Another Legal iPad App

This one looks pretty good too. It’s called Exhibit A. What I like about this app is that it’s not a linear presentation like PowerPoint or Keynote. It lets you pick a slide easily and present in what ever order works for you. 

 

Even More Legal iPad Apps

After my last post, I found another bunch of good stuff.

 

Fastcase (free) is a legal research tool. 

 

LawStack (free) is basically a mini legal library.  It contains:

• US Constitution
• Federal Rules of Federal of Civil Procedure
• Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
• Federal Rules of Evidence
• Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure
• Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
• More stuff that’s downloadable inside the app

PocketJustice (Free) is an app that include voting alignments and biographical sketches for all 100 justices at the US Supreme Court.  It also has 100 constitutional law cases.

 

Black’s Law Dictionary, 9th Edition. ($54.99)

 

 

The Essential Law Dictionary ($9.99)....yet another legal dictionary.

 

Nolo’s Plain English Law Dictionary.  (Free) Yep…another one.

 

Legal News Reader ($0.99)  A Legal specific news reader pulling from multiple sources (CNN, HUD, Law.com, LexisNexis, etc…)

 

ABA Journal (Free) the American Bar Association’s iPad app for legal news.

Court Days ($0.99) A date calculator assisting to calculate the number of court or calendar days before or after a given date.

 

US Code (Free) is an app that has the entire US Code for all federal statues available for viewing on your iPad.

Enjoy…

iPad apps for the Attorney

So I got an iPad last year. As skeptical as I am about gadgets…I gotta tell ya I love it!  My role in our Firm is to evaluate new technology so that the good stuff eventually ends up in the hands of our Attorney’s.  Once you get past the eye candy, what can an iPad really do for an Attorney?  Well, so far I’ve only found a few legal specific apps.  Here they are:

 

iJuror is a juror selection tool.  It keeps track of people during the jury selection process allowing you to keep track of their details and what you did/didn’t like about them.

iCle, made by the same people that make iJuror helps an Attorney keep track of their CLE credits.  This is a very basic app and seems more like a simple note taking replacement.

 

JuryTracker looks interesting. It replaces the sticky notes Attorney’s often user to keep track of Juror information at trial.  You can easily keep track of generic case data, each juror’s details like their chair position in court, their mood, etc.  There is even a timer built in to keep track of the time used in court by the Plaintiff and the Defendant.  Definitely worth a look…

 

TrialPad looks like it’s going to be really useful.  It’s a case preparation and presentation tool which looks to compete with tools like Trial Director and Sanction.  It certainly doesn’t have as much functionality at this point, but it will be interesting to see what happens as this tool matures.

Those are the main tools I’ve found so far for the legal profession.  There are tons of other tools on the fringe like PDF editors, document review tools and financial tools but I wanted to focus specifically on legal tools.  If you’ve found any others please hit me up in the comments and let me know.

PDQ Deploy

I ran into a cool tool today for installing software on a remote box.  It’s called PDQ Deploy and it’s from the fellas over at Admin Arsenal.  We use Prism Deploy for our Firm, but I can see using this tool in a pinch for even faster deployments. Prism Deploy clients (which require and agents) are set to “check in” every 5 minutes for new stuff.  With this tool I can truly push software to machines on demand and not worry about the client having the agent.