U, we encourage our lawyers to attend and teach at the best in external CLE programs, both locally and nationally, through tuition and travel reimbursement.

"The goals of professional development are at the heart of this firm's core values of excellence, unity, professionalism, community and investment in the future.  We seek to achieve and maintain cutting-edge professional excellence in all areas of practice throughout the firm and to promote a culture and community of continual teaching and learning to perpetuate that excellence."

 - Bryn Vaaler, Partner & Director of Professional Development