If you don’t view iOS as a serious platform for legal research, you obviously haven’t browsed through the iTunes App Store recently. Once you do, you’ll discover a rapidly expanding library of legal research apps covering an impressive range of territory usefully and deeply.

While it’s not yet time to start chucking conventional law books into the trash, it would be a mistake not to take advantage of the many high-quality legal research apps now available to Apple’s iPad and iPhone users at prices ranging from affordable to free.