There’s an App for That Posted By Daniel Kaiser, Esq. on June 21, 2010
There is soon to be an app for just about everything. Thankfully, the legal community isn’t about to be left behind. Looking for a few apps that can actually make you smarter? Here are a few in no particular order that have caught my attention over the past month.
LawStack
This stack is much more fun than the law stacks you remember from law school, and the app gives you more than simply a touch of sophistication in your iPhone. The free version comes pre-loaded with a nicely indexed collection including the US Constitution, the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and the Federal Rules of Evidence. You can add federal and local statutes to your stack via the app store, but those come along with an additional fee.
PocketJustice
Just like LawStack, this app avoids the use of the space bar. Also like LawStack it’s free! PocketJustice brings you concise abstracts of US Supreme Court decisions along with voting alignments and personal bios for all of the current and former Supreme Court Justices. The free version comes loaded with the top 100 constitutional law cases complete with media content including oral arguments. As always, you can pay for more if you want to: the current price for the entire Supreme Court constitutional law canon is $4.99.
BarMax
Then there’s the not-so-free end of the spectrum. I can’t easily think of a new law school grad who hasn’t shelled out for a complete bar review course. That hasn’t gone unnoticed. This team of Harvard lawyers means it when they say “Max.” So far as I’m aware, this app is the biggest (over a gigabyte of lectures, outlines and checklists) and the first to hit the four-figure price tag—One Thousand Dollars. Well, $999.. But hey, who’s counting? Especially when the other major bar prep courses will run you four times that amount? Even still, there’s something nice about the word “free”. BarMax thought of that.. and is offering a free MPRE app to get you hooked.
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