How do I create legal documents and pleadings?

Perhaps setup a template?

Hi,
you may find something here,
http://templates.services.openoffice.org/

Example
http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/864

I would be more than happy to create and share a template; how do I set up the template?

I did not find any ready made templates, but after a bit of trial and error I was able to set up header and tables which look reasonabley close to legalese. I did not figure a way to get numbering on the side of the page, as the numbering option seems to want to number each block of text, not each line indepentently. If I can figure out how to make this into a template I will upload to Ooo.

Thanks!

The home of OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/

Here the home of templates for OpenOffice http://templates.services.openoffice.org/

Here the official openoffice forum of OpenOffice: http://www.oooforum.org/

Here hoto make templates:

http://tutorialsforopenoffice.org/tutorial/Create_A_Template.html
http://www.openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2006/03/templates_makin.html
http://www.brainstorminc.com/openoffice.org-tips/tip-creating-openoffice.org-templates.html

Here other old ready made templates for openoffice http://smalldataproblem.org/ooextras/downloads/english/

Hope this helps

This is what you need for line numbering (as opposed to "numbered list" numbering):

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Writer_Guide/Line_numbering

Thankfully we're in a jurisdiction that doesn't require it, but this should get you going.

Also, tables can be your friends as far as captions, etc. We don't bother with headers and footers except for page numbering, but we aren't required to do much fancy there.

Also, if you ever need to create a Table of Authorities, the "Index" feature is the closest thing (insert the 'Index' up where you need the table, tag each citation as an index item, then go back and apply your underlining/italics/etc in the 'Index' after the document is finalized). Trying to use the "Bibliography" feature for this will give you conniptions.