Our ongoing forms support has inadvertently made us familiar with many of the administrative rules involved with the more commonly-used forms, and we've found ourselves fielding questions not just about how to enter data in to a form, but which information to include in a form for a desired filing outcome. MerusCase Support, essentially, sometimes finds itself in the position of telling lawyers and paralegals how to practice law.

We recently fielded a question from a paralegal regarding a particular California DWC form used for filing motions in Workers' Compensation cases: DWC 10250.1 Declaration of Readiness to Proceed. The current version of this form is broadly spaced and has bar codes and discrete checkboxes, enabling the same form to be used for paper filing, for OCR (optical character recognition) digital scanning, and for JET electronic filing. This universal layout means the form contains the same information as older DOR versions, but the appearance and implementation are different.