REDACTION DANGER

In December the Transportation Security Administration released its airport security screening procedure guidelines with redactions that failed to remove the underlying text. (Boing Boing: “Unfortunately, the security geniuses at the DHS don’t know that drawing...

SEARCHING AND MARKING MULTIPLE WORDS IN A PDF

Law offices and small businesses are using Acrobat very aggressively to archive email folders and preserve business documents. Lawyers are more likely now to handle case documents onscreen with PDF files than to touch real paper. The Acrobat For Legal Professionals...

ONLINE LEGAL RESEARCH TOOLS

Lawyers will be paying subscription fees to Lexis-Nexis and West for years to come, but there are some signs that legal information also wants to be free. Last week Google announced that Google Scholar now has a dedicated search for full-text legal opinions from...

LEXISNEXIS KILLS BILLING MATTERS

Billing Matters, the LexisNexis law office billing and accounting program, was killed last week. This was circulated Thursday and appeared in the TechnoLawyer newsletter. "Effective September 1, Billing Matters® will be placed in maintenance mode. During...

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ACROBAT VERSIONS

Everyone who uses Acrobat might be interested in the charts prepared for the blog Acrobat For Legal Professionals. The first shows the features of the various versions of Acrobat 9 – Reader, Standard, Professional, and Professional Extended – with a focus on features...

COMPLAINT FOR XMAS DAMAGES

Plaintiffs, consisting of the class of all children who on or about Dec. 24, 2008 were hanging stockings by the chimney with care in the reasonable belief that St. Nicholas soon would be there, sue defendant and allege: 1.    This is an action for an...