Barrister App: Build Your Law Firm App

Barrister App is an app created specifically for the legal profession. The app comes with a CMS (content management system) and allows users to customize the display of the app, manage information, and send notifications to clients. Available on iPhone, Android and Blackberry.

Here's how it works:

When you purchase the Barrister App for your firm, you get access to a back-end CMS that walks you through the set up. Set up is easy and straightforward.
Your app will include these components:

• Who We Are. This is where the app lists your attorneys, their contact information and their practice areas.
• Where We Are. This shows your office or offices on Google Maps.
• What We Do. The list of your practice areas.
• Notifications. As noted above, you can sent notifications to clients — anything from appointment reminders to firm news.
• My Notes. Users can make and store notes here.
• My Profile. The client inputs information here.

 Costs?
The cost of this is based on the size of your firm:

• 1-9 lawyers: $395.
• 10-25 lawyers: $995.
• 26-99 lawyers: $1,995.
• 100+ lawyers: $2,995.

GPO Makes Avaiable the Federal Budget for the 1st Time as an App

The GPO released a mobile app for the FY 2013 budget of the U.S. Government. The app will provide users access to text and images of the budget, including messages of the President, information on the President's priorities, and overviews organized by the agency. In addition, the app is free to the public and be downloaded with the following mobile devices: iOS 4.3 and above, Android 2.2 and above, and Blackberry OS version 6.0 and above. For more information about the GPO App, read here.

NTSB calls for national ban

The National Transportation Safety Board is calling for a national ban on all cell phone use while driving. Theres' an article in Time about this, plus dicussion of several studies on talking/texting while driving.

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Mobil blog

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PUSH Legal

PUSH Legal a library of statutes and cases in a mobile app. Available on iPhone, Android, Blackberry & iPad.

Juror Tweets, Facebook Updates Now a Crime Under CA Law - Mobile Phones / Smartphones - Technologist

Juror Tweets, Facebook Updates Now a Crime Under CA Law - Mobile Phones / Smartphones - Technologist

If you're in California, leave that smartphone at home!

Responses to Mistrial by iPhone

Letters to the Editor of the New York Times regarding "When Jurors Seek Evidence Online".

Original article blogged on Lex Scripta on March 17.

Mistrials by technology

Mistrial by iPhone: Juries’ Web Research Upends Trials
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
New York Times
Published: March 17, 2009

Article discussing recent cases that ended in mistrail when jurors used iPhones, Blackberries, or home computers to research case-related people, laws, events, or to blog to tweet during or immediately after trials.

Blackberries and deposition ethics

Read on - this article is funny, but brings up very interesting points about whether or not it is ethical for attorneys to check/reply to emails during depositions.

Whacked Out on BlackBerrys in Depositions

By Jerold S. Solovy and Robert L. Byman
The National Law Journal
June 19, 2008

...Our BlackBerrys keep us connected. We are in a service business and these wonderful devices let us render service to our clients in real time, every
waking moment. But here is a caution -- when we use them at a deposition to
check and return and compose e-mails, we may be violating ethical rules. ...
(cont)

Or why you need to be off the reference desk once in a while

Saving Good Judgment From the BlackBerry Culture
Gregory S. Gallopoulos
Special to Law.com
August 20, 2007

Very good essay for attorneys and for librarians who work for attorneys: How the quick responses that are expected in a technology age can work against the ability to provide the very best work for the client.

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