“Effectiveness Project Team Document Competency: What Every Legal Professional Should Know for Effective & Efficient Drafting in Microsoft Word – A Discussion of Document-Creation Workflows and Best Practices Guide – For legal professionals, the documents we create are the lasting evidence of the advice and counsel we give. Our documents represent our substantive skill and reflect the quality of our thinking. Through documents, we deliver our arguments and advice. With digital deliverables and readers who consume our documents electronically, that quality must also include the attributes which enable navigation and online review. Therefore, the technical creation and presentation of documents carries as much weight as the substance that went into them.Because of the weight of documents and the expectation that everything in the legal profession will be difficult and time-consuming, we have no judgment for when we’re over-working a matter or for when we’re struggling with a task that could be done in a better, more efficient way and lead to better results. We hope to influence and define the work valued in the legal ecosystem; encourage legal professionals to seek resources that will help them accomplish document-creation tasks with the right time-to-value ratio; and empower clients to ask for more in the delivery of legal services…” [h/t LawSites]

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