Forms have numerous applications in the legal world. They’re used to collect standard information, often as part of a client intake process. They’re used to simplify routine drafting tasks, like the preparation of a basic will. They’re used within organizations to ensure that standard contract forms are used. In short, forms are used to save time, which in many cases …
Read More »Paperless in 12 Steps
Too many excuses are made for a law firm’s inertia toward a paperless or just “less paper”-ridden office. The reason? Most often, “We aren’t sure where to start”. Well here’s a simple plan to help get the mountain moving. Make a paperless plan. But don’t call it that. If you’re leading the cause and the cause involves lawyers, don’t utter …
Read More »Adobe Acrobat X Pro: Redaction Tutorial
In the past, redaction could be a tedious (and expensive) nightmare. Lengthy copies of documents would have to be printer, carefully examined word-for-word, and redacted manually with a thick black marker. With Adobe Acrobat X Pro, you can quickly redact documents using a variety of built-in tools. In this tutorial, we address: Using search-and-redact to easily locate sensitive information throughout …
Read More »Adobe Acrobat X Pro: PDF Editing Tutorial
In this second video in our series of Adobe Acrobat X Pro tutorials, we address an all-too-common problem: you need to make a few minor changes to a PDF, but the original document isn’t available. So how do you make changes directly to the PDF? We demonstrate how to: Add text directly while preserving word wrapping. Add text as an …
Read More »Adobe Acrobat X Pro: PDF Basics Tutorial
Acrobat Pro is an essential tool for many lawyers, used for everything from basic document viewing to redaction to client in-take forms. In this first video in our series of Acrobat X Pro tutorials, we demonstrate how to convert documents to PDF, apply OCR (Optical Character Recognition), and make basic changes by adding, removing, and rearranging pages within a PDF.
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