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Some of Pennsylvania's best lawyers, judges, and law professors serve as volunteers to plan and teach our programs, and write our books. They are chosen for their professional expertise and their writing and teaching ability.

If You Are a Course Planner or Faculty Member

"Presenting Excellence" is our booklet with:

• Course planner guidelines
• Authors' checklist
• PBI course manual guidelines
• Effective PowerPoint tips
• Successful presentation tips

Forms:

• A/V request form
• Biographical Sketch
• Expense Voucher
• Release form

Updated Bio?

On our website we publish the biographies of faculty members who teach our online courses. These are drawn from the course book for the program that was recorded and used as an online course.

If the bio that appears on our website is out of date, please send an email to webmaster@pbi.org, and attach the latest version. PLEASE NOTE: We cannot publish long bios such as may appear on your firm website. The simplest approach is to copy the bio that is on our website, paste it into an email message, and make the necessary changes. Otherwise, we will edit a long bio to include the most salient information.

How to get course materials to your staff team (without worrying about email size limitations, spam filters etc.):

We have a special web page for this purpose. It's what's called an FTP site, and very easy to use. (Note: These instructions currently work for Internet Explorer. Instructions for other browsers will be added soon.)

• First, RENAME the file(s) you want to give us. (You probably have it named PBI. That's what many of our faculty name their files while they are working on them. We need you to rename it so that we can distinguish it from all the others.)
  
  • Name your file with your last name, followed by a shorthand version of your topic.
    
  • If you are submitting more than one file, include numbers so we know the order they should go in the book.
    
  • For instance:
    
    • Smith 1 HowtoDraftComplaint
      
    • Smith 2 SampleComplaint
      
    • Smith 3 Slides
      
• Contact the course team you are working with and request the address of the PBI ftp site.
• Type or Copy & Paste the address into the Internet Explorer address bar.
  
• Open the “Course Materials” folder on that page.
  
• Find the folder for the staff member that needs the materials.
  
• Open that folder.
  
• Copy and paste the file(s) to this folder. This is called "uploading."
  
• Send an email to the staff member to let them know you uploaded your materials.
  
• If you have any problems, please contact PBI at 800-932-4637.
  

Hotel Information:

For your convenience and to help with your travel to your program site, click here for a PDF listing of names, addresses, phone numbers and websites for hotels used for PBI faculty.

Course Locations:

Click here for a PDF listing of program sites. To get directions to a specific site, we recommend using Google Maps and the address provided in this PDF.

If You Would Like to Volunteer

If you have not taught or written for us before, and are interested in doing so, please send a resume and cover letter to

Richard L. McCoy, Esq.
Curriculum Director

You can also send email to Dick McCoy.

If you have a manuscript or an idea for a book, send a resume, cover letter, and outline to:

Pamela Davies Smith, Esq.
Publications Director

You can also send email to Pam Smith.

Our address is:

Pennsylvania Bar Institute
5080 Ritter Road
Mechanicsburg PA 17055-6903

Click here for a listing of our course production staff by individual work group.