Legal Technology Resources at Hofstra Law

Free
iPhone app - 1Password remembers all your passwords for you, and keeps them safe and secure behind the one password that only you know.

Free
View, annotate and sign PDFs.

Free
iOS app - Turns your device into a powerful portable PDF scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR). Use this mobile document scanner to turn anything — receipts, notes, documents, pictures, business cards, whiteboards — into an Adobe PDF with content you can reuse from each PDF and photo scan.

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Negotiation app which aims to help you make settlement offers as a defense attorney, or settlement demands as a plaintiff attorney, in a mediation or other settlement negotiation

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The official Black’s Law Dictionary, 10th Edition.

Free
Encrypt your files before uploading them to Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and many other providers.

Free basic and Pay premium
IPhone and Android Scanner app. More than just taking a picture – Enhance, crop, collaborate, OCR reader, etc.

Subsrciption required
Practice management app, including time and billing management.

Free
A free iPad/iPhone app produced by the Library of Congress. View scans of the Congressional Record by Date.

Free basic
Dropbox is a cloud storage solution. You can store files in the cloud and access them from anyplace with an Internet connection.

Free
A unified platform you can use to leverage electronic documents in all the litigation events after eDiscovery, including witness prep sessions, depositions, hearings, mediation, and trial or arbitration.

Free
Evernote organizes your notes into folders and allows you to tag them for easy searching. Evernote notes can include voice memos, images, clipped web articles and file attachments as well as typed and handwritten notes. These notes can be easily searched or turned into presentations. Both free and premium accounts are available.

Free
Fastcase contains cases and statutes from all 50 states and from the federal government. You can search by citation, keyword (in Boolean or natural language), or browse statute collections.

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Allows you to read, edit, and sign PDF documents; view MS Office, TXT, HTML; and much more.

Free
You can sync these apps with your computer and tablet.

Free basic, pay options for multi-user
IPhone/pad and Android password management app. Protect access to all of your programs/apps/databases. Offers secure log-in options and keeps all of your passwords in one convenient place.

Subscription required
Legal Research app

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PDF editing App for IPhone and IPad. Read, Edit, Share, Sign, etc.

Free
Apps like Square allow attorneys to process credit card transactions from mobile devices. Costs vary by transaction, package.

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Time and billing management

Subscription required
Legal Research app