Reviews

A Law Student’s Preliminary Thoughts on the Lexis Advance User Experience

by Joshua Auriemma November 5, 2011 Reviews

This is a republished guest post by Scott Kuhagen. Scott is a third year law student at Temple University Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia. You can find his blog at scottkuhagen.com. I’ve been tinkering some with Lexis Advance, the updated version of the Lexis legal database, and thought I’d offer some initial thoughts on [...]

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Typography for Lawyers Brings Legal Geekery a New Design

by Joshua Auriemma November 3, 2011 Reviews
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Meet Matthew Butterick’s Equity font. You should be reading this article right now in said font unless I’ve messed something up, or you’re using a seriously outdated browser. I had the privilege of beta testing the font for Matthew, and I’m a fan (obviously, or I wouldn’t have embedded it into this blog). I used [...]

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A Review of Fastcase’s Cloud Printing Suite, Part II: The Word Ribbon

by Joshua Auriemma November 2, 2011 Reviews
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We got our hands on a new feature from the Fastcase Cloud Printing Suite recently that we’ve been looking forward to sharing with our readers. In our last review of the Fastcase Cloud Printing Suite, I mentioned that I was looking forward to experiencing the Cloud Printing integration with Microsoft Word. This feature takes your [...]

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A Review of Fastcase’s Cloud Printing Suite, Part I

by Joshua Auriemma August 19, 2011 Reviews
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I’ve had a while now to consider and use the pre-release alpha version of the new Fastcase Cloud Printing suite of applications. For the uninitiated, here’s a quick run down of the “what” and “why:” depending on their Wexis plan, firms can be charged specifically for printing1 cases. In a fairly genius effort to capitalize [...]

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Review of Banner & Witcoff Patent and Trademark iPhone App

by Joshua Auriemma August 13, 2010 Legal

Just a few short weeks ago, I was podcasting with Laura and complaining about the PTO’s awful search engine and database front-end. If you’ve ever had to navigate the PTO website, I already know that you’re in agreement.  It should be no surprise then that I’m a huge advocate of avoiding the PTO website like [...]

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Review of Fastcase for iPad

by Joshua Auriemma July 6, 2010 Reviews

It has been about half a year since Fastcase released their fantastic iPhone app and became the first company to offer (free) fully-functional, mobile, native legal research.  I was fortunate to get an advance copy of the upcoming Fastcase iPad app, and I’m just as impressed this time around. Legal research on the iPad could [...]

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Considering Mind Mapping for the Bar Exam?

by Joshua Auriemma June 25, 2010 Reviews

The July bar exam is quickly approaching and I’ve been trying to figure out how I’m going to keep this seemingly infinite amount of information floating around my head long enough to, you know, become a lawyer. In doing some research, I happened across Tony Buzan’s, The Mind Map Book.  I’d heard about mind mapping [...]

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Review: Black’s Law Dictionary for iPad and iPhone

by Joshua Auriemma May 20, 2010 Reviews

(You can find the Black’s Law Dictionary app here.) Laura made fun of me on the podcast this week because I own a leather bound edition of Black’s Law Dictionary. It was a gift from my parents, but as I understand it, it costs something on the order of $140.  This app isn’t inexpensive either, [...]

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Using an iPad in Lieu of a Laptop?

by Joshua Auriemma May 12, 2010 Reviews

Since my first post on using an iPad in my Advocacy II trial, law students and lawyers have asked me in person, via twitter, and through comments, whether they can (or should) use an iPad as a replacement laptop. The preliminary answer, if your attention span is as short as mine, is probably not (yet). [...]

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