20 apps to help provide easier access to legal help BY JOE DYSART APRIL 1, 2015, 6:01 AM CDT Reference: http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/20_apps_providing_easier_access_to_legal_help Image from Shutterstock . Just as the smartphone brought computing to the cyberchallenged, it is putting justice into the hands of some who may need it most. Apps for immigrants, the indigent, those who face arrest and the lawyers who help them have been popping up with increasing frequency. And many of those closest to the technology believe the momentum behind the developments is just starting to build. “People talk a lot about digital technologies revolutionizing legal practice,” says Tanina Rostain, a law professor at Georgetown Law Center who teaches a course on the potential of Internet-based technologies for legal practice and pedagogy. “This is the area where the revolution is happening.” Not surprisingly, among the earliest promulgators of justice apps ar...
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