Depositions with an iPad, Document Edition

Compare these two recent posts--

On April 11, Jim Dedman, in a post at NC Law Blog, described how iPads might be used to do away with paper exhibits at depositions. He concluded, "Someday, though, someday, we’ll be able to arrive at the deposition with just our laptop or tablet . . . But, alas, that day has not yet arrived."

Just two days later, Jeff Richardson at iPhone J.D. brought news of this very development:

I took a deposition yesterday in which the witness had produced thousands of pages of documents. In the past, that would have meant lugging tons lots of boxes and binders to the deposition. Instead, I just put everything on my iPad. I used Apple's Numbers app to read some Excel files. The PDF files went in to my Dropbox account, and while it took over an hour to sync almost 2 GB of data to GoodReader, everything worked great once it was there. Searching for a term in a 2900 page PDF file was slower in GoodReader than it would have been with a laptop computer, but it was fast enough for what I needed during the deposition. It worked great, and reminded me (once again) of why the iPad is such a great litigation tool.

Read both posts in full for more good ideas about the use of iPads at depositions.

Comments

[Ian O'Flaherty]

Jeff Richardson also did a detailed review of TranscriptPad, an iPad app a that allows you to read, review, and assign issue codes to the depo afterwards:
http://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2012/01/review-transcriptpad.html

Ian O'Flaherty
Developer of TrialPad and TranscriptPad

[Mike Wasylik]

Lugging an iPad to an oral argument with the entire record indexed and pre-loaded, along with all the briefs and case law, can replaces boxes of material.

http://floridaappellate.com/2011/11/17/ipad-and-oral-advocacy/

In Florida, even the judges all use iPads now:

http://floridaappellate.com/2012/03/28/judges-and-ipads/