ABA Journal releases first legal app for iPad

The first legal news app developed specifically for Apple’s iPad was released today by the ABA Journal, the flagship magazine of the American Bar Association.

The free app — which can be downloaded from iTunes — features breaking legal news updated every business day, all of the monthly magazine’s in-depth articles and blawgs featured in the Journal’s directory of more than 2,500 legal blogs.

The release also updates the interface of the ABA Journal’s iPhone app, which debuted in 2008 and has been downloaded more than 40,000 times, according to a release from the Journal.