Are they just scanning documents that are presented
(Pre typed)
However they do it there are some good typing skills on display
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Monkeys, Typewriters.
They were probably referring to the olden days when court clerks would type up all documents to save legal professionals from bad handwriting. There was a concentrated effort by some courthouses to do this to older documents too. Becoming really good at reading awful handwriting is one of the hazards of the profession.
Of course they actually “type them” is this a joke? Do people actually type books, articles, papers. Asking questions like this is something a child does. like I say to my 12 year old, “you don’t need to ask a question you already know the answer to just to fill up the space”.
@mzt Wow! Has the stadium thing been covered in any articles? Sounds like you work in law, have you seen that done before?
e-signing has also been a thing for awhile now, so I'm sure in many cases, there's no actual paper involved.
Sure, there thousands of lawyers involved in the case, and from the names I see, some of them bill $2,000 an hour, so they're sure to have clerks making $200k a year working for them doing the actual typing too. To give you an idea of how large the Sears bankruptcy is, some of the motions are actually held in a stadium. Just getting past security more than an hour.
But doesn't someone have to type the original paper?
Federal courts require electronic submission these days, then they just sign and scan.