My honest recommendation would be to run, run as fast as you can from using Word in a law office. We could talk for hours about this. You not only have to deal with the fact that Microsoft won't customize its product for a law office environment, you also have to deal with learning a new way to solve problems. I'm still puzzling over headers and section breaks. I know how to do them in Word, but I don't konw why they do them that way.
Page numbering is another puzzler.
The new legal features in 97 are good, but in my opinion, not good enough. I use Word because I must. I've taken all the advanced Word classes I can, but they certainly don't help you support the product. But you will have to get used to using Styles. But even the least sophisticated users I've trained over the last dozen years wouldn't give it up for anything.