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Evidence and contract workflows for law firms and in-house counsel: assemble records in order, Bates numbering, PII redaction and permanent blackout, version comparison, metadata sanitizing, and validated PDF/A archiving.

Best for: Lawyers, litigation support, compliance, in-house counsel

The usual order: number the exhibits with Bates, split at the bookmarks, redact the privileged text, then compare versions and protect the file.

How to use

  1. 1Merge evidence and exhibits in order, then paginate the record
  2. 2Apply Bates numbering to build a citable chain of evidence
  3. 3Redact or permanently black out personal data before export
  4. 4Compare versions, strip metadata and archive to PDF/A

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