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Review – “Handy guide & reference for legal terms on the go.”
App developer: Alex Tretyakov
Having a handy reference guide can be helpful on a range of subjects. Especially when you’re looking for a reference to some of the most complicated terms and words, as are common in the legal field.
Legal terminology and phrases can not only be come of the most complicated to remember, but also some of the most difficult to understand, so having a reference for specific legal terms with you could definitely come in handy, especially if you work as anything to do with the law process, and of course (and I see this possibly as the largest demographic and target audience of this App) students.
While I can’t speak to the quality of the terms and definitions (I’m not going to cross reference to make sure that the definitions are sound – from my limited knowledge, they seemed just fine), I will say that this seems to be a very comprehensive App – the App Description on the App Store boasts of over 1500 words and phrases included.
Within the App itself you can search for any term and see the definition on the right – you also have the option to Bookmark any of the terms you choose and view them on the Bookmarks page.
There are two things that I wish were different about this App. One is that the Search Field is physically located above the ‘A’ Section, so if you’re scrolling down around ‘S’ and want to search, you have to manually scroll all of the way back up to ‘A’ to get your search field back. I wish it were fixed, at the top of this column.
The other option I’d like to see (and ideally this could be turned on/off) is the ability to search within definitions. Such as, if you search for ‘jail’ it will bring up all words that include the word ‘jail’ in the definition. I know this would be more difficult to implement, but I think it would increase the usability of this App greatly. There is also no option to email definitions or export in any way – however the definitions can be copied to clipboard so at least that is something.
However, at this price point I rarely expect much, espcially from iPad Apps. This app does w
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