Legal Executives and support staff are often forced to learn skills in Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Excel with little, if any formal training. This session, tailored for legal executives and support staff, delivers what you need to hit the road running and gives a valuable update for those with experience in these areas.
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
*Original Content was created in July 2022
Chair
Tanya Burns, Practice Manager, Nicholas O’Donohue & Co
Professional Skills
Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Excel: Practical Skills for Legal Executives and Support Staff
This practical skills session will address some of the common traps and provide many helpful tips for legal executives and support staff when they are working with Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel spreadsheets.
Presented by Jill Simpson, Practice Manager and Rebecca Pyers, Personal Assistant, Heinz Law
Presenters
Tanya Burns, Practice Manager, Nicholas O'Donohue & Co.
Tanya has over 25 years’ experience in legal business management and has worked in law firms since 1977. Tanya takes a holistic approach to management with a keen focus on achieving best outcomes for our people and our clients. She completed her Masters of Administration (Distinction) at RMIT in 2014. Tanya is a member of ALPMA (Australasian Legal Practice Management Association) and sits on the Victorian Branch Committee (Treasurer) and the Governance Committee. She is a co-convener of the Small Firms Management Group and enjoys contributing to the peak organisation for Legal Practice Management. Tanya is a keen traveller (pre-Covid) and enjoys spending time with good friends and her dog. She also loves watching her AFL team win (and lose) at the MCG.
Rebecca Pyers, Personal Assistant, Heinz Law
Bec is a personal assistant to the managing director at Heinz Law, a large regional practice based in Ballarat. Starting her career as a junior admin in a metropolitan firm in Melbourne, Bec learned many of the essential skills required to make the flow of work from her desk run smoothly. After being promoted to a support role in the Commercial department in her former workplace, and continuing in this area of practice at her current employer, Bec has been working in administration support in the law industry for just on 20 years. Between supporting two directors, a senior associate and a trainee in her role in Melbourne before switching to sole support in her current role, she has been able to draw on her years of experience to help both colleagues and professional staff. Recognising that being able to format, use shortcuts and make the most of the automations available for use in Word is a skill not necessarily “taught” anymore, she is always keen to help expand the knowledge network of assistants to improve their job satisfaction and skillset.
