Legal Terms Defined While Mobile
Nolo, a publisher of do-it-yourself legal books and software, has created a free dictionary app for the iPhone with plain-English definitions of nearly 4,000 legal terms. Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary contains 3,800 plain-English legal definitions, including many newly coined terms you'll find online and off, such as "typosquatting" and "patent troll". Of course, if you need definitions for legal standards -- even when they're in Latin -- you'll find those too.
The app is based on Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary, which was first published in May and is available both in print and as an eBook. Among the app's features: Users have the ability to suggest words to add to the dictionary, and there is also a searchable directory of lawyers.
Black's Law Dictionary--which defines 43,000 terms and perhaps has a different target audience than Nolo's dictionary--became available on iTunes in April. That app, however, will set you back about $50.