Hi there. My name is Jeff Richardson, and this is my website devoted to lawyers using the iPhone.
I grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, received a B.A. in Political Science with Highest Honors from Emory University and received my J.D. with High Honors from Georgetown University Law Center. I
have been an attorney since 1994, and I practice law in the New Orleans
office of Adams and Reese LLP. My practice areas include appellate litigation and representing
defendants in class actions and complex litigation. I serve on my firm's technology committee and I am also one of the two attorneys in charge of new business acceptance at my firm.
I have been using computers since my parents bought me a Sinclair ZX81 back in 1981, and after that I was an avid user of the Commodore 64. My first Apple computer was a Mac Plus that I bought in college in 1988, and I have been a Mac user ever since. My law firm was one of the last large firms in the country to
use Macs, but like so many other large firms we eventually switched
to Windows because of the limited law office software on the Mac (something that has improved in recent years). I use a Dell laptop at work, and at home
I use a 27" iMac with an Intel Core i5 processor.
I have been searching for the perfect handheld device since the late
1980s. I used to be a big fan of Palm products, and I was happy to
upgrade from my old Sharp organizer to a Palm III in 1998. I then used
a Palm IIIc, a Palm Tugsten T2, then a Palm Treo 650, plus some Blackberries and a Good G100 along the way. I kept using that
Treo long after I was ready to move on mostly because of rumors that
Apple would come out with its own mobile phone. So you can imagine my
excitement when Apple announced the iPhone, soon followed by my despair when I learned that the original version did not support corporate
e-mail. When Apple added that support, I tried to buy an
iPhone 3G the day it was released on July 11, 2008 -- only for my local
AT&T store to run out of stock after just a few people entered the store! My iPhone 3G arrived on July 22, 2008, and now I finally have the device that I have been wanting for 20 years. In 2009, I upgraded to the the iPhone 3GS. I can't wait to see what Apple has in store for us next.
Have a suggestion, comment or question? Send me an e-mail at jeff@iphonejd.com. My Twitter name is @jeffrichardson and I encourage you to follow me there; I don't tweet very often so I won't overwhelm you with traffic, but I do use Twitter occasionally to pass along interesting iPhone-related news and to note when I add a major post to iPhone J.D.
Thanks for reading iPhone J.D., and please let other iPhone users know about this website, especially if they are lawyers.
