Microsoft Word for Legal Practitioners

Monica Korf

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Virtual Legal Online Services (Pty) Ltd
06 July 2020

Business communication & presentation; Word processing software; Enterprise software; Law for the lay person

Microsoft Word for Legal Practitioners is a practical, step-by-step guide created by a legal professional to help other legal professionals turbo-charge their work flow, improve content accuracy, automate routine tasks, and improve the level of professionalism when drafting, editing and reviewing legal documents.

This 272-page, full-colour manual will help you harness the incredible power Microsoft Word has to offer in your legal practice. It comes packed with screenshots, easy instructions, and a variety of tips and insights to help you make the most of Word in the fast-paced, pressurised, and technology driven legal environment in which you likely find yourself. Examples are specifically chosen to reflect the day-to-day word processing tasks performed in a legal practice.

You will gain an overview of functions used by legal practitioners and where to find them in Word; learn how to make drafting legal documents much easier and quicker; learn how to work effectively with formatting; learn how to automate many of the routine tasks you perform daily; learn how to review documents, track changes, and compare versions of a document; learn different methods of protecting your documents; learn how to create document templates so that you can standardise the formatting of documents throughout your practice; learn different methods of viewing documents; learn how to professionally draft your documents, manage multi-level numbered clauses, create an automatic table of contents, and seamlessly create accurate cross-references within your document; learn how to create macros to automate word processing tasks; learn how to create and auto-populate fields in your document with important details; learn a whole bunch of handy functions and time-saving tips and tricks that will dramatically speed up your workflow and legal document processing; and much more.

In a nutshell, Microsoft Word for Legal Practitioners will help you and your colleagues:

Save valuable time and free you up to take on more work. Automate repetitive formatting and document tasks. Eliminate many of the frustrations encountered when formatting documents. Create handy and professional templates for on-the-go legal documents. Produce consistently neat and professional documents, no matter who drafts them. Improve the accuracy of your documents and content. Populate standard legal documents with unique, client-specific information at the click of a button. Convey a strong, cohesive and professional legal brand.

By: Monica Korf
Imprint: Virtual Legal Online Services (Pty) Ltd
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9780620870436
ISBN 10: 0620870435
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 06 July 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Monica Korf (B.Comm LLB) founded the Virtual Lawyers group in 2013. She graduated cum laude in 1993 from the University of Pretoria and has been practising since as an Attorney, Conveyancer and Notary, with right of appearance in the High Court. Monica has more than 30 years' experience as a legal practitioner and relies on the myriad benefits of technology and software to run her busy, virtual practice, one of the first in South Africa. ]Monica is an admitted solicitor in the UK; has served as a member of the Cape Town Legal Practice Council's Wills, Trusts and Estate Committee; is a member of the Association of Arbitrators SA; is a graduate of the International Society of Arbitrators and Mediators - Private Commercial Arbitration; and served as an Examiner of the Cape Town Legal Practice Council. She lives out her passions for ballroom dancing and traveling through the use of this innovative, flexible virtual business model.

Reviews for Microsoft Word for Legal Practitioners

Drafting documents correctly and neatly are nowhere near as important than in the legal industry. I found this guide invaluable and have reserved a prime spot for it on my desk. Get your copy today - a compulsory read that will revolutionise your work! - Dr Ferdie Lochner (USB PhD)