Mobility Tools and Applications for Lawyers and Law Offices

Among attorneys using the iPad in their law practices, a number of applications (apps) have emerged as the top iPad apps for lawyers. While some use these apps as part of developing a paperless law office, others use them simply as tools for enabling them to do more of their work remotely or while sitting in a courtroom.

Are you using Dropbox in your law practice? If not, it is time you signed up for a free account and tried out their system. Whether being used by lawyers to carry their client files to court as electronic files on an iPad, or merely to share documents among computers and staff, Dropbox is an essential tool for the modern law firm.

Online law practice management software is often called cloud software because the user accesses it on the internet rather than installing it on the law firm's own server. While some lawyers are nervous about entrusting all their client data to a third party who could (at least in theory) vanish and/or go out of business at any time, other...

Legal blogs (blawgs) focused on the iPad in law offices were created immediately upon its release, and the attorneys who use iPads have made great strides in adapting it for use in a legal setting. Some of the best blogs for iPad lawyers include:

Are you considering switching to the iPhone 4 for your law practice? At this point, the iPhone 4 is no longer "new," but a lot of lawyers remain undecided about using it. Read this blog post from the summer of 2010 about the iPhone 4 for some information that is still relevant today on whether this is the best phone for you.

Many lawyers chose the HTC EVO android device rather than the iPhone 4. But is the HTC EVO practical for use in a busy law practice? Read this blog post from the summer of 2010 about the strengths and weaknesses of this impressive device.