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Five Helpful iPhone Apps for Attorneys

By J. Benjamin Stevens on Posted in iPhone

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) published a list of the following five apps that show what the iPhone can do for attorneys:

  1. DataViz‘s DocumentsToGo allows you to edit and change documents, as well as email them over Exchange to other team members. While not a replacement for desktop word processors, this app makes document editing at least moderately feasible.
  2. Thomson Reuters‘ Blacks Law Dictionary not only provides definitions, but it also includes hyperlinks to Westlaw for rules and case law.
  3. TimeWerks is a billing app that will track your projects and time spent in a way that, while not strictly built for lawyers, is user-friendly and versatile, and lets you export a .CSV file that may streamline getting the data to your main billing program.
  4. Court Days enables you to easily calculate days before or after any particular deadline, and it claims to recognize which days are court holidays for your particular jurisdiction.
  5. The Law Pod is a suite of six apps that offers full-text and searchable versions of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Federal Rules of Evidence, and the U.S. Constitution.

Source:  "Five Apps for the Lawyer" by Lauren Hirsch, published at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).

  • Anna Smith

    Thanks for sharing these links. I don’t know if you have seen these, but there are law dictionaries you can get for your iPhone. You can download Black’s Law and Barron’s Law. Very convenient, especially in class or when doing research and you don’t want to carry around the printed edition. I high recommend Barron’s version. It is less complete compared to Black’s, but easier to understand and cheaper. I also downloaded the free law dictionary, but that wasn’t complete enough.

  • http://www.warecornell.com Ware Cornell

    I bought court days and I am not too happy. It has all these jurisdictions listed but seems to have no sense of the rules. For instance in federal court of something is required to be done in eleven or less days, you exclude intervening weekends and legal holidays. If you pick Court days it will exclude weekends an legal holidays whether you have something due in ten or thirty days. It also does not account for mailing days (which are strangely incorporated in the CM/ECF rules in Florida federal courts).
    This program does what it says it does but if you don’t know the rules and rely on it, it may produce real problems.