LEDES glitch

[GoodmanSaul]

One of our LEDES file submissions has been giving us a persistent error for over a week now. The message says theres a problem reading specific lines but when I check them they look exactly like all the others. No one at the firm including the paralegals can figure out whats going wrong. We reached out to the client a major corporation, hoping for guidance. Unfortunately their support response is painfully slow the last time we submitted a ticket, it took 5 full weeks to hear back If anyones run into this before or knows how to fix line specific LEDES errors Id be really grateful for your help.

 

[A.Beiger]

Oof, that sounds frustrating!
Have you tried opening the LEDES file in a plain text editor like a NotePad or TextEdit?
Maybe there are hidden characters like extra spaces, tabs, or unusual line breaks at the end of those specific lines?
Sometimes these can cause parsing errors even if they don't appear in a regular view.
Also, double-check that every single line, especially the problematic ones, ends with the correct closing delimiter!
Other than these, my next recommendation is to do a character-by-character comparison.
Though hopefully you wouldn't need to do that!

 

[legalsidekick]

Ugh, that sounds super frustrating! Those LEDES errors can really be a headache. Sometimes, even when everything looks fine on the surface, there are little things that slip thru the cracks, like an extra space or a missing delimiter. I've even had issues with invisible characters messing things up in the past! Have you thought about running your file thru a plain text editor or a validation tool? It might help catch those sneaky probs.

 

[MotionCommotion]

We had this junior associate who got hung up on a LEDES issue for days. In the end, the culprit was just a single invisible tab, not a space on one line. After going through it line by line in Notepad++, we finally spotted it. It was like searching for a needle in a haystack, but it ended up saving the billing cycle.

 

[Baileyz]

Check for hidden characters or try copying the lines into a plain text editor and reformatting them. Also, make sure your file encoding is correct...UTF-8 without BOM is usually safest. If you haven't already, validate the entire file with an online LEDES validator, it might catch subtle errors.