Microsoft Word for Legal Professionals: Part Deux

About this session

Who it's for

Legal professionals who want to improve their Microsoft Word skills, automate repetitive tasks, and create more efficient, professional

What we cover

An advanced Microsoft Word on-demand session covering document automation, formatting, collaboration tools, and AI features

Why it matters

Learn practical techniques that save time, reduce formatting frustrations, improve document consistency, and help you get more

If you joined Jordan's first Microsoft Word session, you already know Word offers far more functionality than most legal professionals use every day. This on-demand session builds on those fundamentals by exploring the advanced features that transform everyday users into power users.

You'll learn how to manage complex legal documents with greater efficiency, automate repetitive drafting tasks, and create standardized workflows that improve consistency across your documents. The session also demonstrates how collaboration tools like Track Changes, comments, and document comparison can simplify teamwork, while highlighting how AI is being integrated into Microsoft Word to support attorneys throughout the drafting process.

Attorney Jordan Turk shares practical, real-world techniques you can immediately apply when working with pleadings, contracts, and other complex legal documents. By the end of the session, you'll have the knowledge to work faster, reduce manual effort, and make Microsoft Word a more powerful part of your legal workflow.

Key Learnings:

Use advanced styles, formatting, and document management tools for complex legal documents.
Automate repetitive drafting with Quick Parts, fields, and reusable building blocks.
Improve collaboration and productivity using Track Changes, document comparison, and AI features in Microsoft Word.

Featured presenter(s)

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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