Top 10 Hot Law Apps For The iPad
With nearly 45% of US lawyers confirming they will purchase an iPad next year, source Clio, we thought we would take a look at some hot law apps for the iPad, just to convince them to do so. Clio also site the iPhone as the most popular cell phone of choice for lawyers, with over 50% currently owning one, with a further 20% planning on switching to an iPhone next year.
Black’s Law Dictionary, 9th Edition
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. Edited by Bryan A. Garner, the 9th Edition is the most comprehensive law dictionary ever published. It contains more than 45,000 terms, alternate spellings or equivalent expressions for more than 5,300 terms, and West key numbers.
Black’s Law Dictionary 9th Edition for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch is the legal dictionary for how you work today. Hyperlinked cross-references make finding related terms quick and easy. Black’s Law Dictionary 9th Edition for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch even offers audio pronunciations for thousands of hard-to-say legal terms. New features in the 9th edition app include ability to bookmark terms for quick reference and a featured Word of the Day.
$54.99/Download
TX Penal Code 2010 – Texas Law
Note: Updated to reflect changes in the 81st legislative session.
This application provides the full text of the Texas Penal Code in an easily readable and searchable format for your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Product Features:
– The full text of the Texas Penal Code
– Fast full-text search to quickly find sections of interest
– Search within search results to narrow down matches
– Create Bookmarks for even quicker access
– Navigate pages of the code by swiping a finger
– No network connection required
– Very efficient – runs fast, and uses little memory
– Supports Portrait or Landscape mode
– Rotate your iphone/ipod to landscape mode for a larger font display
$5.99/Download
Bar ExamEdge: Criminal Law & Procedure
ExamEdge: Criminal Law & Procedure is one of 6 Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) subject areas from Emanuel Bar Review, a division of Aspen Publishers, that have been reinvented for the iPhone and iPod touch. Each of the MBE subject areas provides individuals who are studying for the Bar Exam a comprehensive set of MBE questions for review and practice.
This ExamEdge: Criminal Law & Procedure application features 33 questions, identical in scope and content to those frequently asked on today’s MBE, to help you efficiently review for the Bar Exam.
$12.99/Download
DOT and Transportation Regulations (Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations – Transportation)
The complete text of Title 49 CFR, Transportation, on your iPhone. Leave the heavy books at home and buy this app now.
Features:
✓ Complete offline access.
✓ Tables and images.
✓ Full-text search.
✓ Header only search option.
✓ Search highlighting.
✓ Context-sensitive search.
✓ Saved search history.
✓ Email sections.
Want to try it for free first? Download CFR Titles 1 and 3 at no cost. We have every CFR Title available on the App Store.
$19.99/Download
LSAT-Review
LSAT-Review The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is an examination in the United States, Canada, and Australia[verification needed] administered by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) for prospective law school candidates. It is designed to assess logical and verbal reasoning skills. This app is designed for students who will take LSAT exam. We hope it is the best tool for you to pass the exam. Features: 1 Hundreds of term definitions are offered 2 Hundreds of phrase and expressions definitions are offered 3 Logic Reasoning problems and other problems are offered in quiz mode 4 Each item is created as an amazing flash card that can help you improve your memory. 5 Global search is available which make you easily find an item. 6 You can add difficult items in to memo. Then you can review it again and again.
$14.99/Download
LAW launcher for iPad
This is a Japanese law book application.
It supports Japanese only.
$9.99/Download
Copyright Legal Coach
Copyright Legal Coach will help you understand the basics of registering a federal copyright for your creativity.
View a guide to the U.S. copyright system, full statutes (Title 17 of the U.S. Code), and rules from the Code of Federal Regulations (Title 37).
The guide is broken down into categories for an overview, different types of registration, what cannot be copyrighed, application guidelines, submission, fair use, fees, infringement, and more.
The C.F.R. are detailed rules for the statutes. For example, 17 USC 408 specifies that the applicant shall deposit "in the case of an unpublished work, one complete copy". 37 CFR 202.20 provides specific requirements. If the original material is a three-dimensional hologram (sample scenario), the applicant must submit "precise instructions for displaying the image fixed in the hologram" and "photographs or other identifying material … clearly showing the displayed image".
Provisions from Title 18 of the U.S. Code are also included to describe criminal infringement of copyrighted material.
$0.99/Download
iLawLibrary
The Federal Rules wherever you have your iPad. From the folks who brought you the highly acclaimed series of law apps for your iPhone and iPod Touch, now you can have the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, and Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure all available with no network connection required.
Searchable, viewable hierarchically or rule by rule, bookmarkable … all the features you’ve come to love in our iPhone apps, but optimized for the iPad.
$6.99/Download
Federal Rules of Evidence
Designed especially for the iPad, this app includes the current text of the Federal Rules of Evidence through the date of their last amendment, December 1, 2008.
Search the Federal Rules of Evidence in three different ways:
* Drill down through the table of contents.
* Search by keyword or keyphrase.
* Page through the rules, using either arrow keys or swiping with your finger.
$6.99/Download