GENERAL INFO.	The “Administrative Procedures Manual” requires an attorney to “sign” any document electronically filed with the court using an “s/” followed by the attorney’s name. This is to be placed where the attorney would normally sign his/her name. Signing your documents in this manner requires you to place “s/Joe Attorney” on the signature line in your word processor prior to converting your document to PDF. Another way to “digitally sign” your documents is by using the Adobe Acrobat signature feature.
STEPS 1 - 2	Open Adobe Acrobat and the document that you wish to sign.
STEPS 3 - 5	Click on “Tools”, “Digital Signatures”, and “Sign Document…” You will need to set up your signature the first time you do this.
STEP 6	The following screen will display. Click the okay button.
STEP 7	Your mouse pointer will turn into cross hairs so you can “target” where you want your signature. Place the cross hairs in the area above your blank signature line and hold your left mouse button down to draw out a box.
STEP 8	The first time you do this OR the first time you are on a computer under a different user’s login the following box will appear. If you need to establish a signature click on the button. Click on the button if you have an established signature and just need to find it.
STEP 9	To create your signature, enter your information as indicated below: You must enter a password of your choice and retype it as confirmation.
STEP 10	Click the okay button.
STEP 11	Adobe will then prompt you to save your signature. Click the button.
STEP 12	Adobe will inform you that you are logged in. If you put a check mark in the , you may choose to not show the above message again. Click the okay button.
STEP 13	You will be prompted to enter your password. Read the message and act as directed.
OPTIONS	If you click the button, the window will enlarge as shown below. While it isn’t necessary, you can use this to add your “Reason for Signing” with the choices shown below if you wish.
STEP 14	In our example, we clicked on the button to add the signature to the current document. The following screen will then display. If you put a check mark in the , you may choose to not show the above message again. Once you click the okay button, Adobe will sign your document in the location where you drew the box as shown below.
FINAL NOTE	The check mark will change to a question mark if you edit a document that has already been signed, and the signature will no longer be marked as “Valid”, but will be marked as “Not Verified” as shown below.