by Sid Soil
Mastering Microsoft Word will take your legal firm a long way toward efficient document creation. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the ways technology can help your legal practice. Here are four tools your small firm can use to simplify processes, break out of the hourly billing trap, and improve both client service and your bottom line.
...Carol wanted an automatically-updating Table of Contents in her document. But she couldn’t use Styles (the preferred and easiest method) to populate it because of some formatting issues. I showed her how to use TC fields to get around those limitations, and now I’ll show you (with step-by-step video).
...The one thing Microsoft Word’s notoriously WON’T do is a Points & Authorities format for a Table of Authorities. Or will it? We’ll explore in detail one Legal Office Guru reader’s creative solution to this problem and offer a sample file for you to practice her technique yourself.
...Reader Sarah asked how she could cross reference a related interrogatory within a subsequent request for production. It’s easy: use a cross-reference field! In this tutorial, I show you two ways to set up your paragraphs to make cross-referencing easy (and this ISN’T just a litigation trick!).
...Most law firm training is pretty ineffective. But why? Here are the erroneous beliefs that drive ineffective training, and what you can do about them.
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