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"Our Favorite iPhone Apps for Lawyers--ABA TECHSHOW 2009 Edition"

Posted by Reid Trautz: "What happens when four lawyers from diverse practices and backgrounds get together to discuss how each uses their iPhone to improve their productivity and reduce a few of life's frustrations?  You get a great list of iPhone apps that are sure to help you too! Apple reports over 25,000 apps are now available via the iTunes store, making it a daunting task to sift through to find the best. So here are some of the favorite picks from David Sparks of the MacSparky website, Ben Stevens of The Mac Lawyer website and Reid Trautz of Reid My Blog! (who are presenting on this topic at this year's TECHSHOW, which is taking place right now in Chicago) and Jeff Richardson who runs iPhone J.D., a site dedicated to attorneys using iPhones.

Productivity

People (free), Note2Self ($2.99), reQall (Free), Evernote (Free), OmniFocus ($19.99), Things ($9.99), and Calc-12E ($15.99) [READ ABOUT ALL OF THE APPS IN THIS POST AT THE SOURCE SITE LISTED BELOW]

Email

EasyWriter ($2.99), Sideways ($1.99), iSignature ($0.99), and gMail (free)

Legal Research

Cliff Maier Attorney Reference Apps ($0.99 to $8.99), The Law Pod reference apps ($0.99), Manual of the United States of America ($0.99), and Wikipanion (free)

Time & Billing

Time tracking apps (free to $59.99), DateCalcPro ($2.99), and DaysFrom ($0.99)

File Sharing

Air Sharing ($4.99), FileMagnet ($4.99), MobileFiles 2.0 ($3.99) and MobileFiles Pro ($9.99)

Travel

Google Maps (included): The purpose of this article is to cover apps that you can add to your iPhone, but this built-in app is so good that we couldn't resist mentioning it.  The interactive features of Google Maps via the iPhone is worth the price of the phone service alone. David often use the Google Locator feature to find himself on the map, and then search for nearby restaurants; with a couple quick taps on the screen, you are talking to the restaurant to check table availability. Works for myriad businesses.

Google Mobile App (free), Say Where (free), Where To? ($2.99), Google Earth (Free)

Various weather apps:  It is always nice to know the weather when you are traveling.  Jeff likes the free apps AccuWeather, WeatherBug and The Weather Channel apps, but perhaps Jeff's favorite is not an app at all -- Weather Underground has a fabulous iPhone-formatted version of its website at i.wund.com.

Social Networking

Twitterific (free), TwitterFon (free), and Facebook for iPhone (free)

News

NYTimes (free), USA Today (free), ABA Journal (free)

Fun and Relaxation

[Various apps - see original post]

Of course, with more apps coming on the market everyday and the new iPhone 3.0 just around the corner, we'll probably be back soon with more ideas for you, your iPhone, and your law practice."

The active links are available at the source site listed below.

Source: Reid My Blog, 2 April 2009

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on April 28, 2009 (boomark / email).