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How To Set Up Pleading Templates in Arizona
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How To Set Up Arizona Pleading Templates in Microsoft Word: Ariz. R. Civ. P. 5.2 lays out formatting requirements for pleadings that are frankly difficult to implement in a Microsoft Word document (or any word processor, for that matter). Setting up the left margin line numbers is complicated, and getting the text of your pleading to line up with those numbers is even more difficult. The formatting requirements present other challenges regarding margins, font, point size, and the maximum number of lines per page. In this class, you will be provided with a perfectly constructed Arizona pleading template in Microsoft Word. You will then learn how to customize it for your purposes (easily switch fonts, point sizes, paragraph alignment, etc.). This discussion necessarily involves an explanation of Word’s “styles” feature which is Word’s most powerful and simultaneously perplexing function. However, understanding styles better will allow you to more easily control the formatting in any Word document (not just a pleading template). If you find drafting pleadings in Word to be frustrating, then this is your class!
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Barron K. Henley, Affinity Consulting Group
Barron Henley
Barron Henley is one of the founding partners of Affinity Consulting Group, a national legal technology consulting firm which handles all aspects of law practice automation including document assembly, case management, document management, legal accounting software, trial presentation/litigation support, paper reduction/scanning, hardware, networks/servers and security. He is an attorney and has been helping other lawyers with technology since 1990.
He received his B.S./B.A. (marketing and economics) and J.D. from The Ohio State University and is a member of the American, Ohio and Columbus Bar Associations, and the Worthington Estate Planning Council. He is a member of the ABA Law Practice Management Section and is the former Chair of the Ohio State Bar Association Law Office Automation & Technology Committee. Mr. Henley heads Affinity's document assembly/automation and software training departments; he is a renowned expert on Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat and HotDocs document assembly software; and has authored legal-specific manuals on HotDocs, Adobe Acrobat, and Microsoft Word, Excel & Outlook.
Barron teaches continuing legal education (CLE) classes throughout the U.S. and Canada covering a wide variety of topics related to law practice management, technology and ethics.
He received his B.S./B.A. (marketing and economics) and J.D. from The Ohio State University and is a member of the American, Ohio and Columbus Bar Associations, and the Worthington Estate Planning Council. He is a member of the ABA Law Practice Management Section and is the former Chair of the Ohio State Bar Association Law Office Automation & Technology Committee. Mr. Henley heads Affinity's document assembly/automation and software training departments; he is a renowned expert on Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat and HotDocs document assembly software; and has authored legal-specific manuals on HotDocs, Adobe Acrobat, and Microsoft Word, Excel & Outlook.
Barron teaches continuing legal education (CLE) classes throughout the U.S. and Canada covering a wide variety of topics related to law practice management, technology and ethics.
