Customizing Word for the Law Office, Security Issues, and Reviewing Documents
Presented by the CT Bar Institute
About the Program
Nearly everyone working in an office has some experience with Microsoft Word, but learning and mastering the program’s more advanced features and settings can markedly improve your productivity and greatly decrease the time it takes you to create and finalize documents.
During this four part series covering different elements of Word, Attorney Barron K. Henley will draw from his decades of experience in legal technology, sharing the vital skills needed to utilize the word processor to its fullest potential. He will teach how to optimize Word’s settings, take advantage of its keyboard shortcuts, eliminate document formatting difficulties, and more.
For each seminar, participants will also receive relevant portions of a written guide on Microsoft Word, developed by Attorney Henley’s firm. Join us for one or more of these seminars and develop the expertise of a Microsoft Word power user.
Part 1: Customizing Word for the Law Office, Security Issues, and Reviewing Documents
The first issue legal users of Microsoft Word will encounter is that its default settings aren’t suitable for the purposes of a law office. The first half of this seminar will teach you how to customize Word’s interface, formatting, and automations to ensure they’re assisting you, rather than complicating your tasks.
The second half of the seminar will address various features of word related to document security as well as editing and reviewing. It will cover important security and confidentiality procedures for ensuring that electronically shared documents meet the confidentiality requirements under the Rule of Professional Conduct 1.6, when to use .docx files vs .pdf files, how to propose edits and comments and apply them using the track changes feature, and how to directly compare the differences between two documents and merge them.
You Will Learn
- How to optimize Microsoft Word’s settings for legal work
- How to address security and confidentiality with word files
- The benefits and proper uses of .docx and .pdf files
- How to use track changes to review and edit documents
- How to compare and merge two documents
- About third party programs that extend Word’s functionality for tracking changes and comparing documents
Who Should Attend
Attorneys and legal professionals interested in harnessing the power of MS Word to enhance their practice.
Cost
(includes electronic materials)
Member $70
Student Member $30
Non-Member $140
Financial Hardship information is available upon request.
CT: 2.0 CLE Credits (General)
NY: 2.0 CLE Credits (LPM)
The Connecticut Bar Association/CT Bar Institute is an accredited provider of New York State CLE. This program qualifies for newly admitted and experienced attorneys CLE credits.
Attorneys seeking NY CLE credit who have been admitted to the New York State Bar for two years or less must attend the live seminar for skills or ethics credit, a fully interactive videoconference, or simultaneous transmission with synchronous interactivity. Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias CLE credits are only available as non-transitional credits. For further information please see the NYCourts.gov page on CLE: http://ww2.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle/index.shtml. Financial hardship information is available upon request.
If the seminar is recorded, all member registrants will receive complimentary access to the recording approximately six weeks after the program. Please note that refunds will not be granted once course materials have been sent. Cancellations made less than 2 business days prior to event are non-refundable.
Closed captioning will be available during the seminar presentation for virtual attendees