Sending and Receiving Faxes on the iPad

Fax machines are not (yet) extinct.

Sure, you may have a paperless office. Everything is scanned, saved, and emailed. There are times, however, when you need to fax a document to the court or opposing counsel. Do you need a fax machine? No. You can send and receive faxes as .pdf attachments in your email inbox.

Here’s how to send and receive faxes on your iPad – and the most popular e-fax services.

After speaking at the Texas Center for the Judiciary‘s Annual Conference, New Orleans attorney Jeff Richardson described a Texas judge who signs warrants that are faxed to his iPad:

He has an account with eFax, which gives him a fax number that sends PDF versions of FAXs to his email.  When officers need warrants signed after hours, they can fax the warrant to his eFax number, he can then review the warrant on his iPad, if it is appropriate he can sign and date it using one of the iPad PDF programs, and then he can e-mail the signed document back to eFax so that the officer receives a signed fax and can execute the warrant.

The judge receives the fax as an email attachment. He clicks on the .pdf file, taps the action (box-and-arrow) button in the upper right corner, chooses “Open-In” and uses either PDF Expert or SignMyPad to sign the warrant.

More information on signing and sending pleadings:

• Sign Docs from Email (or Fax) with SignMyPad
• Use PDF Expert to Sign and Send Pleadings

The most popular fax services on your iPad:

• RingCentral
• eFax
• MyFax

As they say, justice never sleeps. Or was that Batman? Either way, kudos to the judge for his commitment to Texas law enforcement at all hours.