The best apps for law students

A selection of the handiest tools for your revision, admin and research

On the CaseandHalsbury’s Legal Terms–freeBoth apps from legal publishers LesixNexis allow students to accessdigests of more than 300,000 cases and 3,500 definitions of legal terms and phrases. On the Case allows you to search for cases by name, citation or keyword, and gives each case a status signal indicating how judges have treated them. To access login details, students should download the LexisLibrary apps on the iPhone, open the app and click on the “academic” link. After completing the registration form using only your academic email address, an email will be sent to your university email with login details. But beware: both are currently only available on iPhone.

CamScannerorTiny Scanner–freeThese document-scanning apps pretty much do what they say on thetin, allowing you to quickly scan documents and handwritten notes into PDF images.

Dictamus– £12.99
This app will save the hand-ache of scribbling away in lectures by turning your phone into a dictaphone.

RefME– Free
This referencing tool is a useful shortcut to gathering all those footnotes, endnotes and citations for essays, allowing you to scan the barcodes from the journals or booksfrom which you are quoting.

Evernote– free
You can use Evernote to jot down your thoughts, ideas, images, to-do lists, and makes them available and searchable across all of your devices.

Citrix QuickEdit–free
Lets you create documents, spreadsheets and presentations and work on all of your Microsoft Office and PDF files. You can access them anywhere, with cloud storage support for ShareFile, DropBox, Box, Google and others.DropboxorGoogle Drive– freeStore all your notes, documents and pictures on the cloud, and access them from any of your devices.

News apps – free
Keeping up to speed with legal newsas well as general current affairs is essential for developing your criticaland analytical thinking skills – but sifting through it all to find the good stuff can be time-consuming. Trade magazines and online legal titles arehighly recommended for more focused news: