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Actually this is done as a courtesy! it doesn’t necessarily affect the attorney at all. It’s the secretary that has to retype the questions and set up the responses. if he/she is efficient, they will provide draft responses already typed along with the incoming requests before they even give them to the attorney.
My firms technology was top notch but even when you convert the pdf to Word you have to clean it up. For me it was easier to retype it than it was to read every line for formatting and spacing issues, but to each their own.
As to opposing counsel, treat others as you would want to be treated. Firms do not bill for their secretaries time so are you really saving money by not providing Word documents when you can? Will that change the outcome of the service you provide to your client? Will you win more cases if you are known in the legal field as someone that won’t work with other attorneys. I’ve yet to see the benefit.
The secretaries at my Firm would simply make a phone call to ask for the requests from other offices There was never an issue and most times the attorneys didn’t know or care. They just need the work done.
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Very rare, and I am in California - there is more of a request for Separate Statements in word which the other party is required to give in word if requested - and it makes sense because sometimes the statements can be over 140 pages. That being said some discovery requests can be quite lengthy.
Yes, it happens frequently here in Mississippi. I also ask them to send the discovery, if I don't have software that will ocr it for me...
Yes. It's common in my state.
That’s normal to get yea
Doesn’t everyone do that? Ask opposing counsel to send in word format?
I am *shocked* how common this is.
It takes 4 to 6 seconds to copy/paste something.
Never once have I thought I’d rather have a word document as opposed to having all parties working off what’s filed and time stamped.
I’ve been on this app a long time and never experienced so much hate. I’m gonna go back to doing what it is that I do, and y’all can go back to your dog bites and wills for barbers and mechanics.
You highlight the interrogatory. You press ctrl +c. You click into YOUR word document. You press ctrl +v.
Here’s the critical part. If you don’t hold down ctrl while you press c and don’t hold down ctrl when you press v, it doesn’t do anything.
As long as you don’t have reason to believe that they want the word version in order to view metadata, all edits or prior comments, etc.,
Yes! All the time. It is common courtesy so that you don't have to copy cut and paste over the requests to place in the responses.
This is normal