apps – Robert Ambrogi's LawSites

Adobe yesterday introduced a scanner app for mobile devices that includes optical character recognition, so you can edit documents after you scan them. It also introduced notable updates to Adobe...

https://www.lawnext.com/2017/06/adobe-unveils-free-scanner-app-ocr-enhancements-adobe-sign.html

The CLE provider Lawline recently rolled out enhancements to its iOS app, adding the ability to view synchronized presentation slides as you listen to a program, to download the program’s writt...

https://www.lawnext.com/2017/04/update-lawlines-app-enhances-cle-iphones-ipads.html

Out today is a significant enhancement to an app that may forever change how you read and annotate complex documents — at least if you use an iPad and especially if you use an iPad Pro. The app...

https://www.lawnext.com/2017/03/app-may-forever-change-read-legal-documents.html

An iOS app launched earlier this year in the UK aims to be the Tinder of legal hiring, and it has been quickly building momentum, with more than 4,000 job-seeking lawyers and 100 legal employers ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2016/12/app-aims-tinder-legal-hiring.html

The most popular legal-specific smartphone app among lawyers is Westlaw (maybe) and the most popular smartphone among lawyers is the iPhone, according to the 2016 Legal Technology Survey Report j...

https://www.lawnext.com/2016/11/aba-tech-survey-reveals-lawyers-favorite-mobile-apps-phones.html

Last May, this blog covered the major redesign of its website by the CLE provider Lawline. Now, Lawline has released a new mobile app, allowing lawyers to complete their CLE anywhere via an iPhon...

https://www.lawnext.com/2016/11/lawline-releases-mobile-app-cle-go.html

In his keynote speech kicking off the Clio Cloud Conference in Chicago this morning, Clio co-founder and CEO Jack Newton unveiled the practice management platform’s new mobile app for iOS and A...

https://www.lawnext.com/2016/09/clio-releases-new-mobile-app-weve-got-details-pictures.html

I am so dependent on a second monitor that I no longer feel productive without one. That can be a problem when I am away from my office. It is especially a problem when I travel and am hunkered d...

https://www.lawnext.com/2016/08/app-turns-ipad-second-monitor.html

For many trial lawyers, the iPad has become an essential accoutrement. It is used in discovery, depositions, research, jury selection, trial presentations and even settlement negotiations. For a ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2016/04/42-ipad-apps-trial-lawyers.html

While catching up yesterday with Casemaker CEO David Harriman about his company’s litigation with Fastcase, I also had the chance to ask him about Casemaker’s acquisition of the Rulebook app...

https://www.lawnext.com/2016/03/acquisition-rulebook-app-casemaker-plans-expand-coverage.html

Westlaw has had an iPad app since 2010. Surprisingly, however, it has not had its own iPhone app. iPhone users could access Westlaw through a mobile-optimized site. But there was no app. Well, no...

https://www.lawnext.com/2016/03/westlaw-gets-app-research-updates-iphone.html

Debuting at ABA Techshow this week is a new iOS app that will allow consumers to locate an available attorney and connect with him or her instantly by video, in much the same way that someone can...

https://www.lawnext.com/2016/03/new-app-become-uber-law.html

At ABA Techshow this week, the cloud practice management application Clio launched a dedicated iPad app. Above is a slideshow of screencaps from the new app. The app allows users to: Get full acc...

https://www.lawnext.com/2015/04/slideshow-clios-new-ipad-app.html

If you’re planning a trip, whether for business or travel, run — or maybe I should say hop — to the iTunes store and get Hopper. Consider Hopper a Big Data tool for finding small airfares. ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2015/04/hopper-app-tells-you-the-best-time-to-buy-air-tickets.html

The iPad is fast replacing the legal pad as the essential accoutrement of trial lawyers. But what are the most-helpful apps for iPad- and iPhone-bearing litigators to load onto their devices befo...

https://www.lawnext.com/2015/02/40-essential-apps-trial-lawyers.html

Evernote recently introduced Scannable, a free scanner app for iPhone and iPad. Although it is not the perfect scanner app, it has some great features that could make it your scanner app of choic...

https://www.lawnext.com/2015/01/evernotes-new-scannable-may-best-scanner-app-yet.html

If ever there was a Swiss Army knife of an app for lawyers, it is the Wolfram Lawyer’s Professional Assistant. This multi-function app for iPad and iPhone can perform calendar computations, fe...

https://www.lawnext.com/2015/01/wolfram-app-swiss-army-knife-lawyers.html

A Boston-based developer of legal apps, Lawyer-Apps, has partnered with the Uniform Law Commission, the organization that drafts uniform laws and promotes their adoption by states, to release an�...

https://www.lawnext.com/2015/01/family-law-second-series-uniform-law-commission-apps.html

The Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law has been available as an iOS and Android app for more than two years now, but the iOS version just came out in an upgrade that adds new functionality by ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2014/10/upgrade-merriam-websters-law-dictionary-ios-app.html

For the second successive year, the Fastcase legal research app is the most popular legal app among lawyers, according to the 2014 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report. The most popular business ap...

https://www.lawnext.com/2014/09/fastcase-popular-legal-app-aba-survey-says.html

I recently reported here about the ABA Journal’s Hackcess to Justice, the first-ever hackathon held during an ABA annual meeting. First prize went to William Palin, a Massachusetts lawyer. Ov...

https://www.lawnext.com/2014/08/another-app-hackcess-winner.html

One of the nice features of Android devices that iOS devices lack is the ability to swap keyboards. This lets you try out different keyboards with different input methods and find one that best s...

https://www.lawnext.com/2014/05/android-keyboard-made-lawyers.html

Lawyers are supposed to be experts at deciphering convoluted rules. But even lawyers can be confounded by the rules of golf. Thus, the golfers among you will be pleased to learn that two lawyers ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2014/04/new-app-guides-lawyers-others-golf-course.html

A third-year student at The University of Michigan Law School has created an iPad app, BriefCase, that automates the creation of case briefs. The student, David Lutz, found it cumbersome to have ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2014/03/briefcase-app-automates-creation-case-briefs.html

It’s been a bad couple of weeks for apps that let you share contact information. Recently, I wrote about problems with CardMunch, the LinkedIn app that uses actual humans to read and transcribe...

https://www.lawnext.com/2014/01/bump-app-gets-bumped.html

Starting tomorrow and continuing every Friday thereafter, the creators of the Rulebook app will offer for free one of the books from its library of state and federal rule books. The company is ca...

https://www.lawnext.com/2013/10/free-mobile-rule-books-starting-tomorrow.html

The popular blog that covers the Supreme Court, SCOTUSblog, released an iOS app yesterday. It provides mobile access to the same content that is available on the blog. It also provides push notif...

https://www.lawnext.com/2013/10/scotusblog-gets-ios-app.html

Updates, 10/9/13, 3:53 p.m.: Some additions and clarifications to my original post from earlier today: Invites to the app can be requested from within the app once you download it. Once you are a...

https://www.lawnext.com/2013/10/law-com-launches-ios-app-readies-new-contributor-network.html

The challenge of developing an app for the legal market is to define a compelling reason for lawyers to use it. We are all busy and we all have established sources for getting the news and inform...

https://www.lawnext.com/2013/10/new-legal-app-promises-much-delivers-less.html

Talk about a living Constitution — here’s one the framers never saw coming. Today, the U.S. government is marking Constitution Day by launching an official annotated Constitution app that wil...

https://www.lawnext.com/2013/09/the-constitution-theres-a-new-app-for-that.html

What are the most popular legal and business smartphone apps among lawyers? According to the 2013 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report, the most popular legal app by a long shot is Fastcase. The mo...

https://www.lawnext.com/2013/08/the-most-popular-apps-for-lawyers-and-other-insights-on-mobile-lawyering-from-the-aba-tech-survey.html

In a recent article about mobile marketing I wrote for Law Practice Magazine, I explained why I am skeptical about the marketing value of law firm apps. I made an exception, however, for apps tha...

https://www.lawnext.com/2013/07/labor-firms-app-calculates-fmla-leave.html

Legal news company ALM today rolled out a set of apps for iPhones and iPads covering 14 of its national and regional publications. The apps, which can be downloaded from at.law.com/apps, cover th...

https://www.lawnext.com/2013/06/alm-launches-iphone-and-ipad-apps-for-14-legal-publications-in-u-s.html

This article won the LitigationWorld Pick of the Week award. The editors of LitigationWorld, a free weekly email newsletter for litigators and others who work in litigation, give this award to on...

https://www.lawnext.com/2013/06/lawsauce-apps-helps-you-locate-legal-materials-worldwide.html

Business cards can be a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that they provide an easy way to exchange contact information. The curse comes when you get back to your office and have to figure ou...

https://www.lawnext.com/2013/04/cardmunch-offers-a-better-way-to-ingest-business-cards.html

At ABA Techshow next week in Chicago, the cloud practice management platform MyCase is slated to debut a mobile app that will be a first for practice-management apps in that it will allow both cl...

https://www.lawnext.com/2013/03/mycase-app-will-let-both-clients-and-lawyers-access-case-information.html

I received an email yesterday alerting me to a new app for converting Microsoft Office documents to PDF on an Apple or Android mobile device. In researching it, I discovered that the company also...

https://www.lawnext.com/2013/03/convert-to-and-from-pdf-on-your-mobile-device.html

Can an iPhone app improve your legal writing? Kathleen Vinson thinks so. A professor of legal writing at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Vinson has developed iWrite Legal, a free iPhone ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2013/03/can-an-iphone-app-improve-your-legal-writing.html

When it comes to law practice management technology, recent years have seen the launch of a bevy of cloud-based platforms. Clio was the first of these, followed by a number of products that inclu...

https://www.lawnext.com/2013/02/iorion-brings-mobile-practice-management-to-midsized-firms.html

More than a quarter of the nation’s top 200 law firms now have mobile websites, an increase of 46% from last year. This is the finding of the Second Annual AmLaw 200 and Global 100 Mobile Web ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/12/54-of-amlaw-200-firms-have-mobile-sites.html

The legal directory and Q&A forum Avvo today introduced Avvo Lawyers, an app  that allows lawyers to follow and answer consumer legal questions directly from their iPhones or iPads. Using the ap...

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/11/avvo-unveils-iphone-and-ipad-app-for-lawyers.html

Here is an interesting iteration of the standard law dictionary — one designed specifically to help legal professionals who are not native speakers of English. Available as an app for iPhone an...

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/09/an-ios-law-dictionary-for-english-as-a-second-language.html

A Massachusetts divorce lawyer yesterday launched Massachusetts Divorce, an app for the iPhone and iPad that can be used to calculate alimony and child support under Massachusetts law and then ge...

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/09/for-divorce-in-mass-theres-an-app-for-that.html

Rocket Matter, a cloud-based legal billing and law practice management application, today launched an iPhone app to facilitate mobile access to the application’s core functions. The app runs on...

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/09/rocket-matter-launches-iphone-app.html

In 1926, the editor of the Harvard Law Review, Erwin Griswold, produced a pamphlet covering proper forms of legal citation. Originally published with a brown cover, the cover was changed to blue ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/08/the-bluebook-goes-mobile-plus-five-free-downloads.html

Earlier this month, Thomson Reuters debuted the WestlawNext Android App, providing mobile access to WestlawNext from both Android tablets and smartphones. I was given a limited-time log-in to We...

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/07/hands-on-with-the-westlawnext-android-app.html

Mobile versions of Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law were released this week, compatible with either iOS or Android devices. Both include more than 10,000 legal words and phrases, along with ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/07/merriam-websters-law-dictionary-goes-mobile.html

If you are involved in arbitrations or mediations under the auspices of the American Arbitration Association, whether as an advocate or a neutral, you will want to get the AAA’s new mobile app....

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/07/if-you-do-adr-there-is-now-an-app-for-that.html

Back in January 2010, this blog had an exclusive first look as Fastcase was about to launch its app to let iPhone users research cases and statutes for free, directly on their devices. Later, Fas...

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/06/fastcase-releases-android-version-of-its-free-research-app.html

In January, I wrote here about MyPocketAttorney, a website that lets lawyers build their own smartphone apps using templates designed for law offices and legal professionals. Now there is another...

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/04/build-your-own-law-firm-app-with-barrister-app.html

If you are attending ABA Techshow in Chicago next week, be sure to download the Techshow app for your mobile phone. It is available for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. The app includes a number...

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/03/going-to-techshow-theres-an-app-for-that.html

I’ve written several times about the Fastcase app for the iPhone and iPad, both of which let you research cases and statutes for free directly from your mobile device. This week, Fastcase rolle...

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/02/fastcase-mobile-app-now-syncs-with-desktop.html

I happened across a website called MyPocketAttorney that says it will let lawyers build their own smartphone apps using templates designed for law offices and legal professionals. As of this morn...

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/01/site-lets-lawyers-build-their-own-mobile-apps.html

The Library of Congress unveiled a new app yesterday designed to let you read the Congressional Record on an iPad. Called simply The Congressional Record, the purpose of the new app, as In Custod...

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/01/read-the-congressional-record-on-your-ipad.html

The Legal Services Corporation’s Technology Initiative Grants program held its annual conference last week in Albuquerque. I wasn’t there, but I wish I had been. The conference focused on exp...

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/01/app-will-let-lawyers-pick-pro-bono-cases.html

A new mobile app introduced this week by the New York State Bar Association lets lawyers search and access ethics opinions from their mobile phones. The NYSBA Mobile Ethics App includes the state...

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/01/legal-ethics-to-go-thanks-to-new-bar-app.html

Just last week, someone asked me for a list of my favorite iPhone apps. I get this question a lot, so I thought I’d talk about about a few of my favorite apps. No Angry Birds here. I will restr...

https://www.lawnext.com/2012/01/and-now-for-a-few-of-my-favorite-smartphone-apps.html

Wolfram|Alpha, the “computational knowledge engine,” has released an iPhone and iPad app designed specifically for legal professionals. The Wolfram Lawyer’s Professional Assistant provides...

https://www.lawnext.com/2011/12/wolframalpha-releases-app-to-assist-lawyers.html

A company run by a Texas criminal lawyer has introduced a mobile app designed to enable attorneys to quickly access statutes and case law from the courtroom, the boardroom or wherever they may be...

https://www.lawnext.com/2011/10/the-lawyers-deskbook-goes-mobile.html

A growing number of larger law firms are releasing their own mobile apps. But what about solo and smaller firm lawyers? Last week, Aaron Kelly, a solo who practices Internet law in Scottsdale, Ar...

https://www.lawnext.com/2011/07/even-a-solo-can-have-a-clever-mobile-app.html

Legal research company Fastcase will announce a new utility tomorrow that enables one-click printing of any case from any source on the Web or in any Microsoft Word document. Called Fastcase Clou...

https://www.lawnext.com/2011/07/fastcase-unveils-one-click-printing-of-any-case-from-any-source.html

No, the legal profession is not about to be taken over by automatons carrying briefcases. But an increasing number of lawyers are forsaking their BlackBerrys and iPhones and moving to mobile devi...

https://www.lawnext.com/2011/06/invasion-of-the-android-attorneys.html

For lawyers and law students looking for useful apps for your mobile device, try Mobile Applications for Law Students and Lawyers. Part of the website of the UCLA School of Law library, the site...

https://www.lawnext.com/2011/05/a-compendium-of-apps-for-lawyers-and-law-students.html

I have been a columnist for Law Technology News for so long that my debut may have predated the invention of the Internet. Monica Bay brought me on right after she became editor. Over the years, ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2011/05/law-technology-news-now-on-your-iphone-and-ipad.html

Just last week, I wrote a post about “Benesch Apportunity,” the new iPhone and iPad recruiting app from the law firm Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff. Benesch is but the latest of a gr...

https://www.lawnext.com/2011/05/new-blog-tracks-law-firm-mobile-apps.html

The 165-lawyer law firm Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff has created an iPhone and iPad app that sends out an alert any time a job opens at the firm. The free app, called “Benesch Apportu...

https://www.lawnext.com/2011/05/law-firm-app-alerts-job-seekers-to-openings.html

I’ve been meaning to write a post about iPad 4 Lawyers, the new blog from Tom Mighell, a self-described “technology nut” who is one of the smartest people I know when it comes to the pract...

https://www.lawnext.com/2011/05/a-ipad-for-lawyers-twofer-new-blog-and-new-app.html

For workers who wonder whether their employers are paying them what the law requires, the enforcement tool they need may be right in their pockets. The U.S. Department of Labor has created a free...

https://www.lawnext.com/2011/05/looking-to-sue-for-unpaid-wages-now-theres-an-app-for-that.html

If you are a lawyer who uses an iPad, here are two blogs — one new and one not-so-new —  that can help you make better use of it and keep up with the latest applications: iPadmania is a new ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2011/03/two-sites-of-interest-to-ipad-loving-lawyers.html

A new website provides a searchable database of mobile apps for law and lawyers, You can use it to find apps compatible with any mobile device, whether you use an iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, BlackB...

https://www.lawnext.com/2011/03/new-site-provides-database-of-mobile-apps-for-law.html

I wrote here in October about the launch of Lexis Advance for Solos, the LexisNexis flat-rate legal research platform for one- and two-lawyer firms. This week, Lexis rolled out a new app that al...

https://www.lawnext.com/2011/02/lexis-advance-now-has-an-iphone-app.html

For an update on this post, see: Update on iPleading: It’s Been Fixed. iPleading is billed as an iPhone and iPad app that lets lawyers create “impressive pleadings with astounding ease.” Th...

https://www.lawnext.com/2011/01/iphone-pleadings-app-doesnt-work-at-least-yet.html

An iPad equipped with the right software could be a powerful tool in the courtroom, given its portability and ease of use. A new iPad app, TrialPad, is specifically designed for use in the court...

https://www.lawnext.com/2010/12/an-ipad-app-for-courtroom-presentations.html

If you find yourself in the unfortunate position of being fired or laid off from your job and in need of legal advice, there is an app for that — but only if you are in the United Kingdom. The ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2010/10/fired-and-need-legal-advice-theres-an-app-for-that.html

Want to track product recall alerts on your Android phone? Need to find the nearest U.S. embassy as you travel in a foreign country? Can’t wait until you’re back in your office to get the la...

https://www.lawnext.com/2010/09/the-federal-governments-very-own-app-store.html

A recently released iPhone and iPad app designed for bankruptcy lawyers, Bankruptcy II, describes itself as a “complete reference for the working bankruptcy attorney.” It is an overstatement...

https://www.lawnext.com/2010/09/a-handy-app-for-bankruptcy-lawyers.html

I wrote last May about Apptorney IP, an app that facilitated patent and trademark searching on an iPhone by providing direct links to the appropriate sections of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Off...

https://www.lawnext.com/2010/08/an-app-for-searching-patents-trademarks.html

Looking for a lawyer in Latvia? Need an accountant in Australia? Well, you guessed it, there’s an app for that. The MSI Global Alliance, an international association of 250 independent law and ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2010/08/an-iphone-app-for-finding-lawyers-worldwide.html

As I said here last week, Fastcase is preparing to launch an iPad version of its popular iPhone app. The iPhone app, which I first previewed in January, last week was named 2010 New Product of th...

https://www.lawnext.com/2010/07/preview-of-fastcases-app-for-the-ipad.html

At least I can claim you read about it here first. The Fastcase iPhone app has been selected by the American Association of Law Libraries as 2010 New Product of the Year.  This is the app that l...

https://www.lawnext.com/2010/07/legal-app-honored-as-product-of-the-year.html

Following on the heels of Morrison & Foerster and its launch of an iPhone app in March, the Boston-based AmLaw 200 firm Goulston & Storrs this week came out with an iPhone app of its own. While t...

https://www.lawnext.com/2010/06/another-large-firm-unveils-an-iphone-app.html

If you’re married to your iPhone but not so sure about your spouse, then DivorceApps.com may have just what you need. It is developing a series of iPhone apps designed for people who are consid...

https://www.lawnext.com/2010/06/getting-divorced-now-there-are-apps-even-for-that.html

In January, I wrote a post about BarMax CA, a full-fledged preparation course for the California bar exam, delivered entirely on the iPhone. Today, an Ohio company, Supreme Bar Review, announced ...

https://www.lawnext.com/2010/06/another-iphone-app-for-bar-exam-prep.html

Now intellectual property lawyers can search and file patents and trademarks, research IP law, and follow IP blogs, all from their iPhone. The new app, Apptorney: IP, released this week, is desig...

https://www.lawnext.com/2010/05/an-iphone-app-for-ip-lawyers.html

Here is the perfect app for the mobile Supreme Court scholar or for any student of constitutional law: PocketJustice. The app turns your iPhone into a portable repository of Supreme Court jurispr...

https://www.lawnext.com/2010/05/carry-the-supreme-court-on-your-iphone.html

Never again be without a legal dictionary. West today announced the release of an application that puts Black’s Law Dictionary on the iPhone and iPod touch. The app features the most recent 8th...

https://www.lawnext.com/2009/04/now-on-iphone-blacks-law-dictionary.html

I mentioned in this March 17 post that I’d been interviewed by Connecticut Law Tribune reporter Tom Scheffey for his article, Duby-ous News?, about the controversy surrounding a law firm’s st...

https://www.lawnext.com/2008/03/even-more-on-duby-ous-firm-video.html