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WELCOME TO THE PDF LAW JOURNAL & BLOG

Thank you for visiting and please return as we build the pdfLaw database and links to Courts nationwide.

Our mission is to offer all law, in PDF format, free to the public. We also want to offer reviews and links to PDF tools and related resources for legal professionals and highlight the Power of PDF.

The 1991 Camelot project of Adobe’s co-founder John Warnock, and Postscript inventor, became the Adobe PDF specification. Now available for free and shared as an open source format. Today you can download a free PDF reader for every OS platform, and, a PDF document is accessible with every major browser. In 2008 Adobe released PDF as an open standard [ISO 32000-1] and is now an international electronic document standard.

PDF is the standard relied upon by the US Supreme Court, Federal Courts, the IRS, and by every law firm and paralegal on a daily basis.

Ignorantia juris non excusat

This latin phase roughly translated as “ignorance of the law is no excuse,” is a well known concept of law. The difficult part of that pillar of justice is that to make it fair it requires free access to the law and public notice of changes so it is not just a paid privilege but a public right. I learned this first hand and have believed in PDF from the beginning, and know the power of this incredible, reliable and dynamic format firsthand.

BREAKING NEWS:  Adobe has released a new application that allows PDF file conversions in iOS.

Apple Insider’s Chris Smith reports that Adobe released a new application for iPhone and iPad that lets users convert documents to PDF files right from the iOS mobile device.   Read more …

At the PDF Law Journal & Blog we look forward to re-joining the conversation and building a resource and community for you to visit and share your experience, and help publish the law for everyone.

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Thanks,

Richard OBrien
Publisher & Editor