The Problem
As a litigator, you need immediate access to PDF copies of new filings in your federal court matters and you need to know your team (associates, paralegals, docketing) got copies, too. But getting the PDF's can be a pain: court Notices of Electronic Filing are only sent to select members of the team, and then everyone else must wait while someone manually clicks a series of hyperlinks to download, label and distribute the underlying documents. Then you have to wait, again, for those documents to be properly filed to your document management system.
Lawyers Find Help in PacerPro
For these busy lawyers, their professional staff set up PacerPro. Without having to attend any training or change their workflow, these lawyers now receive PDF copies of their filings in real-time straight to their email inbox. Just as important, they can rest easy knowing the rest of the case team got what they needed, too.
PacerPro alerts provide both the underlying filings and arrive real time, eliminating the need for case teams to manually download documents from court Notices of Electronica Filings. We also store all firms filings and associated meta to the correct client matter workspace on your document management system or other experience capture platforms.
With PACER, you get the notice, but you have to rely on other people in the firm to get the document and bring it to you or e-mail it to you. With PacerPro, you just get the document. It's been critical to me for years now.
Robin Brewer
Counsel
Morrison & Foerster
It makes life a heck of a lot easier being able to just click on the document immediately or forward that to a client.
Doug Mitchell
Partner
Jenner Block
Lawyers Get Better PACER Access Through PacerPro’s PACER Overlay
There are lots of software tools available to attorneys these days. But there are times when you just need direct access to the full, official federal court record. Lawyers turn to PacerPro for the comprehensive search and tracking features they need - with a user interface that lets them focus on the job at hand, not another software training module.
Tracking:
With PacerPro, you can get notification of any PACER activity in any case even if you haven’t entered an appearance. It’s then simple to pick any docket entry and just click once and that docket entry is downloaded.
Steve Ludwig
Partner
Fox Rothschild LLP
Free archive:
If anyone using the PacerPro system has already downloaded the documents you need, you can download them without incurring PACER fees
Steve Ludwig
Partner
Fox Rothschild LLP
Search and monitoring:
PacerPro provides the ability to search in different courts using various parameters. So I find it useful, for example, when I want to know how many other cases a plaintiff filed, or if on the same day someone sued our client, they filed 25 other cases.
Steve Ludwig
Partner
Fox Rothschild LLP
