Top iPhone and iPad Apps for Lawyers

TrialPad ($89.99) - TrialPad, a leading trial presentation and legal file management app, is easy, effective and intuitive. It can be used to present and annotate evidence in any trial, hearing or ADR setting.

Exhibit A ($9.99) - Present your key documents, photos and videos in the courtroom or boardroom in a beautiful fullscreen HD display. Presentation tools let you highlight, mark and call-out key sections of your exhibit instantly, in real time. A virtual laser pointer improves visibility as you emphasize your points.

JuryTracker ($4.99) - JuryTracker is a unique jury observation tool that allows the trial attorney, paralegal, jury consultant and client to observe and report on juror behavior in a consistent, concise and effective way.

iJuror ($9.99) - Developed with the help of many attorneys, iJuror is juror selection for the 21st century. Simply tap the seats to add juror information, add notes, and drag-and-drop to choose jurors and alternates, and to dismiss jurors. Configurable for seating arrangements of up to 60 jurors.

Jury Duty ($29.99) - Jury Duty is an innovative app that will give you the control you need to take voir dire to the next level. During voir dire, you have a limited amount of time to get to know the potential jurors. This app helps speed the process, with tools to customize voir dire and capture critical information with seating charts and question lists.

The Deponent App ($9.99) - With this deposition questions and exhibits outline application, attorneys can select from over 150 deposition questions by customizable categories, including admonitions or expert qualifications; organize the order of questions; and customize the questions for their witnesses. Questions can be linked to an exhibit.

iPleading ($9.99) - iPleading allows attorneys, paralegals and law students to easily create litigation documents on their iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. The app helps you bypass time-consuming problems with formatting general office software for use in litigation. The clean, professional-looking app saves time, money and sanity in any law practice.

Mobile Transcript (Free) - Mobile Transcript gives lawyers the opportunity to review deposition and court transcripts, optimized for the iPhone, with various interactive features. Log into this app to view all transcripts for all cases.

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TRIAL AND PRE-TRIAL APPS

Top iPhone and iPad Apps for Lawyers

Fastcase (Free) - The Fastcase app allows subscribers to the legal reference service to search its growing virtual law library on the go, in the palm of their hand—including cases and statutes from all 50 states and the federal government. Search by citation or keyword (in Boolean or natural language), or browse statute collections.

Black's Law Dictionary ($54.99) - For more than a century Black's Law Dictionary® has been the standard for the language of law. Today it's the most widely cited law book in the world. The 9th Edition contains more than 45,000 terms, alternate spellings or equivalent expressions for more than 5,300 terms, and West key numbers.

Law Stack (Free) - A “legal library for your pocket,” Law Stack comes preloaded with the U.S. Constitution, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and much more. Plus, state codes can be added to your “stack” from the apps embedded collections.

LawBox (Free) - This legal reference and search utility features a fast full-text legal search engine with a built-in library. Download additional codes for free as needed, including code packages for Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, Bankruptcy Procedure, Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, Federal Rules of Evidence and more. Hundreds of 2012 codes are available for purchase, including complete state statute sets.

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Court Days Pro ($2.99) - This rules-based legal calendaring app calculates deadlines based on a customizable database of court rules and statutes. Once the rules are set up in the app, calculations are performed, based on a customizable list of court holidays. Choose a trigger event (hearing date) and display a list of all corresponding dates and deadlines. Dates can be added to your device’s native calendar or emailed from the app.

MagicPlan (Free) - This app lets you measure rooms and draws a floor plan just by taking pictures. You can then get the floor plan for exhibits and presentations in PDF, JPG and DXF format, or publish an interactive floor plan on the web. MagicPlan CSI (Free) measures crime scenes with menus that allow you to position and document evidence and create PDFs and graphics to use in reports.

TRIAL AND PRE-TRIAL APPS

LEGAL RESEARCH & REFERENCE APPS

Top iPhone and iPad Apps for Lawyers

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Patents ($2.99) - This app allows patent litigators to enter a patent number and efficiently retrieve U.S. utility patent information—claims, title, inventors and priority information. Patents can be bookmarked and associated with matter names and numbers, and an editable history of patent numbers is maintained. Launch Safari from the app to view the full text of the specification on the USPTO's website.

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ($.99) - This app gives you Fitz Collins Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, on your iDevice—just download and go. It includes full-text search and in-text highlighting, plus the ability to adjust font and font size for easier reading. It also includes Advisory Committee Notes. Note: Also part of the Fitz Collins Law Libe app.

Federal Rules of Evidence ($.99) - This app gives you Fitz Collins Federal Rules of Evidence on your iDevice. Content is fully offline. Includes full-text search and in-text highlighting, plus the ability to adjust font and font size for easier reading. It also includes Advisory Committee Notes. Note: Also part of the Law Libe app.

Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (Free) - The U.S. Manual of Patent Examining Procedure for your pocket. This app is packaged for lightning-fast browsing and search queries. Leave the heavy book at home.

LexisNexis Get Cases (Free) - With this app, you can quickly retrieve cases from Lexis and be confident they are still good law, right from your iPhone. Get on-the-go access to a quality, editorially enhanced case law collection and the premier citation service, Shepard’s, a LexisNexis exclusive.

CA Civil Code ($1.99) - This app provides the full text of the 2012 California State Civil Code in an easily readable and searchable format for your iPhone or iPad. 2012 updates include the ability to adjust font size and a print option.

Legal News Reader ($.99) - Legal News Reader grabs the top stories from the best legal news sites and delivers them to your iPhone, allowing you to keep up with law-related issues and interests in one place.

WestlawNext (Free, requires account) - Access West’s legal research system with WestlawNext features such as WestSearch, KeyCite, Folders, History, document notes and highlighting, browse database content and more. Designed for the iPad multi-touch screen, the app automatically syncs with the WestlawNext website and WestlawNext Mobile. WestlawNext account required.

LEGAL RESEARCH & REFERENCE APPS

Top iPhone and iPad Apps for Lawyers

GoodReader ($4.99) - This super-robust PDF reader for iPad allows you to read virtually anything, anywhere—books, movies, maps, pictures—and mark up PDFs with typewriter text boxes, sticky notes, lines, arrows and freehand drawings. Dropbox integration allows you to manage multiple documents on the go.

Evernote (Free) - Evernote helps you remember anything and everything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put your thoughts and your research all into Evernote and watch as it instantly synchronizes from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac or Windows desktop.

Things ($9.99) - Things is a beautifully focused, intuitive task manager that lets you manage to-dos, notes, due dates and projects. A smart to-do list and the scheduling feature allow you to work effectively and you can sync wirelessly with the desktop version. An update in August 2012 added Things Cloud.

G-Park ($.99) - G-Park is a simple and fast parking application. Just park your car and press the Park Me button, get lost, and then press “Where Did I Park?” to locate your car. Add notes or photos to help you remember, too.

LinkedIn (Free) - LinkedIn puts your professional network just a touch away. Walk into any interview or client meeting with the ability to look up the details and connect with millions of professionals. Get the latest updates and messages from your network and keep them up-to-date with your status in real-time.

Pocket (formerly Read It Later) (Free) - Pocket lets you save web pages to read later, even without an Internet connection. Add to your reading list from any device. Download the complete web page, read at text-only version in Pocket’s Article View, or both.

Billable Hours ($2.99) - Do you waste time trying to remember all the different work you performed for different clients when you record your hours? Billable Hours helps you keep track of the work you do throughout the day, making the process of recording your hours at the end of the day or week much simpler. Export daily or weekly summary reports or raw data via email.

Time Keeper ($4.99) - Time Keeper simplifies the daily task of time tracking by presenting you a list of clients or projects that you want to track time against. The start and stop buttons control the timers and the detail disclosure takes you to a view of times, notes and charge calculations. Additionally, you can specify a per- hour charge for the client.

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PRODUCTIVITY & BUSINESS APPS

Top iPhone and iPad Apps for Lawyers

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PDF Reader Pro ($5.99) - This full-featured app enables you to save documents to PDFs, scan images to PDFs, annotate and sign PDF forms, and download attachments. Includes easy file access (Wi-Fi, USB and cloud storage), outstanding PDF rendering speed and powerful annotation tools.

Quickoffice Pro ($14.99) - This app offers an intuitive and easy-to-use interface for advanced editing of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on your iPhone or iPod Touch, with integrated file management and convenient access to multiple cloud services. (Note: See Quickoffice Pro HD for use on iPad.)

Citrix Receiver (Free, requires server) - If your firm uses Citrix to host applications, you can use the free Citrix Receiver app to check your email, review documents and tune into project or matter dashboards from your iPad or any other device. Your help desk provides the URL to set up Receiver.

Sign It! ($4.99) - Open a document from your iPhone email, Dropbox or third-party app and digitally sign or fill-in forms and annotate email or export updated documents. Includes a PDF editor with form fill, date and time and rubber stamp and signature embedding.

SignNow (Free) - Upload any PDF or Word doc from email, Dropbox or camera, then sign with your finger and email or save the document to a free account. Fill in PDF forms, turn a picture into a PDF, get signatures from clients online or on their mobile device.

iTranslate (Free) and iTranslate+ ($1.99) - These apps translate words, phrases and text. Listen to spoken translations in over 20 languages. Use speech-to-speech translation, or use the swipe gesture to automatically paste and translate text from your clipboard. Send translated text via email or Twitter or simply copy it.

Word Lens ($4.99/dictionary) - This translation app instantly translates printed words using your built-in video camera, in real time. Built-in examples include translations in English, Spanish, French and Italian. (Note: Full-language pair packs must be purchased separately from within the app.) No network required.

Voxer Walkie-Talkie PTT (Free) - This app turns your smartphone into a push-to-talk (PTT) walkie-talkie. Send instant audio, text, photo and location messages to one friend or a group of your friends in real time. Your friends can listen to your message while you talk or check it later.

PRODUCTIVITY & BUSINESS APPS

Notability ($.99) - This note-taking app allows you to take notes the way you like—type, talk or write. It integrates typing, handwriting, PDF annotation, recording and organizing so that you can capture ideas, share insights and present information in one place on your iPad.

Audiotorium ($5.99) - Audiotorium is a great way to record, organize, review and share your audio and text notes from meetings, classes and conferences. With its beautiful interface and unique approach to organizing notes by Category and Subject, you'll always be able to find and share the notes you want, fast.

Dragon Dictation (Free) - Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon NaturallySpeaking that allows you to easily speak and then instantly see your text or email messages.

SpeakWrite (Free) - This app allows you to record, transcribe, dictate with photos and record telephone calls. Record and store audio on your phone or send it as an email. Submit that audio to SpeakWrite to be transcribed. Also, you can take photos with your iPhone, dictate comments, then receive your work back with the text and photos integrated into a single word processing file. Place a call from your iPhone, record the conversation and receive a complete written transcript.

QuickVoice2Text Email (PRO Recorder) ($2.99) This app allows you to send emails using voice and just a few touches (as in no typing). Records for seconds or hours and stores up to 20 MB, so it’s ideal for capturing ideas, voice memos, dictation, "to do" lists, meetings, even entire seminars. New built-in ringtone recording feature lets you produce your own high quality ringtones.

Top iPhone and iPad Apps for Lawyers

PRODUCTIVITY & BUSINESS APPS

PocketCloud Remote Desktop Pro (Free) - A secure, fast way to remotely connect to your Mac or Windows desktop. Use it to build your own secure personal cloud to access files, pictures and applications like Outlook, Word, games or other programs.

mSecure Password Manager ($6.99) - This app offers a convenient way to safeguarding and syncing important information. Ultra-secure encryption is used to protect information such as account numbers, usernames, passwords and more.

NOTE-TAKING AND DICTATION APPS

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