The ABA Journal announced Black’s Law Dictionary Now in iTunes.  This is the first iPhone/iPod Touch app from West Publishing and features the most recent edition of the dictionary.  At $49.99 it is less than the Amazon price for the print edition.

Shortly afterwards came the announcement of a Free Plain-English Law Dictionary iPhone App Released. Nolo, a publisher of do-it-yourself legal books and software, has created Nolo's Plain English Law Dictionary, a free dictionary app for the iPhone with plain-English definitions of nearly 4,000 legal terms.  According to a Nolo press release, “you’ll find both the legal standards—Latin terms, courtroom jargon, contract basics—and newly minted terms that reflect the ever changing language of the law today." 

Most recently, attorney Jeff Richardson reviewed Barron's Law Dictionary for his iPhone J.D. blog.  Available in the iTunes store for $14.99, the Barron's Law Dictionary, according to its website, defines more than 3,000 legal terms in non-technical language, but without sacrificing legal accuracy.  The iPhone J.D. blog posting provides a comparison and contrast amongst the three law dictionaries along with screenshots.

Each of the dictionaries is available in traditional hardcopy format with Nolo’s dictionary also conveniently available for purchase as an eBook.