Advocate is a special purpose iPad application designed to assist legal practitioners and judges prepare for and conduct litigation, whether civil or criminal. Advocate is the product of extensive collaboration between two Melbourne based barristers and a Melbourne based software development company. It is an iPad application designed by litigators for use by litigators.
Advocate uniquely brings together PDF annotation and mind mapping applications so as to create a product that is able to, amongst other things, do each of the following:
1. edit and annotate PDF documents;
2. create a mind map for each specific case, with nodes and sub-nodes to organise thoughts and documents;
3. easily link specific pages of any PDF document to any nodes or sub-nodes within a mind map;
4. create specific exhibit lists as documents are tendered, with exhibit descriptions and various search filters so as to quickly navigate between tendered documents;
5. synchronise all documents and mind maps through Dropbox, and save copies of large or key documents on your iPad for working offline.