Total Credits: 1.4 Self Study
Originally presented at our Solo & Small Firm Conference, June 9-11, 2021
One of the most difficult technical tasks one can undertake is formatting a complex brief in Microsoft Word that has a title page, table of contents, table of authorities, multi-level paragraph numbering, and page numbering that starts over in the middle of the document and switches formats (for example, Romanettes to Arabic). In this class, you’ll receive a finely tuned 8th Circuit US Court of Appeals brief template (in Microsoft Word), and you’ll learn how to use it, customize it to your purposes, automatically generate/update a table of contents and table of authorities, and control formatting within the document no matter where you copied and pasted it from. The heavy lifting is already done, and if you use this template as the starting point for your next brief, you’ll shave many hours off the process because the formatting will just work. Of course, we’ll also explain how the template was constructed so you can use the techniques in your other documents.
Speaker: Barron K. Henley, Esq., Partner, Affinity Consulting Group, Columbus, OH
Note: This material qualifies for self-study credit only. Pursuant to Regulation 15.04.5, a lawyer may receive up to six hours of self-study credit in a reporting year. Self-study programs do not qualify for GAL Certification, ethics, elimination of bias or Kansas credit.
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Barron K. Henley, Esq. is one of the founding partners of Affinity Consulting Group, a legal technology consulting firm focused on automating and streamlining law firms and legal departments. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Juris Doctor degrees from The Ohio State University and is a member of the American, Ohio and Columbus Bar Associations. Mr. Henley is Affinity’s Director of Education and Professional Development; and teaches classes for law firms, legal departments, and CLE providers throughout the U.S. and Canada covering a wide variety of topics related to law practice management, legal tech, and ethics. He is a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a member of Ohio Supreme Court Commission on Technology and the Courts, a member of both the ABA Law Practice Management and the Real Property Trust and Estate Law Sections, a Planning Board Member for the ABA TECHSHOW (5th year), and a Director on the Columbus Bar Services Board.
