Being a paralegal in today’s fast-paced world can be quite the challenge. For that matter, being a legal professional of any capacity today can be quite the calling. For those seeking to be and those already there, here are some amazingly useful iPhone apps, especially for legal professionals.
Featured Programs
1. Fastcase
Fastcase is an intuitive, utilitarian app that provides users complete access to the Fastcase law research system and law library. Access is free and unlimited. Those needing to find and single-out cases, precedents, statutes, and other judicial events can find great use in Fastcase.
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2. Dropbox
For all of the document and file-sharing that must take place within a typical law office, there is Dropbox. Dropbox is a complete file-sharing service, with members starting with 2GB of free, cloud, file storage. Whether it’s a video, picture, sound file, or document, Dropbox is simple, quick, and cost-effective.
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3. Evernote
Evernote is a great, all-around productivity app, perfect for the busy, legal professional. Create a note, write a to-do list, record a message, then share it with others or access it from other devices. Evernote provides a reliable share system and still continues to be a free app.
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4. My Legal Projects
My Legal Projects, by West, provides a uniquely helpful case-by-case management system. Input your information and stay organized with everything you have going on within each and every case. In addition to personal organization, sharing case files with peers is easy and quick.
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5. Agenda Maker
Have you ever felt like you could use a little extra help organizing a specific agenda for a conversation, a meeting, or other upcoming event? Agenda Maker is a great, digital assistant that organizes and helps you create and maintain agendas for just about anything. Color-code organization, calendar tools, brainstorm forums, and more await the serious agenda-maker.
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6. Osborn’s Concise Law Dictionary
Osborn’s Concise Law Dictionary is a complete digital resource for all terms relevant to English and European Law. Over 4,700 legal references as well as the intuitive browse and search system make Osborn’s a year-after-year winner with legal professionals of all kinds.
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7. GoodReader
It is typically essential that the modern legal pro have an adequate document reading program. In addition to being a superb, consistently top-rated document reader, GoodReader provides advanced document annotation tools as well. Not much is left to be desired by this quality reader app for iPhone.
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8. GoToMeeting
Attending meetings is not always easy for everyone to do. But with Citrix’s GoToMeeting, you can attend a meeting from anywhere via your iPhone. Schedule meetings, make changes, onscreen brainstorm with digital whiteboard, and much more with this complete, high-quality, on-the-go meeting app.
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9. Minibooks for Freshbooks
Time-tracking can be really tough to accomplish when there is so much more to get done simultaneously. With Minibooks for Freshbooks, manage clients, time-track individual actions, invoice, and more. Anyone looking for a more organized approach to the finite details of billing and costs, this app is great.
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10. JotNot Scanner Pro
MobiTech 3000 LLC created a real hit with its JotNot Scanner Pro app. Install this app and enjoy the ability to endlessly scan and upload documents in PDF format. Scanning is done via the iPhone camera hardware and is remarkably clear and convenient.