Bates-stamping is incredibly useful for legal professionals. If you own the Professional version of Acrobat you can easily stamp a PDF document (or a batch of PDFs) with text, or sequential numbers. I put together a handy PDF guide that contains the step-by-step instructions for how to do this.
The guide won’t help for [...]
Question: Under what circumstances would you find it useful to do a PDF split by bookmarks as described in your most recent PDF for Lawyers post?
Answer:
The splitting feature is useful when you have one PDF that contains lots of individual documents. I often create such PDFs on purpose, because it’s easier to scan a batch of [...]
Apple’s new Lion operating system has one amazing feature for those who yearn to create and use digital signatures. The free Preview program now makes it possible to create a perfect digital signature using nothing more than your iSight camera, a pen and a piece of paper. Here is a link to a [...]
Question: If I have a closed file and the entire file has been scanned on my server, do I have to notify the client if I am going to destroy some of the paper file (not medical records, depo transcripts, original discovery)? My intention is to box up a mini version of each paper file [...]
Remember when Dell was a powerhouse computer company? When people talked about what made Dell special it wasn’t so much the computers they made, but how they shipped them so quickly and yet made them so cheaply.
They did this using a system called just in time inventory management. The idea was to order [...]
Lately, attorneys at our live seminars have been asking about Dragon Dictation software; they want to know if we think this is worth considering. The short answer is: yes.
Nuance, the company that creates the Dragon Dictation software, now has versions for both the PC and Mac. The PC version is more mature, and that’s the [...]
Do you know the quick way to scroll long web pages in your browser? If you hit the SPACEBAR your browser will advance by one screen. To move up by one screen hold the SHIFT key while you hit your SPACEBAR. Try it!
Sadly, we still live in a world where people insist on sending and receiving faxes. So when you are forced to use this dying technology it’s best to use a web-based fax system. (If you have a traditional fax machine that uses a telephone line, take it out back and smash it with a baseball [...]
If you have a reliable system for keeping track of your tasks and appointments then you are truly blessed. For some of us, though, the frenetic pace of digital information always conspires to keep us off-balance. At the big firm I had a secretary and depended on her to automatically handle many small administrative tasks.
These [...]
TextExpander is a wonderful utility (Mac only) that allows you to have short snippets of text that trigger an expansion of that text into a larger chunk of text (this works in any application, or any context). Your imagination is the limit when it comes to thinking of ways to use this, but I’ll [...]
