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I'm starting my first year of law school this upcoming fall and was wondering if there would be any advantage or possibly disadvantages to using an ipad. First off, are law school text books available on iPads as e-books? If so that would definitely be much better than lugging around 30 pounds of books. I could also see how it may be a little more difficult to navigate through though. Are there any other advantages to having one for law school? Any idea, comments, or info on the subject? Thanks.

Hi there. You seem new here. Use the search function: this has been posted about many, many times. In fact, always search before posting a new topic.

There have been a few articles about this on TLS, but there is quite a bit of new information in the last year.

I'm a 2L at Notre Dame, and I have an iPad. I love it, and I use it all the time for law school-related purposes.

The Westlaw Next App is kick ass, and I tend to display cases on my iPad when I type out notes. There is also a HeinOnline App that is pretty cool, although I rarely use that.

If you download the Amazon Kindle App, you can get a lot of books (especially supplements in the E&E series). Of course you could also use these on a Kindle or a Kindle Fire.

In less admirable purposes, if a professor bans laptops (and a few inevitably do), you can have it sitting on your desk in a portfolio and the prof will never know...

iPads give you one advantage in law school. You can extend your monitor like a BOSS. Now you're the envy of gunners everywhere as you copy and paste from scanned versions of your text book, take notes and outline, and go over an outline you got from a 2L all at the same time.

Example:

Rofl. Appreciated the gunner tidbit.

I don't know of anyone that uses one in class. I use mine for occasional research and annotating PDFs and it works great.

We have people using iPads. It's a larger version of an iPhone that you inevitably will play Angry Birds on in class.

LazinessPerSe wrote:We have people using iPads. It's a larger version of an iPhone that you inevitably will play Angry Birds on in class.

great username + post combo.

Awyeah! Now doable on the Samsung Galaxy Tablet!!!



Set this up in class and be the envy of your peers!

TTTLS wrote:Awyeah! Now doable on the Samsung Galaxy Tablet!!!



Set this up in class and be the envy of your peers!

Yea I was thinking about bringing a 27" iMac and a Samsung Galaxy Tablet to class next year. I was worried that it might be obnoxious but I'm glad to see you already do it. I'm not worried about lugging it around since I heard you can get a guy to take care of this for about 2000 pesos a week.

laxbrah420 wrote:Yea I was thinking about bringing a 27" iMac and a Samsung Galaxy Tablet to class next year. I was worried that it might be obnoxious but I'm glad to see you already do it. I'm not worried about lugging it around since I heard you can get a guy to take care of this for about 2000 pesos a week.

It's really the only way to go. You gotta be crazy not to spend thousands of dollars on a machine you'll be using for mostly Microsoft Word and Lexis.

Also, it's a great way to kill the confidence of your prole peers.

I have an iPad and it's cool but school-wise it's as useless as tits on a bull. Buy one if you want one, but don't cook up some phony law school justification for a purely luxury purchase.

haha i'll never forget this burger who pulled two hilarious gaffs with the iPad/iPhone during 1L.

One teacher announced on the first day of class that no computers were allowed in her lectures. This kid raises his hand and asks if he can use a bluetooth keyboard to type notes to a iphone that he can keep in his pocket.

SAME KID a few weeks later at the meeting to install exam software raises his hand after 10-15 minutes for help. The IT geeks come over and would you believe that examsoft for macs doesn't run on iOS?? He was pecking away with two fingers trying to install the software onto the pad and planning to take his exams on it. this time not using his handy bluetooth keyboard.

Vronsky wrote:haha i'll never forget this burger who pulled two hilarious gaffs with the iPad/iPhone during 1L.

One teacher announced on the first day of class that no computers were allowed in her lectures. This kid raises his hand and asks if he can use a bluetooth keyboard to type notes to a iphone that he can keep in his pocket.

SAME KID a few weeks later at the meeting to install exam software raises his hand after 10-15 minutes for help. The IT geeks come over and would you believe that examsoft for macs doesn't run on iOS?? He was pecking away with two fingers trying to install the software onto the pad and planning to take his exams on it. this time not using his handy bluetooth keyboard.

When Law School Gunning Goes Bad.

SBL wrote:I have an iPad and it's cool but school-wise it's as useless as tits on a bull. Buy one if you want one, but don't cook up some phony law school justification for a purely luxury purchase.

brah im not in law school but i read a lot of pdfs for work and shit. taking notes on pdfs on Notability w/ a stylus and saving them to dropbox is fucking sweet