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Bates-Style Numbering in Acrobat

September 11, 2009

Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard has the ability to do Bates-style numbering, like you often see on document production in discovery. I used it today to number the appendix for a brief to the Minnesota Supreme Court, and it really made things easy on me. It is not obvious, but this walkthrough should help you get [...]

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CometDocs: an excellent free online file converter

June 25, 2009

PDF is the document format of choice for a number of reasons, but not everyone with whom you decide to share a PDF will be able to modify it (which is kind of the point). For those who need to, CometDocs is a free, online file converter with the ability to convert between over 50 [...]

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What I use to manage my practice

April 16, 2008

Note new post: What I use to manage my practice (update), February 6, 2009 As most readers of this blog know, I am in a constant search to find the “best” way to manage my practice. As everyone knows, there is no “best” way to manage a solo or small law practice, but there is [...]

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CLE – links

April 4, 2007

If you got here from the CLE earlier today, I promised I would post the links to software, hardware, and services mentioned during the CLE. Here they are, after the jump. Also, here is a previous post, “Learning to use your file system.” I touched briefly on this in the CLE, but 90% of what [...]

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Bates numbering with CutePDF

February 11, 2007

Going paperless if your document production usually involves a ton of documents presents a problem. To get Bates numbering features in Acrobat 8.0, you need to buy Acrobat Professional, a $449 program. Since that is more than most will pay for Microsoft Office 2007, it seems a bit beyond the reach of most solo practitioners. [...]

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