January’s Tech Tips Focuses on courtroom and trial technology but many of these sites are valuable for ALL lawyers.

Court Technology and Trial Presentation Blawg – It features articles, reviews and news of interest to lawyers and other legal professionals. Although focuses on courtroom and litigation, this is an excellent blawg for all attorneys to keep up with what is happening with the courts which can affect all firms.  It is written by Ted Brooks, a trial presentation consultant.

12 Questions to Ask When Hiring a Trial Graphics Consultant – While this is the blog for The Litigation Consulting Report, whether your firm is considering trial graphics or already working with one, these are important questions to ask.

ABA Legal Tech Resource Center – This site provides independent reviews of all types of technology and has a fairly updated reviews and comparison chart for litigation support software.
NOTE: The ABA LTRC is valuable for reviews and information for all types of legal technology.

What Will be Happening in 2012 in E-Discovery Technology – Law.com’s Legal Technology News interviewed the editorial board to hear what they see coming in 2012. 
NOTE: Legal Technology News is an excellent site for all things legal tech.

iPad APPS for Litigation and Trial

The i-Pad can be a great tool for lawyers.  Here are some apps that are geared to use by litigators or in the courtroom.  Reviews for many of these apps can be found at some of the sites listed above.  Other excellent sites for reviews of i-Pad apps for attorneys are:

For assistance with depositions:
The Deponent App - $9.99 – is a deposition and exhibit app
The iPleading App - $4.99 - allows attorneys, paralegals, and law students to easily create litigation documents on their iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.
Mobile Transcript App – Free - Review deposition and court transcripts optimized for the iPhone and iPad

For assistance with selecting juries:
Jury Tracker - $4.99
Jury Duty - $29.99
iJuror - $9.99

For trial presentation, the premier app is Trial Pad at $89.99.  While you may consider this to be expensive, it was named top new product on 2011 by TechnoLawyer.
TrialPad and the new TranscriptPad from LitSoftware has a YouTube site with video tutorials.
You can also follow them on Twitter

Helpful Sites For Lawyers by Lawyers about Using iPads
TabletLegal by Josh Barrett
iPad for Lawyers by Tom Mighell
iPadEsq by Finis Price
iPhoneJD by Jeff Richardson (now includes iPad)

WANT MORE TECH HELP?

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