Flagship Legal Tech Institute CLE: MS Word for Legal Work

Due to popular demand, the Harris County Law Library Legal Tech Institute is proud to present its flagship hands-on training course tomorrow, August 30, at 2:00pm, in the dynamic setting of the County Attorney’s Office Conference Center. MS Word for Legal Work will be presented live by law librarians Elizabeth Bolles and Heather Holmes. Course participants will learn the ins and outs of America’s most popular word processing software. Key topics will include efile formatting, creating a tables of authorities, page and paragraph formatting, and protecting client data through simple metadata management. Each attendee will be provided a laptop for use during the class, and will receive personalized assistance. This session has been expanded so that law offices can send multiple attorneys and paralegals at once. Register through the Legal Tech Institute website.

Special Event: Expanded "MS Word for Legal Work" Hands-on Legal Tech Training

Join us as we offer our flagship hands-on training - MS Word for Legal Work - for an expanded audience on Thursday, Aug. 30, at 2pm. Learn the skills you need to draft documents more efficiently on the world's leading word processing software. Texas attorneys can earn 1.0 hour of CLE credit. Register today!

HCLawLibrary on Legal Tech Mastery Show!

Watch the Legal Tech Mastery Show on Friday, August 17, at 12:50 p.m. EST to see Harris County Law Library Deputy Director Joe Lawson talk about legal tech education and the Law Library's Legal Tech Institute! The show will be simulcast on YouTube and Facebook, and the recording will be available on the show website.

The Legal Tech Mastery Show is hosted by Litigation Support Guru Amy Bowser-Rollins and features content on a variety of legal tech topics. Now in Season 3, the show has covered lots of territory and you can find a great collection of practical training videos for free online. For example, some of our law librarians learned the-notoriously-difficult-to-use Word mail merge by watching Episode 11 of Season 2. Check it out today!

Earn 2.0 Hours of FREE CLE Credit at our LTI Double Header

Join us on Thursday, July 19 at 12 p.m. for a Westlaw Vendor Visit, presented by the Harris County Law Library's Legal Tech Institute. Sharpen your litigation research skills, and earn 1.0 free hour of CLE credit. For details and to register, visit the event listing in the LTI Course Catalog or click the button below.

Click here to register for the Westlaw Vendor Visit

Then, follow up your visit the to the Law Library by attending another free 1.0 hour CLE session at 2:00 p.m., also presented by the Legal Tech Institute: Free Legal Tech for Legal Professionals. This program will cover free legal apps and other no-fee tech solutions. The presenter will demonstrate the use of legal databases including Westlaw, Lexis, and O'Connor's Online, which are available on Law Library computers free of charge. Fastcase and Casemaker, two databases accessible to members of the Texas Bar, will also be covered. Join us!

Click here to register for Free Legal Tech for Legal Professionals.

Immigration Law Resource Month

During the month of July, print materials on all aspects of immigration law will be on display throughout the Law Library. Treatises such as Kurzban’s Immigration Law Sourcebook and a number of CLE coursebooks from TexasBarCLE will be featured. You’ll also find immigration law resources in the Law Library’s digital collection, including official immigration forms through Westlaw and the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal on HeinOnline.