Table of Authority - need advice ASAP!

[1st_time_buyer]

Hello,

If there is anybody here who can give me some info I would greatly appreciate it! I have a job interview in few days and I have to know what is Table of Contest and Table of Authority. I am applying for a General Litigation Legal Secretary. May be there is a website I can go to and read about it?
THANKS!

 

[badapple40]

Table of contents... is a listing of the contents inside a pleading.

Table of authority is a listing of the cases, statutes, or other authority relied upon in a legal pleading.

If you have to ask these questions, even if you get the job, I would not suspect you'll last long.

Then again... and this is a true story, when I transitioned back to private practice (only a few short months ago), I got assigned a secretary who had done only corporate work. I do about 95% litigation, and handed her a motion in a case and said "serve it on him via ordinary mail" and walked away. What I didn't realize is that she had no idea what service meant. She meekly appeared in my door about an hour later, asking what I meant by service. I explained it to her and moved on...

 

[seniorjudge]

Hello,

If there is anybody here who can give me some info I would greatly appreciate it! I have a job interview in few days and I have to know what is Table of Contest and Table of Authority. I am applying for a General Litigation Legal Secretary. May be there is a website I can go to and read about it?
THANKS!

I think you should tell them you had no idea what the terms meant but that you found the terms on the internet.

Then show them what you found on Google.

(I long for the good old days when WordPerfect built your ToAs and ToCs automatically!)

 

[You Are Guilty]

I think you should tell them you had no idea what the terms meant but that you found the terms on the internet.

Then show them what you found on Google.

(I long for the good old days when WordPerfect built your ToAs and ToCs automatically!)

Still does (as does Word).

(Can you tell I have crappy secretaries? )

 

[seniorjudge]

Still does (as does Word).

(Can you tell I have crappy secretaries? )

Okay, writer, remember all this (thanks to Bill Gates: from Word's help):

About creating a table of authorities]

The feature described in this Help topic is only available if support for English (U.S.), Canadian, French or Dutch is enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings.

A table of authorities is a list of the references in a legal document, such as to cases, statutes, and rules, along with the numbers of the pages the references appear on. To create a table of authorities, you mark citations and Microsoft Word inserts a special TA (Table of Authorities Entry) field in your document. You can then search the document for the next long or short citation to mark, or automatically mark each subsequent occurrence of the citation. If you don’t want to use the existing categories of citations, such as cases or statutes, then you can also change or add categories of citations.

When you build a table of authorities, Word searches for the marked citations, organizes them by category, references their page numbers, and displays the table of authorities in the document. For example, the field

{ TA \l "Baldwin v. Alberti, 58 Wn. 2d 243 (1961)" \s "Baldwin v. Alberti" \c 1 \b }

creates the following entry in the "Cases" category of a table of authorities:

Baldwin v. Alberti, 58 Wn. 2d 243 (1961) 5,6