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ABA Techshow

March 29, 2016 Heather Holmes

If you’re a lawyer or other legal professional who uses email, cloud storage, or a mobile device to more efficiently run your practice, the ABA TECHSHOW® is for you. This annual conference, presented by the ABA Law Practice Division, is a unique event where lawyers and other legal professionals come together to “talk tech.”

Take a look at the conference brochure and peruse the offerings. If a particular session catches your attention, visit the Legal Talk Network website, where more than a dozen episodes of the Special Reports podcast have been posted. These 7-minute recordings feature interviews with the presenters, giving you a taste of the ABA TECHSHOW experience. A recording of the keynote presentation is also available.

Next year’s conference promises to be just as rich and substantive as this year’s event, so perhaps a springtime trip to Chicago for ABA TECHSHOW 2017 will be in your future . As registration information becomes available, we’ll keep you posted. 

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Using Styles to Format Appellate Briefs

March 22, 2016 Heather Holmes

According to the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, briefs must follow very specific formatting conventions. Spelled out in Rule 38, these conventions ensure that all appellate briefs are consistently uniform in appearance, organization, and theme. Meeting these specifications fulfills the requirements of the court, conveying not only compliance with court rules but professionalism and credibility.

Formatting can be a time consuming and sometimes frustrating process, but drafting documents in Microsoft Word, taking full advantage of its built-in tools, simplifies the process considerably.  The Styles feature, which is often overlooked by even the most proficient MS Word users, is one such time-saving tool.

A Style is a collection of formatting instructions, applied consistently throughout a document to standardize the font, titles, spacing, paragraphs, headings, and sections. Using Styles to create a document template, you can cleanly and properly format your briefs, substantially transforming the draft-writing process to one of ease and efficiency. Due to the cascading effect of Styles, any one title or heading is formatted just like all of its kind. Therefore, one minor change in some basic feature of the text, particularly one that repeats throughout your brief, is no longer a source of aggravation and wasted effort. And Styles are an excellent remedy for the frustration of formatting your tables of contents and tables of authorities as well. For a useful resource guide, see Georgetown Law School's Styles, Tables of Contents, and Tables of Authorities in Microsoft Word 2010. 

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What’s behind the name? “Ex Libris Juris” is Latin for “from the books of law” and much of the information here will relate to the legal information collected and curated by the Law Library. Additionally, “Ex Libris” has long appeared on bookplates – labels appearing inside the front cover of books – and has acquired the connoted meaning “from the library of” to show ownership of the book. Using this connotation, the phrase becomes “from the library of law” and better describes the posts about digital resources, event announcements, and research tips that will regularly appear here.

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