Washington, DC --(January 29, 2010)-- Legal publisher Fastcase announced today the release of the world's first mobile
legal research app, now available for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch from Apple's App Store.
Fastcase was the first company to offer
a legal research app, and its app remains the largest searchable law library available in the mobile market.
Why would someone like me, a law librarian who is quite obviously pretty darn geeky, be nervous, worried and puzzled by
a legal research app list.
The legal research app they have created is built upon the AI capabilities of IBM's Watson as well as voice recognition.
Recently, one of our customers shared a story about how she used
the legal research app on her smartphone, effectively illustrating the value of on - demand, mobile legal research in critical moments.
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.
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 cases were donated to CourtListener by LawBox, the company behind the LawBox
legal research app for iOS devices.
Recognizing the rising popularity of the platform, Fastcase recently released an Android version of
its legal research app in the Google Play Store.
It was only a few weeks ago when Fastcase announced that they'd finally brought their free
legal research app to Android.
In fact, the top
legal research app for Android users didn't include any case law and only offered extremely limited access to state and federal statutes.
Carole Levitt, co-author of Internet Legal Research on a Budget, notes, «while litigators can use Tom's book to learn how to use the iPad, they can use my book, co-published with Judy Davis, to learn which
legal research apps will help them find the case that the opposing counsel brought up and caught them short by.»
And be on the lookout for Part 2 covering free (non-subscription)
legal research apps.
Not exact matches
The
legal certificate was issued by Court Baliff Maitre Aric Albou, the same judicial officer who carried out
research into the
app's user profiles.
What if you could review a dictionary of
legal terms or
research statutes of limitations from one iPhone
app?
You can also cut corners on your
legal research by using websites such as Google Scholar Legal (free), Fastcase (free via iPad / iPhone App and through many state bar associations), and Jenkins Law Library ($ 155 a year); or by hitting the books by visiting a local law lib
legal research by using websites such as Google Scholar
Legal (free), Fastcase (free via iPad / iPhone App and through many state bar associations), and Jenkins Law Library ($ 155 a year); or by hitting the books by visiting a local law lib
Legal (free), Fastcase (free via iPad / iPhone
App and through many state bar associations), and Jenkins Law Library ($ 155 a year); or by hitting the books by visiting a local law library.
Although there are mobile - optimized sites, there are no native
apps for
legal research on Android.
Still, if your office uses Lexis for
legal research, you'll want to download this
app for your iPad.
Westlaw Next If your office uses West for
legal research, then this
app is essential.
The Westlaw
app allows you to access your
legal research wherever you are.
Box will integrate with a range of practice management, time and billing,
legal research, productivity and trial
apps.
The functions that such
apps perform also vary widely:
apps can help individuals find a lawyer, create their own
legal documents, gather evidence against authorities (for example, record police encounters or track heating violations by landlords), do their own
legal research or better understand court or tribunal processes.
It turns out that «modernizing»
legal research instruction has little to do with databases, gadgets, or mobile
apps.
iAnnotate, the
app that allows you to read, annotate and share your PDF files, is a valuable tool when reviewing documents and
legal research on your iPad.
For a free
app,
Legal Newsance has lofty goals, promising to deliver curated legal news across a range of topics, legal research, job listings and on - demand
Legal Newsance has lofty goals, promising to deliver curated
legal news across a range of topics, legal research, job listings and on - demand
legal news across a range of topics,
legal research, job listings and on - demand
legal research, job listings and on - demand CLE.
But it is a well - chosen and diverse selection, where you can find
apps for everything from
legal research to wine
research, which pretty much covers all the bases.
Two experts in
legal research have developed an
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Fastcase was the first to make
legal research open and online and continues to run a successful company providing free law on the web and through the mobile
app.
When I looked at the numbers for my most - popular posts of the years, the leader by a wide margin was a keyboard designed for lawyers, followed by a voice
app for keeping time and a new
legal research service.
But the focus of this post isn't Fastcase's traditional
legal research plans — it's the mobile
app.
Why you want it: This is a can't - miss
app — not only because it allows you to conduct
legal research on the go using your iPad or iPhone — but because the
app is free.
And speaking of advancements in
legal research, we now have the Fastcase
app, which is free and, even if you don't have a Fastcase subscription, you can use it to conduct
research using your mobile device no matter where you happen to be.
Other lawyer - focused
apps specifically help with trial preparation and
legal research.
This free
app is available for iPhones, iPads and Android devices and allows you to conduct free
legal research on the fly, even if you don't have a Fastcase subscription.
Some of the guests profiled in our
App Friday feature cite Fastcase app as an indispensable productivity tool when they are in the courtroom and need access to quick legal resear
App Friday feature cite Fastcase
app as an indispensable productivity tool when they are in the courtroom and need access to quick legal resear
app as an indispensable productivity tool when they are in the courtroom and need access to quick
legal research.
The
app, which had been previously only available on iPad and iPhone, allows attorneys to perform free
legal research through Fastcase's state and federal law library.
Other iPad
apps that DeVenny uses for work include the free Fastcase
app for
legal research, Penultimate (currently.99) for taking quick handwritten notes with a stylus, the free Days Between
app for calculating dates and Time Value ($ 3.99) for calculating the present value of a case.
But even if you don't subscribe to Fastcase, make sure to download their mobile
app, since it provides free access to Fastcase on your mobile phone, allowing you to conduct
legal research on the go.
This is a common feature lawyers are already using on their smartphone and tablets, but these
apps will give you even more
legal research power in the palm of your hand!
«If an
app does not seem to be of
legal research quality, it might not be included in our database, but other than that, we are trying to include whatever we can find that we think a lawyer might want to access.»
There are plenty of Android
apps for lawyers including
apps for case management, billing, trial preparation, and
legal research.
With the analytics of Docket Alarm, secondary treatises from Wolters Kluwer,
legal news from LexBlog, and our innovative
research platform and mobile
apps, Fastcase is a complete solution for
legal researchers.»
Legal Research Amongst the many free
apps we previously reviewed here, we included FastCase, Lexis Advance HD and Westlaw Next.
What if you could review a dictionary of
legal terms,
research statutes of limitations, look up information about visa types, investigate crime rates and history for specific crimes, as well as state and national average comparisons, get closing cost estimates, and information on square footage, home sales price, and utility prices from one iPhone
app?
NextLaw Labs has already invested in ROSS, an IBM - Watson - powered
legal adviser
app designed to make
legal research more efficient, and Appirio, a matter management platform that provides smart analytics and real - time transparency on
legal fees.
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).
Whether you need an
app to check your deposition calendar, take notes, conduct
legal research, review realtime at the deposition, make video clips, manage your exhibits, or present at trial — these
apps are sure to help simplify your workday.
According to the ABA's 2012
Legal Technology Survey Report, 17 % of responding lawyers in private practice regularly use mobile
research apps on their smartphones.
The
app was developed by Ruth Bird, law librarian at the Bodleian Law Library at the University of Oxford in the U.K., and Natalie Wieland,
legal research skills adviser at the University of Melbourne Law School in Australia.
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.