Thank you to GoodCase Apps, publisher of the CaseManager apps for the iPad and iPhone, for sponsoring iPhone J.D. CaseManager was created by New York civil rights attorney John Upton as a fast and inexpensive solution for sole practitioners and attorneys with small firms who want to use mobile devices to manage their law practice. The app has a great interface, which I showed off in my September, 2014 post, and you can use the app to keep track of the key information in your cases: events, tasks, contacts, time and expenses, plus the facts, notes and documents unique to each case.
You’ve also been able use CaseManager on a PC for a while now, and this week CaseManager added a Mac version. So now you can work with your data on both your mobile device and your work computer, regardless of whether you use Mac or PC. (Also, I know that some iPhone J.D. readers use an iPad and an Android phone, and for you there is also an Android version of CaseManager.)
Click here to get more information on CaseManager. The iPhone and iPad apps are only $20, and the PC and Mac versions are only $40, so you can be up and running for less than the cost of a single billable hour.
Click here to get CaseManager for iPhone ($19.99): 
Click here to get CaseManager for iPad ($19.99):
Click here for the Mac or PC version ($40.00)
This certainly looks intriguing. However there does not appear to be any way to ‘try before you buy’ — a trial period for the Mac / Windows apps would be good, so that a user can get a feel for all of the small issues that pop up when using this type of software.
Yes. A trial would be good, given ther is not much “help” information that I could find on the Internet.
For example, what happens when you finish/close a case? Is there an archive option? Do you have to keep all cloded cases on your iPad/iPhone or just delete them? If the latter, what happens to all the information?
Note that satisfaction is guaranteed, which means full refund if you are not happy. This is a better offer than a trial period, which sometimes does not offer full access to all of an app’s features and is always limited to a short period. – Tom Parrett, GoodCase Apps, LTD.