Recommended iPad Apps for the Legal Professional

If you already have an application for your iPhone or iPod Touch, simply sync them to IPad from your Mac or PC.  They run in their original size or you can expand them to fill the iPad screen.  Simply click on the highlighted app to learn more details and to purchase.

Free Apps:

  • The American Lawyer:  The nation’s leading legal monthly magazine now accessible through an iPad app. 
  • Weather Channel: The Weather Channel Max for IPad delivers in-depth weather, innovative maps, a robust video library, plus so much more. This app is great for the traveling professional!   
  • Evernote: From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put it all into Evernote and watch as it instantly synchronizes from your iPad to your Mac or Windows desktop.  
  • Dropbox: Easy way to sync and share files online and across computers. 
  • Facebook: Stay connected and share information with friends and colleagues with one of the number-one social media networks.
  • Twitter: Discover what's happening right now anywhere in the world.
  • Dragon Dictation: Easy-to-use voice-recognition application that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or e-mail messages.  Dictate status updates to your Facebook or Twitter application or send notes and reminders to yourself.
  • Banner & Witcoff's IP Lawyer:  Banner & Witcoff’s IP Lawyer is a free iPhone/iPad application providing full search access to patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and to a comprehensive library with up-to-date news and information on patent legislation, court rules, and laws by jurisdiction. 
  • altFastcase for the iPhone/iPad is a free legal research application, putting the American law library in the palm of your hand. Fastcase contains cases and statutes from all 50 states and from the federal government. You can search by citation, keyword (in Boolean or natural language), or browse statute collections.

 

Low-cost Apps:

  • iJuror:  iJuror's focus is on the jury selection process.
  • Jury Tracker:  Jury Tracker facilitates the collection jury information and observations about jurors during trial. 
  • The Deponent App:  The Deponent App is a deposition question and exhibit outline application for lawyers. Attorneys can select over 150 deposition questions by Categories, including Admonitions or Expert Qualifications; organize the order of questions; and customize the questions for their witnesses. Each question can also be linked to an exhibit. Attorneys can also create their own Categories and Questions.
  • Desktop: Ever wanted to have a web browser open while writing an e-mail or a map open while looking at the weather? Desktop allows you to perform these tasks by providing  split-screen multitasking environment in which you can open and interact with any two of its bundled tools and utilities simultaneously.
  • ReaddleDocs: ReaddleDocs is all-in-one document reader for iPhone and iPod Touch. It can catch documents from any source you can imagine: PC or Mac computers, websites, email attachments, iDisk,  ReaddleDocs features outstanding PDF viewer that: opens large PDFs, supports full text search, has text reflow mode, handles PDF links and outlines, opens password protected documents, and extracts text from the PDFs.
  • GoodReader: Transfer files directly from your computer over a USB cable, Wi-Fi connection, Internet, or e-mail attachments. PDF Reflow feature reading documents is a pleasure because it extracts pure text from PDF files and automatically wraps words.
  • Keynote:  Create amazing presentations, complete with animated charts and transitions.
  • iAnnotate PDF: PDF reader and powerful annotation tool that lets you work with your PDFs. 
  • Pages: Pages is most beautiful word processing app ever designed for a mobile device.  Pages has everything you need to create and share documents, including templates, easy-to-use formatting options and layout tools.
  • Federal Civil Procedure by Matt Miller: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure app for the iPhone and iPad -- essential for the legal professional on the go.

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  • Documents to Go Premium:  Support viewing and editing of Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.
  • Quick Office Connect Mobile Suite: Takes mobile productivity to the next level.  Full control of creating, editing, formatting, accessing and sharing Word, Excel spreadsheets. Connected Filemanager also enables to remotely access, transfer, share and manage your files on remote storage service providers such as Dropbox, MobileMe, Box.net.
  • LogMein Ignition: Remotely access one or more computers anywhere, any time.  So you never have to worry about leaving anything behind.


     




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