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Exhibits, Bates numbers and court bundles
Short, practical guides for paralegals, lawyers and people representing themselves, in the US and the UK.
Bates numbering that runs in your browserA Bates number is a unique number stamped on every page of a document set, like SMITH-000001, so anyone can cite an exact page. Bindery stamps them on your PDFs and photos inside your…How to Bates number a PDFYou have three options: the Bates Numbering tool in Adobe Acrobat Pro, a free online tool that you upload the PDF to, or a browser tool like Bindery that numbers the files on your own…How to prepare exhibits for courtPick the documents and photos that prove your points, put them in a sensible order, give each one a label (Exhibit A, B, C or 1, 2, 3), number the pages, and list them on an exhibit list.…Exhibit stickers, explainedAn exhibit sticker is the small label on the first page of an exhibit that says whose exhibit it is and its number, like PLAINTIFF’S EXHIBIT 12. By long habit plaintiffs use yellow and…Family court bundles under the new PD27APractice Direction 27A changed on 2 March 2026. In children and other non-financial cases, the bundle is split into lettered sections and each section is paged on its own: A1, A2, then B1.…Does that PDF tool upload your files?Most free online PDF tools upload your document to their server, process it there and send it back. Some do the work in your browser instead. You don’t have to take anyone’s word for it:…