Many of those people are on the Android platform, so here is a list of useful free and low - cost
legal apps for Android smartphones.
The diversity
of legal apps also creates challenges to regulation.
So there you have it — a list of some of the newer
legal apps available to assist lawyers in the day - to - day practice of law.
So let there be no doubt, there are firms already leveraging both inherent superior client service and
legal apps not only to extend but to enhance their profitability.
Who doesn't love a
good legal app — especially one that can help you manage and grow your social media presence?
Even so, you may find in many cases that cloud -
based legal apps will save you money in the long run compared to traditional desktop and server - based legal software.
For some practitioners, all these
new legal apps have created a new problem, legal consumers are coming to them with specific questions and half done legal work.
He also applies his technology knowledge to
develop legal apps, online legal tools, and other legal resources for the public.
We'll first focus on
specifically legal apps, and then continue with more general apps that lawyers are also using to increase their productivity.
For members of the public who do
use legal apps, there are concerns in relation to quality as well as privacy and security.
These other sites tend to
group legal apps under categories such as «reference» or «business,» but not under a separate «law» category.
Legal Apps for law firms allow attorneys to turn lost time into profitable time, while outside of the office.
There does not appear, however, to be any guidance specifically tailored for the development
of legal apps to be used by the public.
Bob Ambrogi: Speaking of that app, and I have written favorably about your app and I know that for the last three years of the ABA's Legal Technology Survey Report your app has been rated by lawyers as the most popular
legal app in that survey, but still, it's what, five, six years old at this point.
The annual ABA Tech Survey has pretty consistently ranked Fastcase as the most
popular legal app for lawyers (of any kind, not just for legal research).
According to the 2013 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report, the most popular
legal app by a long shot is Fastcase.
And, as I mentioned before, check out my post from last July for a list of many of the
other legal apps available.
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.
There are equally significant reasons to believe that
many legal app users won't be in a position to sufficiently vet the quality of the information they are receiving through apps.
In the spring 2017, Knomos also acted as an advisor to student
building legal apps to improve access to justice by helping leading organizations better serve their clients.
While Android devices don't have as many specific
legal apps as Apple ones do, there are still a lot worth checking out.
Another example of technology replacing entry level attorneys is described by Greg Lambert in a post at 3 Geeks and a Law blog, where we learn that young law students are even
creating legal apps which would automate certain aspects of case intake and analysis, thus effectively replacing their future functions as new law graduates — an unfortunate, and somewhat ironic, result indeed.
There are a minimal number of Canadian
legal apps so far; Wilson and LaFleur have produced an app for the iPad that allows users to access a small number of French language titles.
[Update: After I posted this, PUSH Legal revised the FAQ to say it is «the
only legal app that ties key cases to the rules and statutes they interpret.»]
The company also said that it has another app, Lawstack, that it describes as its «
flagship legal app.»
In the next few months until the iPad is released, I'll discuss how
existing legal apps might change for the iPad platform and what new apps may develop.»
Exceptions include, as noted above,
when legal apps deliver legal services and are thus regulated by law societies or when apps fall under the umbrella of privacy legislation.
On this edition of The Paralegal Voice, Vicki Voisin invites Kathy Miller, ACP, CAS and Karen Trumpower, ACP to
discuss legal apps for paralegals.
The month of May saw the debut of two legal technology blogs, one
covering legal apps and another for Mac - using lawyers.
Although there are a lot of very
helpful legal apps out there for consumers, it can make a lawyer's life more complicated to have to learn a new piece of software just to please a single client.
Also, some apps that aren't
necessarily legal apps, like Doc Scan (one of my personal favorites), can be very helpful.
In some ways that's bad, as naïve consumers think
cheap legal apps take the place of advice from a qualified attorney.
But over at the iBraryGuy blog, Stosh Jonjak, a research services librarian with Reed Smith, decided to analyze the popularity of
legal apps from a different angle — their rankings by downloads and gross earnings.
For the past six years, Georgetown University Law Center in Washington has held Iron Tech Lawyer, a competition where teams of students compete to develop
legal apps before showing them off to a panel of judges.
, both aimed at supporting developers in building the next great
innovative legal app that connects with Clio.
ROSS is not likely to be the
last legal app that uses cognitive computing technology.
«The Blackberry accounts for more than 75 % of
legal app pageviews,» Panvista writes in its white paper, «which means that while Blackberries are more difficult to develop for, the return is well worth the extra development challenges.»
Winner of the prestigious American Association of Law Libraries (New Product) Award, Fastcase for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone is used by more attorneys than any other
legal app according to the ABA.
Even the best
legal app in the world will not approach Angry Birds level downloads).
In July, Jenny Zook and Kris Turner, librarians in the Law Library, were featured in a Wisconsin Law Journal article, «The
Best Legal Apps for 2014.»
For the third year running, the Fastcase legal research app is the most popular
legal app among lawyers, according to the 2015 edition of the annual Legal Technology Survey Report compiled by the American Bar Association's Legal Technology Resource Center.
Students will learn the entrepreneurial experience firsthand to better serve tomorrow's clients by experiencing tech entrepreneurship themselves — conceiving, designing, and
building legal apps.
In this guest post, Leslie Krick introduces 5 top, must - have Android
legal apps for tracking time, digital dictation and even job hunting.
We have already gotten to the point where there are so
many legal apps that a useful book (and this one is!)