How to create a Table of Authorities in a legal brief

How lawyers can use Microsoft Word to mark citations and create a Table of Authorities in briefs and motions.

In this video, Ryan McCarl of Rushing McCarl LLP — author of Elegant Legal Writing and former Advanced Legal Writing instructor at the UCLA School of Law — shows lawyers how to mark citations and create Tables of Authorities in Microsoft Word. The video also contains various other productivity tips about how to set up keyboard shortcuts, how field codes work, how to move your cursor quickly with your keyboard, how to change AutoFormat rules, etc.

You may also be interested in McCarl’s video “Advanced Microsoft Word for Lawyers.”

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Ryan McCarl (LinkedIn | Elegant Legal Writing) is a founding partner of Rushing McCarl LLP, a California business law firm.