CONFESSIONS OF

AN APPS ADDICT
HOW ONE LAWYER USED APPS TO IMPROVE HER
PRACTICE AND SIMPLIFY HER LIFE
WHAT ARE WE ALL LOOKING FOR?
MORE TIME
MORE MONEY
LESS WORK
BALANCE
EXCELLENT SERVICE!
What we will go over?
 More Greater
Organization Efficiency Less Stress Time& Quality of
Money Life

Calendars
Contacts
To Do Lists
Meetings
Calls
 Documents

How to create and organize them

Apps for the Law Office and
the Law office on the Road
News, Reading, Reference and Utilities
If there is time...Lifestyle timesavers
 Calendars and Contacts and To Dos

Ical, Outlook or google Calendar

Calendar5- works across platforms, todo/ reminders
To do list considerations
One that integrates with my phone, ipad, desktop, watch
Easy to use
How do I input information
Compatible with other apps or programs that you use regularly
Can matters be searched or tagged @5mins
 To Dos/ Reminders continued
What I use: Other suggestions:

Amazon Echo Alexa App Remember the Milk

access from desktop and phone
Notes, Notability, Awesome Note
Separate To Do lists
ToDoist Free
Evernote Wunderlist
Phone/ Tablet/ computer
Can be shared
 Meetings
Considerations Who will you be meeting with?
What do you wish to do? Clients

Attend Others in your company in person?

Present With others have ipads or do they

need desktop support
Schedule
 What I use to schedule

Doodle poll- online as well. The problem seems to be that the

app doesn't update and sync with the responses very quickly
Need to Meet- Outlook plug in
Fancy Hands- via email, text, call, or apps.
Purchase, research, forms creations
5 (20 minutes blocks)/ $29.99
 Fancy Hands
- Make appointments/ Coordinate meetings
- Buy gifts
"I have a client who just got a new kitten named Prince. I would like to send him a gift for the kitten. Maybe
something personalized. Could you please research something less than $50. Thank you!"
- Research
"I purchased a Fitbit HR for my mother on August 5, 2016. It has broken. I did not get an extended warranty on it. Can
you please check with fitbit and see what their warranty is and if it cannot be repaired under warranty if they repair
them. Thank you!"

"Below is the itinerary for a trip I am taking with a friend to Iceland. The trip leaves from Baltimore. I live in Orlando.
Will you please check on flights on Southwest Airlines that will allow us to connect with these flights we have already
booked. I have air miles I intend to use on SW. I know that on the way back it may require us to stay the night but I am
not sure."
 Attendance at Meetings
What I use: Others- Attendance only
Zoom meetings Go to meetings - Free
Present
Facetime (video and apple only)
Screen Share
Join Me- Free and you can host up
Video
to 250 people
Free for 1 hour
Skype
 Presentations
Microsoft Word 365
App
Cloud storage
Collaborations are supported
Keynote- apple's presentation software
Teleprompt- Great if you are not using your ipad to
give the presentation. You import your script and it will scroll as
you choose
 Making Calls/ Collaborations
Skype
International calls
Call forwarding
VoIP- Vonage ties in with Clio
Slack- Cloud based team communication and collaboration tool. Groups all
communications on a project in one place. You can IM, email, attach
documents, tag and search across conversations.
Document Creation and
Organization
Create and edit docs
Take Notes
Annotate or create PDF Files
Store and manage files on your tablet or device
 Document Creation
Office 365 - The bomb digity
Documents to Go
Cloud On
Pages

Office 365 provides storage in One Drive and collaboration- each license can be used
by 5 devices
 Note Taking
This is very personal here are some to try
Notes- on ipad which has now expanded
Note Taker - HD
Notability- You can also record the meeting or depo while taking notes with
this one. The app also syncs your notes so you can go back to the exact point
of the recording. You can also email your notes as a PDF.
Penultimate and Noteshelf- allow for notebooks
 PDF Documents
If you are going to practice you are going to need a PDF viewer and annotator.
I use two.
To Read- Perfect Reader
To annotate- PDF Expert
Trying Adobe Sign- send and receive documents
 Storing Documents and
Notes
I use EVERNOTE and Dropbox
Folders, Tags, large learning curve
Book "Evernote for Lawyers"
Scan Snap integration
Other suggestion:
Net Documents- In the future
Good reader
 Apps for the Law Office on
the GO
Making sure you are able to work as easily is the key
HARDWARE HELPS!
Ipad Pro (w/ or w/o pen)
Duet App
Scanner Pro App
Logmein App
 Time and Billing Apps
Probably some of the most important software
Case Management software App may do both
Some others are: ITimeKeep, islips (if you use timeslips)
Billing: Square, Law Pay, Quickbooks (logmein)
Expenses: Expensify- connects to your connect to cc and Bank accounts. It
will create expense reports and will even let you scan receipts and connect
them to the expense report
 Tracking Mileage

MileIQ- Allows you to mileage 40 drives a month for free. Pay and you
get unlimited drives. You can classify business and personal expenses.

IQ Boxy= combines mileage and expense reports

Banking and Credit Card
Apps

Cash
Venmo
Paypal
Square
LawPay
 Litigation Apps
Apps to Prepare for Trial
Court Days Pro- calculate deadlines
IDoc Review- Tag documents that
you review (Privileged, non responsive,
tag elements)
The Deponent- set up outlines for all
witnesses and re-use certain ones
for certain types. Attach docs to Qs
Apps in Trial
TranscriptPad- carry all transcripts in one
place, search, tag, color code issues
Ijuror or Jury Star
TrialPad- Load Doc, images, video, write,
redact, callout certain parts
Similar apps are Exhibit A
and Exhibit View
BT Chat HD/ instead of messaging
 News, Reading, Reference
Flipboard (some use Zite)
Instapaper- This is AWESOME! It takes all of the junk out like advertising
and links and leaves the text so it is easy to read. You can save articles for
later or share them. You can also save them to your evernote account.
Kindle/ iBooks
Fastcase/ WestlawNext/ Lexis/ Lawbox (free fed research)
FedCtRecords-mobile access to pacer
 Utilities
Remote Access- Logmein or GoToMyPC but you have these on your laptop
Jump Desktop - non subscription based (need Google credentials)
Printing- Print and Share Pro- print to any wifi enabled printer
File Storage- Dropbox and Net Documents
Security- Find my Iphone, 1passwordPro
 The secret: Low Overhead
Fancyhands
Thumbtack
Fiverr
Dragon Dictation
 Text Expander

Text expander creates a library

of abbreviated shortcuts that turn into a
library of text. You can use if for things like
your signature block. Just type the
abbreviation and it appears. Your ipad and
phone do this too.
Settings--> General-->Keyboard-->Text
Replacement
 Photography
Besides Snapseed, PhotoStudio and Photogene I use
FaceTune and Visage Lab
Instagram trick
Color Splash
 Miscellaneous
Meditations- Headspace, OMGMeditate
Calculators- Digits (keeps a running tab)
ParkMobile
Unroll me- email sanity!
AppBox Pro
Currency
Calculate days
Magnifying glass
Level
Conversion of units
Sale Prices
 Travel
Tripit
Around Me
Open Table
Tripadvisor
Yelp
Wi-Finder- must download offline
NY subways/ Paris metro
 Shopping
CardStar
Alexa

ShipIt - but I don't think it works in Gainesville

Starbucks