AltaClaro Wins 2025 ALM LegalWeek Leaders in Tech Law Award for Best Tech Training Provider

AltaClaro Wins 2025 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Award for Best Tech Training Provider

Recognition Highlights Benchmark360, a Groundbreaking Personalized Training Tool for Lawyers

New York, New York – March 25, 2025 – AltaClaro is proud to announce that it has been awarded Best Tech Training Provider in the prestigious 2025 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Award.The fifth annual awards program honors individuals and organizations at the forefront of legal innovation.This recognition is a testament to AltaClaro's commitment to innovation in legal training, particularly for its groundbreaking personalized training and assessment tool, Benchmark360.

Benchmark360 empowers law firms by providing associates with direct, personalized feedback on simulated assignments that enhances mentoring, internal training programs, work allocation, and hiring decisions. The Best Tech Training Provider award validates AltaClaro’s commitment to a personalized and data-driven approach to legal training. The company believes in deliberate practice and immediate, objective feedback – a framework used by the best professional athletes and artists – and is bringing it to the legal profession.

“Seven years ago, AltaClaro's Co-Founder, Jeremy Liles, and I attended LegalWeek as a fledgling startup, sharing our vision of simulation-based learning. We would pitch to anyone who would listen to our vision. To now be honored as the leading innovative company for the best tech training program among industry giants feels surreal,” said Abdi Shayesteh, CEO & Co-Founder of AltaClaro. “AltaClaro pioneered the online simulation-based training approach for lawyers, and today, the company believes that simulation plus immediate, data-driven feedback is the gold standard.” 

Feedback is crucial, yet often inconsistent within firms. Benchmark360 addresses this by providing objective, standardized feedback, eliminating unconscious bias. It also helps associates take ownership of their professional development.

Jeremy Liles, Co-Founder of AltaClaro, added, "We’ve always believed that providing lawyers with the same level of personalized feedback that the best professional athletes and artists receive would revolutionize legal training. This award confirms that vision and inspires us to keep pushing the boundaries. Being recognized as the Best Tech Training company is a testament to the hard work and dedication of the entire AltaClaro team, who strive to elevate professional performance for legal professionals. We are also deeply grateful to our innovative clients who trusted us early on. Their willingness to innovate is key to our shared success."

The Best Tech Training category recognizes legal technology companies or alternative legal service providers that offer tools or services to help organizations achieve their workforce or professional development goals. The selection process  was rigorous, involving a two-tier panel of leading journalists and industry leaders, as well as client testimonials from top Am Law 200 firms.

About Benchmark360:

Benchmark360 combines AI and human insight to provide law firm associates with personalized feedback on simulated legal assignment submissions and law firms with the data needed to optimize internal mentoring and training programs. Just as pilots receive feedback on flight simulations, Benchmark360 provides data-driven feedback on simulated legal assignments, allowing associates to address skill gaps early in their careers. Like athletic trainers using performance data, Benchmark360 offers insights to law firm partners and mentors to identify where to focus their time.

Key Benefits of Benchmark360:

• Empowers associates to quickly identify strengths and weaknesses.
• Provides a standardized assessment rubric, addressing the challenge of inconsistent partner feedback.
• Offers feedback at scale, accelerating associate development.
• Provides a fair, objective resource for professional development discussions.

How Benchmark360 Works:

• Combines AltaClaro's proprietary AI-powered assessment engine with highly vetted practitioner instructors.
• Utilizes an expert-created, structured, proprietary grading rubric to ensure objectivity.
• Assesses core competency themes such as attention to detail, client-needs analysis, and drafting techniques using an objective point system.

About AltaClaro:

AltaClaro is the leading experiential legal training platform, offering simulation-based courses legal professionals love and training insights law firms and departments need. With more than 60 courses across practice areas such as M&A, Corporate, Capital Markets, Lending, Real Estate, Technology Transactions, Emerging Growth/Venture Transactions, Litigation, Legal Writing and Generative AI, AltaClaro is helping legal professionals hit the ground running and helping law firms and legal departments train their teams at scale. For more information visit www.altaclaro.com 

Contact: 

Jessi Adler at Plat4orm: jessi@plat4orm.com 

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