There’s an app for everything these days, and legal matters are no exception. Mobile apps can help those who are dealing with legal matters on a day-to-day basis. These are the 10 best applications for lawyers, law students, and other legal professionals.
1. Fastcase (free for iPhone)
Fastcase functions as a mobile legal library, allowing you to search for cases and statutes from all over the United States, including federal cases, all searchable by keyword. Although the basic version of the app is free, some extra features can be purchased.
2. JuryPad ($19.99 for iPhone and iPad)
An extremely helpful application that aids lawyers in selecting juries. It easily allows you to keep notes on potential jurors, view jury pool demographics, and track peremptory challenges. If you’d rather not always work on your iPad, you can easily transfer your information from the iPad to a computer.
3. The Law Guide (free for Android)
This app is perfect for law students. It has an excellent legal dictionary and FAQ so you can quickly look up any of those terms you can’t quite place. It also has several job-hunting options, including the ability to upload your resume to its job search database.
4. LawStack (free for iPhone)
Another excellent legal library application, LawStack allows you to view a wide variety of federal rules and procedure. One of the best features of this particular app is that any enactment it lists also has its date listed beside it so you can easily find the most up-to-date rulings.
5. TimeClock ($3.99 for Android)
For those who have found a job in the legal field, this app helps you easily keep track of billable hours for your clients. The app can calculate your earnings based on the hourly rate you set and export those hours and earnings to a timesheet for invoice purposes.
6. Notability ($1.99 for iPhone)
One of the best note-taking apps. You can type, dictate, or handwrite your notes and the iPad will keep track of them all. You can also use this to annotate PDFs, making it easier to do research for your legal cases.
7. RDM+ Remote Desktop Management ($4.99 for Android)
With so many aspects of the legal field going digital, it’s vital to have access to your information at all times. Install this on both your computer and your phone, and you can connect to your home computer from your smartphone, accessing whatever you need to.
8. PocketJustice (limited version free for iPhone and Android, full version $4.99)
PocketJustice is a legal library app specializing in Supreme Court cases. Both case information and audio are available. The limited version just provides the top 100 cases, while the full version gives you access to all of them.
9. Kaplan (free for iPhone)
A flashcard-based app to help law students study for the bar. It comes loaded with dictionaries and flashcards for terms, concepts and definitions related to constitutional law, criminal law, contracts, and the many other topics covered by the bar exam.
10. Cam Scanner (free for iPhone and Android)
This app works as a quick document scanner. Just take a picture of the document you need with your phone camera, and the app will convert it to a PDF, allowing you to tag, store, or upload your document.
