Firefox For Your iPhone

Firefox announced that Firefox Home, a free application, is now available for download on your iPhone or iPod touch.

Fastcase iPhone App

Fastcase is offering an app for your iPhone. Fastcase is a web-based legal research service that includes primary law from all 50 states, deep federal coverage going back to 1 U.S. 1, 1 F.2d 1, 1 F.Supp. 1, and 1 B.R. 1, cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and constitutions, deep newspaper archive, legal forms, one-stop PACER search of federal filings, people finders, and business intelligence tools.

Fastcase for the iPhone is the largest free law library on the iPhone and it uses smart search technology from Fastcase's fully-featured Web-based legal research application, which allows you to sort the most relevant results to the top of the list, customize and re-sort search results, and integrate citation analysis tools right into the results list.

Bar Exam Prep iPhone App

Via the Robert Ambrogi's Law Sites, the currently most expensive iPhone application (at $999.99) is the complete California Bar Exam Preparation available via an iPhone Application.

The app is over 1 gigabyte in size, which is the largest application I’ve ever seen. It includes thousands of pages of materials as well as hundreds of hours of audio lectures. It’s all the information you could ever want for the two-month course. And again, it can be done all on your iPhone. That said, if you do want some more tangible paperwork for certain sections, BarMax will send you that electronically as well. ~ TechCrunch

Lexis App For iPhone

Via Lexis announcement, Lexis has released its first application called "Get Cases and Shepardize." This free application allows users to retrieve cases from Lexis and Shepardize them. Users must currently have a Lexis account.

The application allows users to:

• Find and review case instantly by reading the Case Brief - an overview of the issues, rules, and reasoning (written by LexisNexis experts) just by entering its citation
• Get an at-a-glance indication of how closely they need to evaluate the case with Shepard's Signal Indicators
• Get an overview of a case's legal treatment up front by viewing the Shepard's Summary, right at the top of your Shepard's reports

Also check out Legal Geekery for a review, WisBlawg, Robert Ambrogi's Law Sites, or AppStore.

Barron's Law Dictionary for iPhone

Via iPhone J.D. Lawyers Using iPhone, an interesting post titled Review: Barron's Law Dictionary for iPhone features a comparative review of three legal dictionaries applications available for iPhone; Black's Law Dictionary, Nolo's Plain English Legal Dictionary, and Barron's Law Dictionary.

Black's Law Dictionary contains over 43,000 definitions and costs $49.99. Nolo's Plain English Law Dictionary contains contains over 3,000 definitions written in plain English and is free.

The Barron's law Dictionary application fits neatly between these two offerings. Like the Nolo dictionary, the Barron's dictionary contains over 3,000 terms. Like Black's, the Barron's dictionary has more sophisticated definitions, although in my random check they seem to use less legalese than Black's. And the price of $14.99 fits between the other two dictionaries.

Check it out for yourself. The mentioned review features comparative iPhone screenshots as well. Do you have an experience with any and/or all? Share your comments!

Nolo's Law Dictionary for iPhone

Via WisBlawg.com, Nolo has developed a free law dictionary for iPhones. It is available via iTunes and according to the iTunes description,

[i]t contains nearly 4000 legal terms defined in everyday, understandable language.

The dictionary is further described,

You'll find both the legal standards--Latin terms, courtroom jargon, contract basics--and newly minted terms that reflect the ever changing language of the law today. What does it mean to get "dooced"? Do you need that "pre-dup"? Had a run-in with a "patent troll" lately? Nolo is committed to finding and defining the latest twists in legal language that have entered our daily conversations--important words not found in other legal dictionaries. Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary is both authoritative and friendly, but it is not your grandfather's law dictionary.

Read the full description.

Black's Law Dictionary on iPhone

Via Robert Ambrogi's LawSites, West announced the release of an application that allows Black's Law Dictionary to be available on iPhone and iPod Touch. The application features the most recent 8th edition of the dictionary. The Black's Law application is available for purchase through the iPhone Apple Store for $49.99.

See the You Tube Video!

Twitter via iPhone When on Jury Leads to Mistrial?

Via Citizen Media Law Project, David Artia posted Mistrial by iPhone, New Technologies Present Challenges in the Courtroom.

The New York Times reports that a juror in Arkansas used Twitter to send updates during a civil trial that resulted in a $12.6 million judgment against the defendant, which may be overturned as a result. The Times also reported that on Monday of this week, defense lawyers in the federal corruption trial of a former Pennsylvania state senator, Vincent Fumo, demanded that the judge declare a mistrial after a juror posted updates concerning the case on Facebook and via Twitter.

Apple Registers Patent Application Pointing to iPhone

As posted on Legal Blog Watch, iPhone users who want to check their e-mail, surf the web, send a tweet, or just text, while standing outside in the cold weather, might be interested in a new Apple patent application, published January 1, 2009, which reveals "an idea for winter gloves with special iPhone-responsive fingertips for the thumb, index and middle fingers." This High Tactility Glove System is a system used to operate electronic device.

The glove system may include an inner liner and an outer shell. The liner may be formed from any suitable material, including a material that is thin, electrically conductive, has low thermal conductivity, and/or has an "anti-sticky" finish. The outer shell may include at least one aperture through which the inner liner may extend to operate the input mechanism of an electronic device (e.g., on at least one finger tip).

And One More Post For the iPhone Users

As posted on the Wired blog, you can now read books on your iPhone. Take a look at their post here, and see for yourself.

Printing things out in order to read them away from your PC is so last century. Today, devices like the iPhone offer perfectly readable displays, and bookmarking articles to read on tiny mobile screens is no problem thanks to apps like Instapaper.

Enjoy your reading and let us know how you like it.

The Law Pod

The Law Pod is a legal resource for iPhone and iPod Touch. Law Pod's web applications can be quickly and easily installed on your iPhone or iPod Touch by following the directions on the law pod home page. The Law Pod currently features the following web applications:

• Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
• Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
• Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
• Federal Rules of Evidence
• Constitution & Amendments
• Federal Rules of Bankruptcy

As mentioned on the website, the following are the upcoming Law Pod web applications:

• Offline Versions Through the App Store
• Model Penal Code
• Title 28
• And Many More!

Check it out right here!