Name: Smarter Legal Workflows with Adobe Acrobat: From Fundamentals to AI
Uploaded: 2026-03-16T10:00:00-07:00
Description: A practical, lawyer-focused program showing how to streamline everyday legal work using Adobe Acrobat. The session covers essential PDF fundamentals and then demonstrates how AI, Actions, and advanced tools can automate tasks, reduce risk, and save time. Designed for immediate, real-world use in any legal practice.

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Smarter Legal Workflows with Adobe Acrobat: From Fundamentals to AI

A practical, lawyer-focused program showing how to streamline everyday legal work using Adobe Acrobat. The session covers essential PDF fundamentals and then demonstrates how AI, Actions, and advanced tools can automate tasks, reduce risk, and save time. Designed for immediate, real-world use in any legal practice.

Topics covered include:

Legal Tech Artificial Intelligence (AI) Law Practice

Agenda:

Introduction to Acrobat, Automation, & AI

Why Acrobat still drives legal workflows
How fundamentals, automation, and AI fit together

Acrobat Essentials

Acrobat interface essentials for lawyers
Pages panel: insert, extract, reorder, rotate
Combining pleadings, exhibits, and correspondence

Document Best Practices

Bookmarking briefs and records
Searching large PDFs and OCR for scanned documents
Redaction best practices and common mistakes
Intro to Bates numbering and document comparison

AI Use Cases

AI use cases in legal practice
Summarizing records, transcripts, and medical files
Asking questions across multi-document PDFs
Finding clauses, issues, and inconsistencies

Automation Overview

Automating workflows with Actions
Batch OCR, Bates numbering, and redaction
Document comparison and advanced tools

Conclusion

Key takeaways and best practices
Final questions

Duration of this webinar: 60 minutes

Originally broadcast: March 16, 2026 10:00 AM PT

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00:00 Introduction

Daniel J. Siegel, the speaker, is introduced with his extensive legal background and expertise in Adobe Acrobat. Daniel explains the versatility of Adobe Acrobat, emphasizing its potential beyond being a simple PDF reader. The presentation will focus on two features: Adobe Actions and the AI Assistant.

06:16 Adobe Actions

Daniel discusses Adobe Actions, a feature many lawyers are unaware of, which automates repetitive tasks. Actions can perform a series of tasks on PDFs, such as combining, renaming, and optimizing them. He explains how Actions improve efficiency by automating steps like adding watermarks and headers. Daniel highlights the scalability of Actions, allowing processes to be run on multiple files simultaneously. He emphasizes the time-saving benefits of Actions, reducing tedious work for legal professionals.

15:21 AI Assistant

Daniel elaborates on the AI Assistant's ability to enhance productivity through advanced AI technology. He stresses the importance of understanding documents despite using AI tools for assistance. The AI Assistant can automate tedious tasks, extract text, and summarize information efficiently. Daniel warns against over-reliance on AI, emphasizing the need for personal verification of information. He shares examples of how AI Assistant aids in legal research and preparation for court arguments.

32:09 Practical Applications of AI Assistant in Legal Work

Daniel demonstrates practical applications of AI Assistant in legal work, such as creating dynamic PDFs. He shows how to automate document preparation with features like sharing options. The AI Assistant can generate summaries and answer specific questions about documents. Daniel explains how AI can assist in extracting key information efficiently.

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Speaker

Daniel J. Siegel Attorney

Attorney Daniel J. Siegel represents clients in workers' compensation, personal injury, and Social Security disability claims, and he assists clients with estate planning and other needs. Dan's expertise ranges from handling everything from major mass torts and arguing before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to smaller matters like appearing in traffic court during his 38-year career. Read More ›

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Alaska CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 General

Earn Credit Until: March 15, 2031

California CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 Technology in the Practice of Law

Earn Credit Until: June 30, 2026

Hawaii CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 General

Earn Credit Until: March 15, 2028

Illinois CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 General

Earn Credit Until: March 15, 2028

New Jersey CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.20 General

Earn Credit Until: March 15, 2027

North Carolina CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 Technology Training

Earn Credit Until: February 28, 2027

Ohio CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 General

Earn Credit Until: December 31, 2026

Pennsylvania CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 Substantive Law, Practice, and Procedure

Earn Credit Until: March 15, 2028

Texas CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 General

Earn Credit Until: February 28, 2027

Vermont CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 General

Earn Credit Until: March 16, 2031

This presentation is approved for one hour of General CLE credit in Alaska, one hour of Technology in the Practice of Law CLE credit in California, one hour of General CLE credit in Hawaii, one hour of General CLE credit in Illinois, one hour of Technology Training CLE credit in North Carolina, one hour of General CLE credit in Ohio, one hour of Substantive Law, Practice, and Procedure CLE credit in Pennsylvania, and one hour of General CLE credit in Vermont. This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 1.20 hours of total CLE credit. This course has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of Texas Committee on MCLE in the amount of 1.00 credit hours.

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