Court Bundle

Benefits of Breaking the Habit of Creating Hard-Copy Bundles in 2024

If you want to make a change for you or your company, it’s not too late to make a New Year’s Resolution. As digital has become our new day-to-day, electronic bundles (e-bundles) are one of the online elements that have popularised over the past few years, particularly in the legal sector.  

The use of e-bundles has significantly changed the way legal professionals and law firms prepare and deliver electronic bundles of their files. Although printing hard copy bundles may not be eliminated entirely from the process, why not start 2024 off right by breaking the habit of creating hard-copy bundles when they are not needed? 

Streamline Business Processes 

Whether it’s a bundle or court file, the production and approval of files can be one of the most time-consuming aspects of the process. Sharing digitally for approval will allow each party to view easily without needing to review physical copies at different times, which can increase efficiency.  

Through the automation of time-intensive tasks, Bundledocs can reduce the stages in document preparation such as photocopying and delivery. Streamlining your operations and giving your team the time to focus on what really matters can also aid with employee retention. Streamlining business processes can also lead to improved productivity as employees will spend less time creating and editing manual bundles. 

Increased Collaboration 

Getting started with Bundledocs is extremely easy - all you need is a device and an email address (single sign on is available also). This makes it simple for teams to get set-up and start producing and collaborating on documents. Bundledocs can be used by anyone in any location, which facilitates the hybrid and fully remote working options that have become part of many standard working arrangements.  

Users can also make bundles fully searchable, making reviewing easy for colleagues, third-party editors, or clients. Research shows that organisations that embrace flexibility and the use of technology that supports remote collaboration are more likely to attract and retain employees.  

Sustainability 

Although paper bundles may still be required if a case goes to court, e-bundles can improve the preparation process by eliminating paper when sharing documents internally and externally. The amount of energy and water used in paper production has a significant and damaging impact on the environment, leading to deforestation and air pollution. Paper accounts for approximately 26% of total waste at landfill sites.  

As paper documents must be transported to their destination, digital bundles that utilise cloud storage can also help in reducing carbon emissions. This can also help you to reduce overheads like postage, couriers and DX. 

Heightened Security 

As the number and frequency of global cyber-attacks continues to rise, organisations may feel cautious about sharing files both internally and externally. Our solution is ISO 27001 certified, which is the international standard for information security management systems. This ensures that your documents are always safe and secure.  

Our customers’ information is stored securely using Microsoft SSL encryption, ensuring a secure communication channel exists which prevents any interception of data from third parties across our network and other internet communications. Users generating bundles can simply invite third parties to view bundles that they have created and all exchanges are security restricted. 

Start Using Bundledocs 

Now that you know the benefits, there’s nothing stopping you or your team from getting started with Bundledocs. Our solution is easy to use and setup is simple. If you are still uncertain about making the switch to digital files, get booked in for a free online demo today!  

Get Court Compliant with Bundledocs

The UK Judiciary recently introduced new guidance on the preparation of electronic bundles for court hearings. Up until the pandemic e-bundles had been utilised. However, during 2020 and beyond e-bundles were used extensively as court hearings were held remotely with documents becoming bigger and more demanding. This updated guidance which replaces the previous revision published in May 2020 has been developed to ensure consistency in the creation of e-bundles for the efficient preparation and management of court hearings. 

What does this mean for your firm? The good news is that at Bundledocs we are fully compliant. Here we have laid out some of the main points within the updated guidance and how you can approach creating your e-bundles compliantly: 

Ebundle Creation 

All bundles must now be provided in PDF format – something that our solution does automatically. Within your e-bundle all pages must be digitally numbered by computer-generated numbering, not by hand. Regardless of whether the first page is part of an index, the first page of the bundle must be numbered as one with additional pages following sequentially. If you are required to produce a hard copy of your bundle – the pagination must match the e-bundle.  

With Bundledocs you can manipulate your documents to meet requirements set out by the UK judiciary. If any of the pages in the bundle have been created in landscape orientation, they must appear within the bundle in this format so that they can be read from left to right.  Additionally, you have the option to change the default page view to be 100% to meet guidance set out by the judiciary. 

When it comes to the presentation of your ebundle the resolution should not be greater that 300 dpi to prevent slow scrolling or rendering when your ebundle is being viewed. To avoid excessively large bundles, you can easily adjust the resolution for your ebundle.  

 

Formatting 

All entries in an index must now be hyperlinked to the corresponding document, all sections must be bookmarked for ease of navigation and the bookmark should contain the page number of the document. With Bundledocs you can automatically  generate a customised index and bookmarks, which update each time you generate your bundle. Additionally, all pages with typed text must be subject to OCR, this allows for easier searching for text, highlighting parts of a page, and copying text from the bundle. Our built in OCR functionality means your firm will not have to purchase additional OCR software.  

Pre-Hearing 

E-bundles can be shared with the courts prior to hearings via email or by uploading to a document upload centre – the issue here is that some bundles may be too large to be sent via email. Bundledocs features a secure share functionality where you can share direct to a third party or via outlook. There is also the option to share as an email attachment or via the third parties software. Additionally, you can download you e-bundle and upload directly depending on the requirements set out by the court.  

If new documents need to be added after an e-bundle has been submitted to the judge the judiciary requires that pages are added to the end of a bundle and paginated accordingly. The judge should then be provided with the new bundle and separately the completed revised bundle. Our solution allows you to add additional documents at the last minute while generating a new version with numbering etc. automatically updated. There is also the option to generate your bundle with just the late inserts – rather than the entire bundle which can then be shared.               

We want to help you create e-bundles with complete ease. Get in touch to grab a copy of our court compliant template today.

Electronic Bundles & Document Production Made Easy for Lawyers

Are you looking to improve efficiency within your law firm?

If your firm is spending too much time and money on extracting, creating and sharing manual bundles, we can help. Our secure cloud-based solution ensures that your firm can work efficiently and help to support your overall growth by lowering costs, reducing time spent on creating and editing manual bundles, and enable secure document sharing with anyone, anywhere.

We handle everything from document bundling, document manipulation, redaction and annotations, collaboration, secure file sharing (great for large bundles) and in-built OCR for complete text searchability.

Plus, with even integrate with all leading case and document management solutions to make document production and electronic bundle creation even easier!

Interested to learn more? Watch our new video to understand who we are and how our solution can save you time and money, all while allowing you to collaborate with others from anywhere in the world.

Bundledocs Announce Sponsorship of Family Law Live 2020

Bundledocs is delighted to announce we are sponsoring and showcasing at the upcoming virtual Family Practice Online Conference on November 23rd.

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The Bundledocs team are excited to be showcasing at Family Law Live 2020 this month. This one day virtual summit, is a great opportunity for UK family lawyers to connect with the family law community and catch key sector updates to equip your team for the year ahead.

The event will kick off with an opening session with Resolution National Chair, Juliet Harvey, followed by a jam packed programme with over 25 workshops on the day. These workshops will focus on key sector updates across six areas, including: Legal Aid, Tax & Pensions, International Law & Brexit, Children, Family Courts and Safeguarding. That’s not all, attendees will get a sneak peak at the new Family Law Handbook due to be launched very soon.

Our team will be hosting our workshop ‘How to easily prepare court bundles for family proceedings’ at 3:15pm. So if your team needs to prepare court bundles then this is the session for you. We will showcase how simple it is to create court compliant bundles with Bundledocs, covering everything from automatic index creation, automatic numbering, late insert documents and how to securely share your bundle with the courts and third parties.

We can’t wait to see you all virtually in November, so be sure to book your spot today. .

Family Law Live 2020 Conference Details

Interested in attending Family Law Live 2020, then this is what you need to know…

When: Monday, November 23rd

Where: Online

Time: The event kicks off at 09:00am

Stand: Come learn more about Bundledocs at our virtual booth.

How To Organize Documents for Court

Bundledocs court bundle software makes the process of organizing documents for court and preparing court bundles incredibly easy. Whether you’re a legal professional or litigant in person, we have everything you need to easily organize and manage legal files in an instant.

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The Simple Way to Organize Documents for Court

Let’s take a look at some of the ways Bundledocs can help you easily organize documents, manage legal files for court and produce high quality court bundles in an instant.

One Court Bundle. One Location

With Bundledocs there is no back and forth. Simply create one bundle for your court documents and store everything you need in one place. That way you can see all documents at a glance and ensure that only the key documents are included in your bundle.

Better still, as Bundledocs is a cloud first solution we have in-built secure sharing and collaborative feature. What this means for you, is you don’t have to send documents to others. Simply create a single court bundle and grant access to anyone that needs it.


Sort Court Documents into Folders/ Sections

The easiest way to organize documents is by creating folders and sections. With Bundledocs you can create as many sections, sub-section or even volumes as needed. For example, create a ‘Pleadings’, ‘Correspondence’, ‘Records’ etc. section and add any documents you need to it. Check out our ‘Working with sections and sub-sections’ video to see how it’s done.

Easy Way to Organize Documents for Court

When it comes to organising documents, you may find that you have documents of different file formats. You could have emails (.msg), scanned letters (.png), documents from your document management system (.pdf and .docx) to name just a few. But how can you easily organise all these different documents and produce a single court bundle?

That’s simple. With Bundledocs you can upload any file type and there is no limit to the number of documents you can upload either. We will automatically convert all documents to PDF and when you’re ready to file documents or collate them into a single binder, you can do so with a single click. PDF court bundles are instantly produced by default or you can even create a .zip file if you would prefer to share documents in their original file format.

Check out our ‘Easily Organize Documents For Court’ to see how it works.


Arrange Court Documents in Chronological Order

When it comes to preparing court documents and organising documents for court, one of the questions that comes up time after time is - how can you easily sort court documents in chronological order? Like everything with Bundledocs, we’ve made this incredibly easy and it’s all done with a single click! Check out our ‘How to sort documents in date order’ video.

Even More Ways to Order and Organize Documents

When it comes to organising documents, we’ve developed a range of ways for you to easily sort documents, including: drag and drop to move a single document or multiple documents at once; use SHIFT on your keyboard to move a range of document; or even use our unique ‘move with a click’ feature to instantly move multiple documents at once. Our ‘Moving Documents with Bundledocs’ video will show you how it works.


Organize Documents for Court using Bundledocs

Take a look at our ‘Easily Organize Documents for Court’ video to see how how simple it is to organize documents for court using Bundledocs court bundle software.

Interested to learn more about Bundledocs and how it can help you organize documents and prepare document bundles for court? Get in touch. We provide free online demonstrations and a free 30-day trial so you can give it a try for yourself.