PLG207 - Assignment Using Microsoft Word or Mac Word in the Legal Community

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1 Assignment: Using Microsoft Word or Mac Word in the Legal Community XXXXXX Eastern Gateway Community College PLG207: Law Office Technology Professor Arelene Nichols  August 27, 2023
2 What are the reasons that Deputy Director Lawson offers for the ABA’s insistence on the utilization of Microsoft Word for word processing software for lawyers and the legal community as compared to other software such as Pages or Google Docs? The reason that Deputy Director Lawson offers for the ABA’s insistence on the utilization of Microsoft Word for word processing software for lawyers and the legal community is due to Microsoft Word is the leading word processor software in business and the legal community. Lawson states, Microsoft Word has many powerful tools for drafting, document assembly, collaborating, and cloud computing. Microsoft 365 has built-in features like encrypting and other security measures that all attorneys must implement for client confidentiality. ( Legal Tech Institute CLE - Microsoft Word for Lawyers and Other Law Types , 2016). What ethical reasons does Lawson offer to legitimize the importance of additional education to better understand Microsoft Word? T he ethical reasons that Lawson offers to legitimize the importance of additional education to better understand Microsoft Word is due to the comment on the ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.1 which is the competency rule that states, attorneys must be up to date with all new technology that influences their legal practice and their clients. Additionally, Lawson states that the marketplace is changing and discusses the legal audit by Casey Flaherty, in-house counsel for Kia Motors. Kia Motors before hiring a firm for legal matters required a tech audit, which all the firms failed, and no firm passed until a year after the initial audit. ( Legal Tech Institute CLE - Microsoft Word for Lawyers and Other Law Types , 2016).
3 How do Word documents impact PDF documents in the legal workplace according to Lawson? According to Lawson Word documents impact PDF documents in the legal workplace because of the necessity to manipulate documents and the ability to convert a Microsoft Word document into a PDF document. The Texas Rules of Civil Procedure now require e-filing for all civil cases and standards require that Word documents be directly converted into PDF documents. ( Legal Tech Institute CLE - Microsoft Word for Lawyers and Other Law Types , 2016). What tips are offered concerning hyperlinks and how as a Paralegal do you think you’d use hyperlinks in your day-to-day legal writing? Lawson offered tips on how to identify and use hyperlinks in a Word document for webpages, emails, or a link to a local file or bookmark. He also indicates that by setting up hyperlinks manually instead of using auto hyperlinks you can be sure to get the entire link. ( Legal Tech Institute CLE - Microsoft Word for Lawyers and Other Law Types , 2016). As a paralegal, hyperlinks can be used in your day-to-day legal writing for a quick link to your email address, citations, outside sources, and direct links to local files. ( Legal Tech Institute CLE - Microsoft Word for Lawyers and Other Law Types , 2016). What are bookmarks and how do you think you’d use bookmarks in your day-to-day legal writing? Bookmarks are internal links within a document itself. In day-to-day legal writing, bookmarks can be used to quickly jump to a specific page or location on a page. ( Legal Tech Institute CLE - Microsoft Word for Lawyers and Other Law Types , 2016).
4 The symbol for section (§) is used daily in legal writing when referencing a statute. For example, Ohio Revised Code §3105.09 is a domestic relations section in Title 31 of the Ohio Revised Code. How do you type this character into your legal writing? The symbol for section (§) can be added to your legal writing by using the hotkey alt+21 or by going to the insert tab and selecting the symbols button and the frequently used symbols table will then open. If the section (§) symbol is not on the frequently used symbols table, then click "more symbols" and it will open the entire symbol table where you will scroll to find the section (§) symbol. Once you have located the section (§) symbol, select the symbol, and then click insert. ( Legal Tech Institute CLE - Microsoft Word for Lawyers and Other Law Types , 2016). How can changing styles in a Word document benefit the writer of a legal document? The benefit to the writer of a legal document to changing styles is it saves a tremendous amount of time. The legal writer can automatically change the font, font size, and typeface by bolding, italicizing, and centering titles by using change styles. If you designate headings, then you can change the styles all at once in large briefs. ( Legal Tech Institute CLE - Microsoft Word for Lawyers and Other Law Types , 2016). How is using headings in a Word document beneficial to the legal writer? Using headings in a Word document is beneficial to the legal writer to help properly organize and make it easier to find specific information within the legal document. As previously stated, the designated headings can easily be changed by using change styles all at once in large briefs. ( Legal Tech Institute CLE - Microsoft Word for Lawyers and Other Law Types , 2016).
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