If ever there was a Swiss Army knife of an app for lawyers, it is the Wolfram Lawyer’s Professional Assistant. This multi-function app for iPad and iPhone can perform calendar computations, fee calculations, settlement calculations, interest-rate calculations and more. Use it to research historical weather information or population demographics. Look up legal terms and statutes of limitation. The list of what it can do goes on.

You may already know about Wolfram|Alpha, which calls itself the “computational knowledge engine.” While it resembles a search engine, it is actually a website that computes answers to natural-language queries based on a large collection of algorithms and curated data. The site is used by everyone from scientists to kids doing homework. Many lawyers use it for date calculations, financial calculations, statistics and other information.

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