{"id":147,"date":"2010-09-21T14:59:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T19:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/09\/21\/free-iphone-app-jargon-for-corporate-lawyers\/"},"modified":"2010-09-21T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T19:59:55","slug":"free-iphone-app-jargon-for-corporate-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/09\/21\/free-iphone-app-jargon-for-corporate-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Free iPhone app: Jargon for corporate lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008 Latham &amp; Watkins attorney Kirk Davenport developed a list of 750 need-to-know terms for corporate and deal attorneys.\u00a0 Now that list is available as a free <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/the-book-jargon-corporate\/id383949695?mt=8\" title=\"The Book of Jargon app\">iPhone\/iPad Touch\/iPad app<\/a> courtesy of the IT and business development teams at Latham.\u00a0 The app, called &#8220;The Book of Jargon,&#8221; is missing some important terms like &#8220;credit default swap,&#8221; but it still does a good job of covering the obvious (&#8220;common stock&#8221;) to the more advanced (&#8220;Macaroni Defense&#8221;).\u00a0 You can search or browse for terms.\u00a0 I would have liked to see an example for each entry as well as links to other resources illustrating the terms&#8211;but hey, it&#8217;s free.\u00a0 And how much free time can Kirk Davenport have?\u00a0 Recommended for aspiring corporate lawyers, perhaps as a supplement to that pricey but highly functional <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/03\/10\/blacks-law-dictionary-theres-an-app-for-that\/\" title=\"Black's app blog post\">Black&#8217;s Law Dictionary app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008 Latham &amp; Watkins attorney Kirk Davenport developed a list of 750 need-to-know terms for corporate and deal attorneys.\u00a0 Now that list is available as a free iPhone\/iPad Touch\/iPad app courtesy of the IT and business development teams at Latham.\u00a0 The app, called &#8220;The Book of Jargon,&#8221; is missing some important terms like &#8220;credit <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/09\/21\/free-iphone-app-jargon-for-corporate-lawyers\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[302],"tags":[335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}