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Topic: Sending Non-Searchable PDFs to Opposing Counsel
Conf: (P-PDF) Legal, Msg: 141693
From: aevans2911
Date: 10/25/2005 02:56 AM

Hi Nancy.

Well, according to the paralegal/office admin person in St. Paul, MN, she states that "I don't want to give the opposing counsel an easy way to search the text of the discovery document I'm sending them" That was the main reason she wanted to send a flat file as opposed to the regular searchable pdf which is usually created with a converter type of software.
My thinking from an IT point of view is, there are standards being written today that will likely make it mandatory to send PDFs as searchable files, since courts are already asking that PDFs filed with them are set up that way.