Legal Research on an iPad

Set out below is one technique I use to make doing legal research on the iPad easier. If readers have other suggestions, I would welcome comments.

Rather than create Safari browser “Bookmarks” on my iPad, I instead found it more useful to use the option of “Add to Home Page.”

What I have therefore done was this: I use a customized HTML “home page” at work and on my home laptop that is organized into 6 “boxes” providing links (and password information) to web resources covering such things as reference tools, books, publishers, journals, research databases, news, case law, precedents and legislation (in some situations, I deep link into commercial databases).

I then uploaded that customized home page to my Dropbox account and opened up that page on my iPad’s browser and chose “Add to Home Page” and added it to a “Research” folder on my iPad, as shown with the blue arrow in the following screenshot:

Here is a screenshot showing more detail of the actual page and links (with password information redacted):

When I am “on the road” and need to do legal research on my iPad, I find loading this page makes it very quick and simple to access the research sites I most frequently use.