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Lawyers Lag Behind Business World in Utilizing the iPad

By Bruce Carton

I wrote back in April 2010 about how trial lawyers were beginning to integrate the iPad into their trial preparations and presentations to juries. A post yesterday on Tablet Legal explores some recent research on the impact of the iPad in the business world and how the findings might apply to law firms more generally. As discussed on The Unofficial Apple Weblog, a new Forrester report finds that: 1. The iPad is beginning to displace the traditional laptop, particularly among those who use a laptop primarily for email and web-based communications. Tablet Legal writes that there is not much evidence that this is similarly occurring in the legal world so far, which is "surprising considering the typical short list of lawyer computing needs: reading, writing, email, calendar, contacts, internet. All of these are handled well by the iPad." 2. The iPad is replacing paper. Forrester found that "wherever people would usually carry around stacks of paper or files, particularly in medical and pharmaceutical industries, the iPad is now the preferred choice." Tablet Legal writes that this trend also does not seem to have taken hold in the legal world. Many lawyers still "feel they can only edit or review a...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on October 29, 2010 (boomark / email).