Adobe Acrobat vs. Exhibit Flow: Why Generic PDF Editors Fall Short for Exhibit Prep

Attorneys, paralegals, and legal assistants deal with PDFs every day.  Whether it’s preparing filings, exhibits for deposition, or for trial, legal professionals have to deal with these hard to edit files. 

Worse still, a lot of PDF work is rote and redundant—add an exhibit sticker or slipsheet to an exhibit, save it, and move to the next one. 

Manual Exhibit Prep Wastes Valuable Time

Adding physical stickers is a pain.  You need to print your exhibits, sticker them, and for filing, remote deposition use, or maintaining appropriate records, scan them into your file management system. 

Relying on Adobe Acrobat's out of the box solution is even worse.  You need to open each file, select a stamp (which you need to first load into Acrobat), number/letter it, move it to the right location, save the file, and move on to the next one.  Acrobat's standard stamp feature is fine for approving invoices and the like, but it falls short when you need to do exhibit stickers, slipsheets, create appellate appendices, and the like.

Further, manual numbering and lettering of exhibit stickers and slipsheets invites human error.  And if you find yourself off by one digit/letter, those errors often follow through going forward.  There’s nothing worse than realizing half your exhibits are off by one and needing to redo them as you try to meet a pressing deadline.

Exhibit Flow’s PDF Automation Lets You Reclaim the Unbillable Hour

Exhibit preparation is rarely billable.  And it’s a black hole for your time anyway—you could be doing more substantive legal work, be it fine tuning the citations on your brief, outlining the examination of a witness, or refining a brief.  That these tasks often fall on or just before deadline day adds needless stress too as you fight to beat the clock. 

This is where Exhibit Flow comes in.  Our automation software can mass add exhibit stickers and slipsheets to PDFs, create appellate appendices, prepare exhibit lists, and more.  Stop spending hours doing work that can be done in minutes.