The legal profession is awash in paper. This presentation discusses how to increase productivity, decrease costs, and improve client services by transitioning from paper to electronic client files with Adobe® Acrobat software and Portable Document Format (PDF) files.  PDF provides a reliable, easy-to-use electronic format for sharing, reviewing, filing, and archiving documents across diverse applications, business processes, and platforms.  You can hardly practice law today without knowing about the use of PDF files.

 

 

Learn how to:

- prepare and edit PDF documents

- create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents

- edit and Secure PDF Files

- work with MS Office Documents

- print production techniques

- work with multimedia in PDF search features and tools

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DAVID L. MASTERS is a general practitioner in Montrose, Colorado, his practice focuses on real estate and business matters, transactions and litigation. He received his J.D. from the University of Montana in 1986. David writes and speaks frequently on the use of information technology in the practice of law. He is the author of: The Lawyer's Guide to Adobe Acrobat, American Bar Association, Law Practice Management Section (2004); Chapter 23, “Electronic Briefs,” Colorado Appellate Practice Guide 5d, Continuing Legal Education in Colorado, Inc. (2005); Chapter 34, “Adobe Acrobat for E-Filing and More,” Flying Solo 2d, American Bar Association, Law Practice Management Section (2005); Chapter 14, “Securing Your Documents: Encryption, Digital Signatures and PDF,” Information Security for Lawyers and Law Firms, American Bar Association, Law Practice Management Section and Science & Technology Section (2006); and, numerous articles and presentations on the use of information technology in the practice of law.

 

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