60 Apps in 60 Minutes for Judges

Last week, I teamed up with Judge Dan Hinde from Harris County, TX (269th Civil Court) to give a presentation at the Texas Center for the Judiciary‘s Annual Conference.  We did a “60 Apps in 60 Minutes” session recommending apps that might be of interest to Texas judges, but most of the apps that we discussed would be of interest to others as well so I thought it might be useful to share the list on iPhone J.D.  Here are the apps that we recommended:

  1. Judicial Education Conference [the conference app]
    Judicial Education Conference - CrowdCompass, Inc.
  2. GoodReader
    GoodReader for iPad - Good.iWare Ltd.
  3. Dropbox
    Dropbox - Dropbox
  4. Adobe Reader
    Adobe Reader - Adobe Systems Incorporated
  5. PDFpen
    PDFpen - SmileOnMyMac, LLC
  6. PDF Expert
    PDF Expert - Fill forms, annotate PDFs - Readdle
  7. Documents to Go
    Documents To Go® - Office Suite - DataViz, Inc.
  8. WordPerfect Viewer
    WordPerfect Viewer for the iPhone - Corel Corporation
  9. Office2 HD
    Office² HD - Byte²
  10. Free WiFi Finder
    Free Wi-Fi Finder - JiWire Inc.
  11. Picture it Settled Lite
    Picture It Settled - Picture It Settled, LLC
  12. GoodNotes
    GoodNotes - Notes & PDF - Time Base Technology Limited
  13. NotesPlus
    Notes Plus - Viet Tran
  14. SoundHound
    SoundHound - SoundHound, Inc.
  15. Reminders [built in to the iPhone/iPad]
  16. Texas Monthly BBQ Finder
    Texas Monthly BBQ Finder - Emmis Communications
  17. Open Table
    OpenTable - OpenTable, Inc.
  18. Launch Center Pro
    Launch Center Pro - App Cubby
  19. LogMeIn
    LogMeIn - LogMeIn, Inc.
  20. Groups
    Groups: SMS, Mail and Manage Contacts - Guided Ways Technologies Ltd
  21. The Weather Channel
    The Weather Channel® for iPad - The Weather Channel Interactive
  22. Hurricane HD
    Hurricane HD - Kitty Code
  23. NOAA Hi-Def Radar
    NOAA Hi-Def Radar - GeoTerrestrial, Inc
  24. Dark Sky
    Dark Sky - Weather Radar, Hyperlocal Forecasts, and Storm Alerts - Jackadam
  25. Pastebot
    Pastebot — Command Copy & Paste - Tapbots
  26. Scanner Pro
    Scanner Pro by Readdle - Readdle
  27. RedLaser
    RedLaser Barcode Scanner and QR Code Reader - eBay Inc.
  28. ABBYY Business Card Reader
    ABBYY Business Card Reader - ABBYY
  29. CardMunch
    CardMunch - Business Card Reader by LinkedIn - LinkedIn Corporation
  30. GateGuru
    GateGuru, Airport Info & Flight Status - Mobility Apps LLC
  31. Hipmunk
    Hipmunk Flight & Hotel Search - Hipmunk
  32. WestlawNext
    WestlawNext - West, a Thomson Reuters business
  33. Lexis Advance HD
    Lexis Advance™ HD - LexisNexis
  34. Fastcase
    Fastcase - Fastcase
  35. Black’s Law Dictionary
    Black's Law Dictionary, 9th Edition - West, a Thomson Reuters business
  36. Barron’s Law Dictionary
    Barron's Law Dictionary - A Useful Dictionary of legal terms for attorneys, students and paralegals - Prelude Mobile, Inc.
  37. Texas Bar Legal
    Texas Bar Legal - State Bar of Texas Computer & Technology Section - LawBox LLC
  38. TDCLA
    TCDLA - Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association - LawBox LLC
  39. Rulebook
    rulebook™ - Ready Reference Apps, LLC
  40. Book of Jargon
    The Book of Jargon® - Corporate and Bank Finance - Latham & Watkins LLP
  41. Congress
    Congress - Cohen Research Group
    / Congress+
    Congress+ - Cohen Research Group
    / CongressPro
    CongressPro - Cohen Research Group
  42. Atomic Web Browser
    Atomic Web Browser - Full Screen Tabbed Browser w/ Download Manager & Dropbox - RichTech
  43. Chase Mobile
    Chase Mobile (SM) - JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  44. Eye Glasses
    Eye Glasses - Freeverse, Inc.
  45. Dragon Dictation
    Dragon Dictation - Nuance Communications
  46. Digits
    Digits Calculator for iPad + iPhone - Shift
  47. Netflix
    Netflix - Netflix, Inc.
  48. DaysFrom
    DaysFrom Date Calculator - QD Ideas, LLC
  49. Court Days Pro
    Court Days Pro - Rules-based Calendaring for La... - Law On My Phone
  50. Find My iPhone
    Find My iPhone - Apple
  51. Tweetbot
    Tweetbot for Twitter (iPad) - Tapbots
  52. Keynote
    Keynote - Apple
  53. Keynote Remote
    Keynote Remote - Apple
  54. iPhoto
    iPhoto - Apple
  55. Photoshop Touch
    Adobe Photoshop Touch - Adobe Systems Incorporated
  56. Pro HDR
    Pro HDR - eyeApps LLC
  57. AutoStitch Panorama
    AutoStitch Panorama - Cloudburst Research
  58. Google Translate
    Google Translate - Google, Inc.
  59. Calvetica
    Calvetica Calendar - Mysterious Trousers, LLC
  60. Facebook
    Facebook - Facebook, Inc.
  61. Skype
    Skype for iPad - Skype Communications S.a.r.l

After our presentation, Judge Charles Stephens from New Braunfels, TX shared with me an interesting way that he uses his iPad.  He has an account with eFax, which gives him a fax number that sends PDF versions of FAXs to his email.  When officers need warrants signed after hours, they can fax the warrant to his eFax number, he can then review the warrant on his iPad, if it is appropriate he can sign and date it using one of the iPad PDF programs, and then he can e-mail the signed document back to eFax so that the officer receives a signed fax and can execute the warrant.  It’s nice to know that an iPad can help the cause of justice, even after hours.

[UPDATE:  After reading the last paragraph, Judge Steve Rosen from the Seattle Municipal Court wrote me to say that he does something similar, but he cuts out the fax portion.  He writes:  “At
3 am (or whenever), if an officer needs a warrant, she emails a .pdf of
the warrant to my work email.  She then calls my cell phone to wake me
up.  Using my iPad, I then log in to my work email and review the search
warrant application.  If I agree to issue the warrant, I use an app
called Sign-N-Send to annotate the warrant, cross out parts I don’t
agree with if necessary, and then sign it.  I then email it back to the
officer.  Using this system, our officers get very fast turnaround on
warrants (there is no delay for sending and receiving faxes), and I
never even have to get out of bed.”]

3 thoughts on “60 Apps in 60 Minutes for Judges”

  1. This is a great list for judges. It seems that quite a bit of focus has been placed on apps for attorneys throughout the web. It’s nice to see a list specifically made for judges as well.

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