Randy Barnhart

Steve Jobs - 1955 - 2011

From the 2005 Stanford Commencement:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Thanks for the iPad, Steve.

iJuror on the iPad - Tech in the Courtroom

iJuror, a new app for the iPad just came to my notice. This from the developer's website:

"Developed with the help of many attorneys, iJuror is Juror Selection for the 21st Century.

Just some of the benefits include:

• Simply tap the seats to add juror information
• Quicker than pen & paper
• Share with your colleagues
• Store all of your trials in one location
• Look for patterns over time
• Email the jury information to any email address
• Easily print the email for access anywhere
• Configurable for seating arrangements of up to 60 jurors
• Add notes as the trial goes along
• Name view provides quick access to name and notes right at your finger tips
• Drag and drop to choose jurors
• Drag and drop to choose alternates
• Drag and drop to dismiss jurors

Use your iPad to help pick the jury for your next trial. Once you use iJuror you'll wonder how you ever selected jurors before. You can find iJuror in the Apple iTunes store."

Maybe I'll give it a try in my next trial. Has anyone out there used it? Leave a comment.

iGot an iPad ergo iAm

iGot an iPad last week, 3g, the works. iThink iT means iAm. Okay, enough with the cute typography, although iWonder (sorry) how much thinking is typography and typography thinking--lawyers are fond of "scare quotes," italics, bold, underscores, and small-font, densely-worded footnotes. Consider: iObject, or perhaps iStrenuously object (remember the eyeRoller by the Navy lawyer, played by Demi Moore, in the court martial law film, a Few Good Men).

  Anyhow, iPad for lawyers blogs are sprouting on the net: Legal iPad, iPad4Legal, etc. And there's already a story about an iPad at trial:

"It seems that one enterprising, Apple-addicted lawyer has already used an iPad to devastating effect in a court of law. No, he didn't balance it on his lap and send e-mails to his personal assistant while the judge was boring him with instructions. And, no, he didn't read his New York Times restaurant reviews while opposing counsel was sprinkling his dubious arguments with oily rhetoric.

Peter Summerill, partner in the Utah law firm of Hasenyager & Summerill, says Apple's magic revolution actually helped him win an important trial."

More on that story here. I have yet to take my iPad to trial, but I already read most of my email - with attached practice docs - on what is an example that technology, hardware and intelligent software, can be both functional and beautiful when skillfully matched.