Who can dispute that the portable document format has become the lingua franca of legal documents today? PDF is the standard for electronic filing, scanned documents, digital signatures, form distribution and much more.

Even though Adobe has freely licensed the PDF standard, the company still maintains a sturdy foothold in the PDF world with their time-tested Acrobat suite of products. Adobe has now released version 9 of its flagship application, and while there isn’t much that is brand new, there are some noteworthy improvements for the legal community.