A special thanks to the Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce for inviting me to speak on June 13, 2013 regarding iPhone and iPad Apps for Business Professionals.
If you are interested in attending, the details are here.
The presentation material is here (also on the right column of this page under “Materials”).
Can Border Patrol rummage through the contents of your digital camera, laptop, smartphones, etc at the border?
Yes, according to several recent cases and a broad exception to the Fourth Amendment (search and seizure).
Read “Can They Search Your iPad or iPhone at the Border?” from the May 2013 Palm Beach County Bar Association Bulletin.
And, yes, that case to the right is for sale here .
There has been criticism that the all-too-familiar cell phone bars on your iPhone are not entirely accurate. There is a (reversible) trick to show reception in decibels, not bars. 
This gives you a number (sadly, for me, usually ranging between -100 and -80) which is a more precise measure of signal strength. The closer you get to zero, the stronger the signal. Between -50 and -75 is considered excellent. Because of how decibels work, movement from, say, -95 to -90 is a bigger move than -85 to -80 (study up on decibels here or just trust me, closer to zero is better). You can always tap on the decibels and it will revert back to bars.
1. Go into Phone and, as if you were dialing a phone number, hit *3001#12345#*
2. It will go into a field test mode. Tap the decibels/bars in the upper left corner and you can see it switch between them.
3. Hold down the power button (top of iphone) until the “slide to power off” appears.
4. Don’t power off. Now hold down the Home button (circle) until it drops you back to your main home screen.
5. You can now flip between decibels and bars.
Both the ABA and the Am Law have come out with recent surveys confirming that nearly half of the lawyers using a smartphone choose iPhone and over 90% of tablet-lawyers are using an iPad. No surprise. But are they using their iDevices correctly?
Check out this one-page guide for lawyers on some easy tricks, tools, and techniques for maximizing the value of your iDevice.
Thanks to the Palm Beach Bar Association for permitting the re-print from this December 2012 Bar Bulletin.
Article is here.
Thanks to the Palm Beach County Bar Association’s Solo & Small Firm Practitioners Committee for the invitation to speak on “How to Effectively Use Technology in Your Practice.”
We focused on iPhone/iPad apps for your practice, mediation, and trial as well as general social media discovery and marketing tips.
Today’s course was taught by Spencer Kuvin of Cohen & Kuvin and Christopher Hopkins of Akerman Senterfitt. 
Special thanks to the Committee chair, Shannon Sagan.
This course included:
This article from the October 2012 Palm Beach Bar Bulletin will explain that PDF documents are not “fixed” but, instead, can be easily modified on your iPhone or iPad.
It gives instructions to learn, in 10 minutes, how to sign documents on the road.
Have clients retain you in one step.
Sign or revise documents while travelling without resorting to a fax machine.
Article is here.
I recently spoke at the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) South Florida Third Annual CLE Conference, along with fellow Akerman lawyers, Michael Marsh and Brian Miller, about iPhone app development issues for inhouse counsel (more colorfully titled, “CYA (Cover Your Apps).”
Just in time for you to upgrade to iOS6, here are fifteen iPhone/iPad apps selected for inhouse counsel:
ACC Docket – get the ACC publication (and news) 
ACC Member to Member – connect with ACC members as well as news/blogs/etc
CardMunch – scan & save business cards; see person’s LinkedIn profile
ABBYY Business Card Reader – scan business cards; save into iPhone contacts
Photosynth – take 360 panoramic pictures of accident / work area
Seat Guru – find the best seat on your next flight with comments from fellow fliers
Gate Guru – find shops, bars, restaurants in your airport gate
Adobe Reader – teach this app your signature then sign PDF documents on the road (no more faxing)
PDF Expert – revise, highlight & annotate PDF records (don’t carry reams of documents when you travel)
Picture It Settled – tool for predicting time/amount of settlement during mediation
Sayfie Review – stay on top of Tallahassee politics
Florida Bar News –
Exhibit A – use this presentation program for meetings, mediation, trial, & arbitration
Heart Rate – outside counsel have you stressed? Find out
The Palm Beach County Bar Association presents a 2-hr lunch seminar, “iPhone & iPad Apps for Lawyers,” on Friday, June 15, 2012.
Come learn tips about your device that you likely did not know.
Better still, learn of over 60 unusual-but-not-obscure apps for lawyers. We do not cover obvious apps like LinkedIn and Expedia. Learn about apps you may not know.
Flyer is here.
Sign up here.
The Palm Beach Bar Association is hosting the 2.5 CLER credit course, iPhone and iPad Apps for Lawyers, on June 15, 2012 at the Bar’s new offices.
Bring your mobile device, have lunch, and learn about more than 50 apps which will help your law practice, writing, research, communications, and productivity both in the office and on the road. 
Flyer and information is here.
Registration on the Bar website is here.
Remember the “news” that our smartphones are tracking user locations and storing them in files on the phone? 
This article discusses how the iPhone accumulates and stores location data — and how it can be obtained by lawyers in civil cases.
Originally published in the Trial Advocate Quarterly, Volume 30, Number 3, Summer 2011. Download Using iPhone Location Data in Discovery.
Lawyers, and really anyone, should pay attention to whether their smartphone is appending “sent by my iPhone”-type messages at the bottom of business emails. It’s an unnecessary advertisement for someone else’s product in your communication AND sends a variety of poor messages.
Don’t believe it? Read this article, from the July/August 2011 Palm Beach Bar Bulletin.
The Palm Beach Daily News ran a nice story on the CLaw iPhone app which sets out Florida Rules of Professional Conduct as well as various federal and local bar rules which is free on iTunes. 
Article is here.
Check out the app via link at ClawApp.com.
CLaw – Florida Rules of Professional Conduct is a free iPhone app for Florida lawyers which includes:
1. Florida Rules of Professional Conduct with 2010 updates
2. Southern District local guidelines
3. Florida local bar guidelines (Broward, Jacksonville, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach)
4. and more…!
Check out the ClawApp website here.
Download the app from itunes, here.
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A special thanks to our friends at Findlaw.com who noted this “breaking legal document” story out of Kentucky. A high school student is suing Apple and others for personal injuries, and loss of the iTouch, when it exploded in his pants pocket while at school. According to the lawsuit, the family bought the iTouch in November 2008 and, within three weeks, it popped and caught fire in his pants while at school. We note the exceptional and unnecessary details about a friend helping him remove his pants and that he burned his spandex underwear…
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