Mastering Microsoft Word: Tips and Tricks for Legal Professionals

About this session

Who it's for

Any legal professional who uses Microsoft Word

What we cover

Learn hidden uses of the toolbar, how to create templates, and quickly remove metadata

Why it matters

Get the most out of your technology and get time back in your day

Does formatting a document in Microsoft Word make you frustrated on a daily basis? Do you struggle with removing metadata from legal briefs? Are you looking for ways to safeguard your meticulously crafted drafts from unwanted alterations? Join attorney Jordan Turk, Legal Technology Advisor at Smokeball, and Adriana Linares, legal technology consultant at LawTech Partners to learn how to stop using Word merely as a glorified typewriter. Discover how you can enable shortcuts to save time, quickly format documents, prevent clients from tampering with text, and utilize Word’s template features with legal technology.

In this free on-demand webinar, you'll learn:

Proper document formatting techniques and customization of Word's default features
How to leverage document templates to enhance productivity
Techniques to secure your documents and remove sensitive metadata

Featured presenter(s)

Adriana Linares

Legal Technology Consultant at LawTech Partners

Jordan Turk

Attorney and Director of Education & Attorney Development at Smokeball

Jordan is a practicing attorney in Texas, and the Director of Attorney Education and Development at Smokeball. Her family law expertise includes complex property division and contentious custody cases, as well as appeals and prenuptial agreements. In addition to her family law practice, she’s passionate about legal technology and how it can revolutionize law firms.

Jordan graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Classics, History, and Religious Studies and then went on to attend the University of Arkansas School of Law to earn her J.D. After almost four years of practice with a high-asset family law firm in Houston (and after being frustrated at the lack of automation in her firm), she discovered the world of legal technology which ultimately brought her to Smokeball.

In Hacking Law Firm Success with Jordan Turk, she interviews law firm founders about how they grew and scaled their practices, as well as their ethos behind managing a firm.

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