Interview With Kelly Lake, Executive Director of Continuing Education of the Bar (ceb)
| Publication year | 2017 |
| Author | By Glenn E. Von Tersch, Esq.* |
By Glenn E. Von Tersch, Esq.*
Kelly Lake is the Executive Director of CEB (Continuing Education of the Bar), which is the leading source for legal education and legal research solutions for California lawyers. She is a strategic business leader with extensive experience in the publishing and information sector. Prior to joining CEB, Ms. Lake held key positions with Thomson Reuters in the United Kingdom (UK) and Asia, working to deliver a variety of legal workflow solutions and practice tools. Ms. Lake also has a decade of experience building local instances of the flagship Westlaw brand in the UK, China, and India. Ms. Lake can be reached at Kelly.Lake@ceb.ucla.edu.
In an effort to reach our Solo and Small Firm Section members, the PRACTITIONER sat down with Executive Director Kelly Lake to talk about Continuing Education of the Bar, or CEB, as many members know it. The interview that follows has been edited for length and clarity.
Q. HOW DOES CEB RELATE TO SOLO AND SMALL FIRM PRACTITIONERS?
A. Solo and small firm practitioners represent our core customer base. We want to reach out to this Section as part of an overall effort to engage with members of the Bar who regularly use and contribute to CEB products. CEB turns seventy next year and we are looking to our customers, through their feedback, to guide our decisions on future products.
Q. YOU MENTIONED THE SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY; WHAT IS CEB PLANNING IN RELATION TO THAT?
A. CEB was founded as a service to provide legal education to returning World War II veterans. Now, we are seeking to revitalize the organization to meet the emerging and increasingly technology-driven needs of California attorneys. We believe that as a self-sustaining nonprofit program of the University of California we have a duty to continue anticipating and meeting the practice and education-related needs of the members of the California Bar.
Q. YOU ALSO MENTIONED CEB'S NONPROFIT STATUS; DOES THAT IMPACT YOUR APPROACH?
A. Absolutely. CEB aims to provide affordable, practical guides and education for all members of the Bar. We are placing greater emphasis on our public service mission by offering free resources to support attorneys' pro bono efforts and are increasing our sponsorship of access-to-justice associations.
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