“The formatting and removal of spaces is so bad. I cannot believe that is the doc as she posted up to Michigan. Something must have been lost in transmission. It’s almost unreadable.”
I have worked with lawyers of decent caliber on a number of projects involving the submission of legal documents and electronic transmission of legal documents. I am willing to postulate that the typos and spacing issues are largely a consequence of equipment problems - flawed OCR reconstruction of photocopies or faxes, etc. Obviously, I’m not handling the documents, but to me it looks like that. The physical copies, when they arrive, are likely to be immaculate.
Add to all that the necessity of producing a vast document in a very short timeframe (5 day window from certification in GA, for example) and some errors are going to occur.
Even if the documents are flawed in this version, and the judge(s) require corrections, they are already reading them in the current format. A few missing spaces are not going to slow them down one bit.
Agreed, and these type of doc problems sometimes happen when sending/crossing file types, and even different versions of Word itself.
And as you stated, various file types within a single doc will really mess with processing.