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How To Set Up Pleading Templates in Arizona


Total Credits: 2 CLE

Average Rating:
   41
Categories:
Miscellaneous |  Law Practice Management & Technology |  Skills
Faculty:
Barron Henley
Format:
Audio and Video
Original Program Date:
Jan 12, 2024


Description

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!

Speaker:
Barron K. Henley, Affinity Consulting Group

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Barron Henley Related Seminars and Products


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.


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Overall:      4.7

Total Reviews: 41

Comments

Nicholas E

"Very informative"

Dawn W

"This is probably the most comprehensively helpful CLE I've ever attended."

Stuart G

"Very engaging presenter, made a difficult topic accessible."

Arthur S

"Barron Henley gave an excellent presentation! It was exactly what I hoped to learn!"

Joseph S

"Because he was excellent!!!"

Karen P

"I have attended multiple CLE's taught by Barron and learn something new every time. I also appreciate that he is so accessible for follow up email questions after the seminars are over."

Christian L

"Very informational and beneficial to drafting pleadings and dealing with the day to day headaches that microsoft word can give attorneys."

Theresa C

"He kept me interested and was very informative"

Shane H

"Started with a doc created just for us, and explained in detail how we can tweak it ourselves"

Shirley M

"I chose the "excellent" rating because the presenter and the materials were excellent! :)"