Arbitration & Mediation

Got a new iPhone for the holidays? give yourself lawbox for the new year!

By Victoria Pynchon

LawBox for iPhone.

Carry your codes; the New York Times; ABA feeds; and, your favorite law blogs in your pocket along with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Evidence. Not only is all of this free, if you're a legal blogger, you're highly likely to see your own blog here (copyright violation? perhaps but LawBox links to my negotiation blog after the first paragraph so it's just another way for lawyers to be introduced to my blog, which is fine with me).

If you want the essential codes from your own State (mine, the Cal. Rules of Civil Procedure; the Evidence Code; and, the Civil Code) you'll have to pay 99 cents for each. Imagine yourself saying to the Judge - "if you'll allow it, your Honor, I'm sure I can answer your question if I can just consult the Civil Code on my iPhone"!

I often wish I had these Codes when mediating a case, particularly when we're writing up the settlement agreement and I want to make sure "deal points" are enforceable if the parties resist my strong recommendation that we draw the complete agreement up then and there. See Evid. Code section 1123 and Code of Civil Procedure 664.6; I can get them for you in just a second; they're on my iPhone!

For a kid who spent her early years Shepardizing by the book (red hardbound; yellow paper supplement; red paper supplement & newsprint supplement) having the LawBox and Lexis/Nexis Shepardizing on my iPhone is sort of like watching John Glenn launched into space on the television in the elementary school cafeteria. Sooooooooo cooooooooolllllllllll.

But seriously, I like the layout; the ease of access; the way in which the legal blogs are categorized; and, most of all, the fact that I can turn to the law or news I want without typing something into google, WestLaw or Lexis/Nexis.

Check it out!

Full post as published by Settle It Now Negotiation Blog on January 01, 2010 (boomark / email).