On Tuesday, legal training platform AltaClaro announced that its group training feedback tool Benchmark360 has completed its pilot program and is now available to all of AltaClaro’s client base.

Benchmark360 was created to give participants more comprehensive feedback following the completion of AltaClaro’s group setting legal training, where law firm and AltaClaro instructors lead a team of law firm staff through various lessons.

Since AltaClaro’s inception in 2019, the company has provided in-person and online training materials for law firms such as Husch Blackwell, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Taft Stettinius & Hollister. Developed in partnership with client K&L Gates, AltaClaro unveiled a new generative artificial intelligence-focused course back in September.

What is it: Benchmark360 is a tool that extracts data from AltaClaro’s group training sessions to create individualized feedback for each participant and streamline an evaluation for law firm and AltaClaro instructors.

The tool is essentially a rubric based on the results of assignments completed by participating associates. "It gives the associate consistent objective feedback on their simulation assignments. So they identify where their gaps and strengths are," AltaClaro founder and CEO Abdi Shayesteh said.

He added, “We used to do it handmade, and now what we're doing is we're leveraging a platform we built at the first blush to look at the assignment and assess where the associate came out based on that rubric, but the instructors still review the submissions to then add to it or tweak it before it gets to the associates."

AltaClaro Benchmark360