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iPhone and iPad for Lawyers: Apps You Need to be Using
Summary:
iPhone and iPad – nifty tech toys or useful resources for you in your law practice? Perhaps you already use these applications efficiently in your practice. Maybe you’re among thousands who are trying to decide whether using these devices would be a worthwhile investment. From either perspective, join in the discussion and learn more about which apps are popular with lawyers and how to best use… [more]

Presenters:
Finis Price
Finis R. Price, III has successfully assisted thousands of injured clients recover the compensation they deserve. Through the effective use of technology, the Law Offices of Finis Price provides clients with a unique experience granting them… [more]

Program Agenda:
5 minutes – Introduction
60 minutes – iPhone and iPad for Lawyers: Apps You Need to be Using Presentation
10 minutes – Live Q&A with the Speaker

How To Attend:
Join the live program from your office, home, or hotel room using a computer for the web portion and telephone for the audio portion. You may ask questions, participate in surveys, and post comments from your computer during the program. You may also invite colleagues to watch the program from a shared computer or projection screen and speakerphone. Please note that credit is only provided to registered attendees participating at their own computer and phone. Simple instructions with a link to the program will be sent when you register.

Credit:
If applicable, you may obtain credit in multiple jurisdictions simultaneously for this program (see pending/approved list below). Registrants in jurisdictions not listed below will receive a Certificate of Attendance that may or may not meet credit requirements in other jurisdictions. Where applicable, credit will be only awarded to a paid registrant attending the live program at their own computer and phone. Please note: CDs may not qualify for credit; please check with your accrediting body to verify.

This program has been approved for or is pending credit in:
AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, IN, KY, LA, MO, MT, NV, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WY

Needless to say, I am extremely honored to be asked to speak at such a prestigious conference and am looking forward to sharing the knowledge I’ve gained in using my iPad and iPhone in my practice. While I have been asked recently by individual practitioners what iPad apps can assist them in their practice, this will be the first time I speak on the iPad since it’s debut and I cannot wait to share my insights.

If you are going to be in Vegas or can make it on August 23, 2010, please come by and say hello.

This episode… we talk about the new iPhone, the iPad and our guest Randy Juip’s conversion of his law firm to Mac

In this episode “iPad, New iPhone and Randy Juip” your hosts Ben Stevens, Finis Price, and our guest, Randy Juip, not only discuss Randy’s conversion of his office to Mac’s, but the upcoming iPhone as well as the iPad.

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We will give a review of FastCase in a few days on our branch-off site, MacEsq.com, in the next few days but U.S. Code doesn’t really need that much explanation as it simply provides the U.S. Code in its entirety. It provides full offline access to the entire U.S. Code so you can search all federal statutes by keyword or citation even when offline. You can even bookmark cites for future reference which is handy given the shear breadth of the information available in this app. This isn’t the most up to date version of the U.S. Code, but is still well worth the price…FREE.

MILO Chat – Episode 17 – “iPhone Security Revisited”
This episode… iPhone Security Revisited

Our format has been streamlined, and we hope that our listeners enjoy the improvements. Please let us know your thoughts on the new format. In this episode “iPhone Security Revisited” your hosts Ben Stevens, Finis Price, and our guest, Grant Griffiths, not only discuss that issue, but also examines the updates to the MacBook Pros and our first-hand impressions of the iPad.

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During our visit to Techshow, my good friend Ben Stevens (The Mac Lawyer) and I had the opportunity to hear a number of absolutely ridiculous and absurd comments made by IT consultants as to why attorneys should not use the iPhone for their legal practice.  What was implied was that security on mobile phones is a tricky business and that for a nominal fee those very same consultants could come in and ‘fix your problems’.  After my heated comments on Twitter during the 60 Tips in 60 Minutes, Ben and I decided to post an official response to these baseless assaults on the iPhone on behalf of all Mac using lawyers around the world.

Is the iPhone secure? That question has been hotly debated in legal circles since its release. To date, the loudest replies have been by those shouting “No” (see here, here, and here) but does that make that answer true? Ben Stevens of The Mac Lawyer and Finis Price of TechnoEsq now enter the fray to try to set the record straight.

The anti-iPhone crowd makes the following three types of claims to support their position that the iPhone is the “the most insecure phone we’ve ever seen” and that “the words iPhone and security do not belong in the same sentence”: (1) it’s too easy to jailbreak; (2) there are encryption weaknesses; and (3) it stores screenshots.

Finis is both a practicing lawyer and computer forensics expert, and he recently participated in the Droid v. iPhone debate in the ABA Journal. With these impressive credentials, he responds to each of those allegations as follows:

The fact is that many so called “smart”phones can be cracked and the data stolen. Of course, the same can be said of laptops, and how many lawyers have theirs encrypted? One key difference with the iPhone is that it allows you to remotely wipe the email in the event that is ever lost. Starting back with the iPhone 2.1, it is possible to have the iPhone wipe its data after ten invalid tries, with each attempt being longer and longer. How many attorneys can do that with their laptops? Further, if your corporate email is set up correctly, your mail disappears if your password expires. While this can be annoying, it is more secure than the BlackBerry, which stores the email on the device itself. Also, the iPhone holds only 150 emails at most, which while annoying is more secure than the BlackBerry, which stores much more. Therefore, even if you use POP email, you are only risking 150 emails.

The allegation that the iPhone has encryption weaknesses rings hollow. There are about 100 security apps in the App Store which allow you to encrypt the iPhone to protect it in case it is lost or stolen. You can even add biometric security to the iPhone through apps if you so desire. The fact is that since the 3G-S version was introduced two years ago, the iPhone has been as secure, if not more secure, than any laptop – period.

I believe that the argument about storing screenshots is outright silly. Yes, the iPhone gives you the ability to store screenshots in your photo album, but you have to work a little by pressing a couple of buttons every time to make one. Despite the clamoring made by some, this is not done automatically. Moreover, the only way you would not know about this happening was if you never looked at your photos. I will acknowledge that I have accidentally done this on my home page, but I have never done in by accident within an app.

Is anything 100% secure? Of course not. Law offices are subject to being broken into and/or having wandering eyes (such as cleaning crews) access client information. Legal pads and paper files get lost or misplaced, and how secure is a briefcase to someone who wants to get inside of it? One could argue that even the information stored inside the lawyers’ brains is not secure. Give Jack Bauer ten minutes and I guarantee that he would get information out of the most ethical, security conscious attorney in the world.

All of this might make one wonder why iPhones are being targeted and unfairly branded as being “unsafe.” A skilled forensic expert gets physical access to a laptop computer, he can extract all sorts of information, even that which was thought to have been deleted. Yet we find it odd that we don’t hear anyone claiming that it is unethical for an attorney to use a laptop, as some have stated about the iPhone. One cannot help but wonder whether those are merely the ramblings of fear-mongering PC-centric dinosaurs or those interested in selling us something?

Just as you would verify information a used car salesman tells you about the history of a car before you buy it, attorneys should equally question IT consultants making sweeping statements – ESPECIALLY when those IT consultants have every vested interest in making you believe what they are telling you.  I am not saying this was the case at TechShow but it can’t hurt to explore the REAL facts behind what you are being told.

UPDATE- Be sure to check out the comments to this post as Tom Mighell has made some great points.

This episode… Apple iPad Special – Part 2

Hosted by: Victor Medina, Finis Price, and Ben Stevens. We discuss the iPad right after orders were allowed.

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This episode… Apple iPad Special – Part 1

Hosted by: Victor Medina, Finis Price, Adam Greivell and Ben Stevens. We discuss the iPad right after its announcement.

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However, the fact that you can’t use the Internet while you’re on the phone is the biggest drawback for the Droid and kills it in the debate from the beginning.  Any attorney used to using a web-based case management program, accessing their Windows server across the Internet, or just accessing the Net for any other reason while on the phone would be seriously hindered by the Droid. Everyone seems to say the Droid can do so much more than the iPhone, but as I say in the article, “There are more than 70,000 apps the iPhone has that the Droid doesn’t. That amounts to 70,000 more ways you can use your iPhone.” [emphasis added].

This isn’t even getting into the usability issues with the Droid when compared to the iPhone. The strongest argument for the iPhone is because of Apple’s controls over the device – the user experience. Almost all apps on the iPhone behave the same, can be found in seconds and are intuitive.  Compare this with the Droid where I literally took two minutes trying to find the calendar app.  Nothing explains this as well as my point in the article:

…my 4-year-old nephew knows how to use my iPhone to pull up Thomas the Tank Engine movies on YouTube just by watching me search for them. When deciding on a phone—or anything a lawyer is going to be using throughout the day—the most important factor is how hard it is to use the device. The iPhone is the epitome of intuitiveness.

Case in point: I have a colleague who is, to be polite, less than technologically inclined. He has been a Verizon user for almost 10 years and didn’t want to switch, so he bought a Droid. At lunch a few weeks later, some number-crunching came up and I asked him to use his Droid’s calculator. After a few seconds he sheepishly told me he didn’t know where the calculator was. Turns out he didn’t know where the majority of his apps were; they were simply too difficult to find. I handed him my iPhone and within a few seconds he had my calculator open and was done. He was also able to immediately find and open any application I asked him to—something he was unable to do on his 2-month-old Droid.

This example is not an exaggeration and I would tell you the attorney’s name for verification if it weren’t for my not wanting to embarrass him, but he truly is the epitome of what is wrong with the Droid.  If I can’t unlock it and get to what I want in a few seconds, it is worthless when compared to the iPhone.

Be sure to read the full article and if you see me at the ABA Techshow, feel free to hit me over the head with your Droid if you disagree with me.