But this week, I had with me at the podium the briefs, my one sheet of argument notes, and my iPad, with the 6 or 7 most likely items I might want to refer to open and easily tabbed between. Pre-iPad, I would have schlepped the notebook or two with me to Daytona, trying to juggle all of that paper as I reviewed and prepared and even as I approached the podium - and likely not looked at the book once I was at the podium.
#BACK UP GOODREADER APP WINDOWS#
I can search file names through GoodReader, or search the substance of the files using either my Mac’s or my Windows box’s onboard search function.
And because it’s all electronic, it’s easily searchable, and I can put my hands on a library of marked up cases so much more easily than when I was trying to maintain paper research files. If I want to send the case to a colleague, I can do so with or without my annotations. GoodReader allows me read and annotate case law like a dream - I get all of my nice neat red underlines and yellow highlights and typed notations saved on a. Synced with Dropbox, I have in a neat little electronic package all of the research I’ve done since I’ve purchased my iPad at my fingertips. I have come to be convinced that an iPad loaded with the GoodReader App is one of the best tools for lawyers to come around in many years. Not only would I use that book to prepare, but I would carry it with me like a security blanket, as a back up in case we needed to quote from a case or from something in the record.īut this time, I had my iPad. In the past when preparing for oral argument, I would, in the course of following my own advice, put together a notebook (or two!) with marked-up copies of the cases and the most important record excerpts.
This week I had oral argument before Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal in Daytona, and I decided to travel light.
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