Wolfram Alpha has announced its Lawyer's Professional Assistant app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. The app is $4.99 in the Apple iTunes App Store.

Features include:

• A dictionary of legal terms; statutes of limitations for each US state; and information about visa types, including requirements, common issues, and extensions and limits
• Calendar computations to quickly determine the end date of a specific term
• Financial computations, including fee calculations, settlement calculations, current interest rates, historical value of money, and federal US tax rates
• Crime rates and histories for specific crimes, as well as state and national average comparisons
• Demographics of population and economy for specific cities and international information about currency, country economies, and languages spoken, as well as time zone conversions
• Investigative information, including weather, company information, IP lookup, and blood alcohol calculator
• Damages and estate-planning computations for occupational salaries, costs of living, life expectancies, and present or future values
• Real estate law, including mortgage calculations, closing cost estimation, information on square footage, home sales price, and utility prices