In this Issue: The Legal Case for PDF/A; PDF Association Member LuraTech Europe GmbH; CeBIT 2012; LegalTech 2012; New Members [...]
It’s not just law firms that need to keep documents for a long period of time, but it sometimes feels like this industry takes the concept to a whole new level! In addition to the thousands of paper documents nearly every firm accumulates, most companies now have the need to operate some form of digital document storage and make use of so-called “Document Management Systems”. This means that many law firms now have the need to maintain (at least) two types of document archive, i.e. paper & digital. [...]
A good slide presentation offering an overview of PDF/A and its use in the US Courts is available online. It includes tips for an organization preparing to embrace PDF/A and describes various PDF/A pitfalls including metadata, redaction, differing requirements for different agencies. The focus is on best practices and it lists a decent index of products for PDF/A creation and validation, and a lot more. Do you have customers preparing to embrace PDF/A? [...]
US Courts are beginning to make the move to PDF/A as their preferred technical standard for electronic case filing in the Case Management and Electronic Case Filing (CM/ECF) system. Though no specific deadline has been set overall, each Court may determine its own deadline–and for some jurisdictions it may be soon. According to blogger Bruce Carton, “In the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, for example, the court will start posting documents in PDF/A format beginning June 1, 2011, and all court ECF filings uploaded on or after Jan. 1, 2012, must be in PDF/A format.” If the thought of such a conversion catches you unaware, a primer is available from the PIT IP Tech Blog. [...]
The combination of PDF/A technology and SharePoint provides enterprises with the advantage of an automated archiving solution that gives a seamless technical realization of legal or corporate regulations. Dr. Hans Bärfuss explains advantages of long-term archiving of documents in PDF/A format and describes the resulting benefits thereof based on practical examples. [...]
As far as the U.S. Courts are concerned, PDF is on life support, says DocsCorp. The company is offering a webinar on PDF/A on April 29, 2011 for firms to learn to create documents that comply with court requirements In its posting on the Legal IT Professionals website, DocsCorp says, “Many courts have announced that law firms can now file case documents with the CM/ECF in PDF/A, while others such as the U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh has stated that ‘ALL Court ECF filings uploaded on or after January 1, 2012, MUST be in PDF/A format.’” [...]
The PDF/A Competence Center, the professional association of the PDF/A community, expects great progress in PDF/A adoption over the next two years. The Center’s new Board reflects increasing international focus, with Germany’s Olaf Drümmer as the new chairman of the Board, new vice chair Duff Johnson from the United States and new Board member Stewart Rogers from the United Kingdom. [...]
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