TrialPad for iPad

TrialPad is an iPad app for litigators to organize, manage, and annotate documents to be used in a trial, hearing, or ADR setting. It was designed specifically for the legal profession by professional trial consultants who have helped lawyers present at trial for more than a decade. Unlike PDF readers, it lets you create separate case folders, organize and sort important documents, and dynamically annotate and present them via its flexible output options.

The Documents section contains all your documents for a particular matter, the Hot Docs section is for important documents you may intend to use with a specific witness, or that you plan to display many times during the course of trial. You can pre-annotate a document using the Highlight, Pen, or Redact tools and save your annotations as a Hot Doc by pressing the Fire icon. The documents folder only holds clean copies of your documents. Both can be categorized and organized into folders for witness, issue, trial day, or any other convention.

Simply press one of the tools and draw on your document. The Highlight tool is yellow and creates a outline box for the area you wish to highlight. The Pen tool is a red line that allows you to underline or draw freehand. The Redact tool is white and draws an outline box, like the Highlight tool. Whatever is covered by the box will be redacted.

TrialPad is available on the AppStore for $89.99–expensive for an app, cheap for trial practice software.