I received an email from a West representative the other day calling my attention to the new CLE Mobile iPhone App (as well as letting me know that the West LegalEdcenter is a fan of Legal Geekery — aww, I’m blushing).

Anyway, now that finals are over, I thought now would be the perfect opportunity to check it out.

As you can see, it’s an attractive iPhone app.  The orange textured gradient is very web 2.0. Read the rest of this entry…

For law students and lawyers alike, one thing most of us have in common is that we type way too much.  Another things that we all have in common is that we all tend to type the same, long words, day after day.  That’s why I’m always surprised to see that people are not taking advantage of a feature built right into Microsoft Word to make our lives easier.

It’s sort of a hack, because the AutoCorrect feature is primarily intended to catch misspellings and automatically correct them, but why not use it to your advantage?  It’s fast because you don’t have to run any external software, and it’s easy to set up.

Note: This tutorial was prepared using Word 2007.

Step 1: Open word.  (1) Click on the stupid Windows button on the top left-hand corner, and (2) click on Word Options.

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[Note: This was originally posted at legalgeekery.com]

Admittedly, when I received an email pushing the new LexisNexis iPhone app, my expectations weren’t terribly high.  However, after spending some time with the program, I have been pleasantly surprised.

First and foremost, this is not a replacement for having LexisNexis open in your web browser.  In fact, you won’t be able to research at all.  The purpose of this application is to allow you to read and Shepardize a case when you already know the citation.  If you can come to terms with its limited functionality, the app performs these limited purposes well.

The user interface is very straight-forward, as you can see.  The first screen asks for a cite and you can either pull the case text or perform a basic Shepard’s analysis.

After clicking one of the two buttons, a login screen prompts you to enter your LexisNexis login and password.

I decided to pull up Brown v. Board of Education, and as you can see, the display is about the same as you’re used to seeing when pulling up a case in Lexis.  One major drawback in the display is that there are no clickable hyperlinks in the cases.   Read the rest of this entry…