When deciding which courts to choose for your subscription with DocketCalendar, you should consider the jurisdictions where you have active cases. Subscribing to a court provides unlimited firm-wide use within that specific jurisdiction. This means you only need to subscribe to the courts that are relevant to your active cases.
The flexibility of the system allows you to add or remove courts at any time, according to your needs. DocketCalendar offers access to over 1800 court rule sets nationwide, ensuring comprehensive coverage for a wide range of jurisdictions.
If you are logged into DocketCalendar, your trial expiration date can be found at the bottom of your sidebar on the left side of the screen.
The number of calendars you need in DocketCalendar depends on your specific requirements for managing cases, events, and deadlines. Factors include the volume of cases you handle, whether you need separate calendars for different types of cases or jurisdictions, and if you want to share specific case calendars with team members or clients. It's tailored to your workflow, allowing for the organization and segregation of cases to enhance efficiency and collaboration within your team.
DocketCalendar offers access to over 1800 court rule sets nationwide. This extensive coverage includes a variety of court rules across all 50 states, territories, and Canada, ensuring comprehensive support for legal professionals managing case deadlines and court dates.
$15/ per user + $15/ per court Monthly
The cost of DocketCalendar is based on a flexible monthly subscription model. The key points of this pricing structure are:
This model ensures that the cost is tailored to your specific usage, making it adaptable to the unique needs of your practice.
If you don't see your court listed in DocketCalendar, we encourage users to reach out for assistance. DocketCalendar is continually expanding its library based on feedback and customer demand. When a new rule set is requested, they prioritize building it, especially for standard litigation-related rule sets in State or Federal courts. Importantly, for most of these standard litigation rule sets, DocketCalendar offers to build them for free provided there is at least one subscriber. Once a rule set is built, it is monitored and kept up to date, but generally, new rules are not constructed until they have been explicitly requested.
To request a court that is not currently available, you should send your requests to [email protected]. This proactive approach ensures that DocketCalendar can accommodate your specific needs and helps the platform to cover a broader range of jurisdictions, making it more useful for all its users.
If you need more time to evaluate DocketCalendar beyond the initial trial period, contact us directly at [email protected]. We will be happy to extend your trial until you feel you have properly evaluated DocketCalendar for your purposes.
A free trial with DocketCalendar, includes all of the same feature-sets and functionality provided with a paid subscription. No restrictions! This will allow you and/ or your firm to test the complete capabilities of DocketCalendar so you know exactly what to expect before making a commitment.
Yes, you can use your own email address with DocketCalendar, but there are specific guidelines you should follow to ensure seamless integration and use within your firm. Here are some key points to consider when using your email address with DocketCalendar:
These guidelines are designed to ensure that DocketCalendar functions optimally within your firm's workflow, allowing for efficient management of deadlines and calendar events while accommodating the need for multiple users to access and manage the calendaring system.
IT consent is required for integrating DocketCalendar with your firm's email system, especially when using Outlook, due to the administrative permissions needed to allow DocketCalendar to access and manage calendars within your organization's email environment. This process ensures that DocketCalendar has the necessary permissions to automate event creation, updates, and deletions in Outlook calendars, which are critical for maintaining accurate and up-to-date scheduling information. Here's why IT consent is important:
The consent process typically involves logging into the Azure Admin Portal, navigating to the Enterprise Applications section, selecting DocketCalendar, and granting admin consent. This action must be performed by someone with administrative privileges in your organization's Azure Active Directory. Once consent is granted, DocketCalendar is fully permissioned and ready for use within your organization.
Accepting permissions is a crucial step when integrating DocketCalendar with your email system, such as Outlook or Google, because it allows DocketCalendar to perform actions on your behalf within your email and calendar environment. Here are the key reasons why accepting permissions is necessary:
By accepting permissions, you essentially authorize DocketCalendar to act as an extension of your email and calendar system, leveraging its full capabilities to streamline your scheduling and deadline management tasks. It's a critical step to ensure the tool works effectively within your existing technology ecosystem.
Yes, the court rules within DocketCalendar are updated regularly to ensure compliance with the latest legal requirements and changes. DocketCalendar uses the CalendarRules engine along with their proprietary technology and legal staff to build and maintain all rule sets. Because DocketCalendar operates on a cloud-based system, it can provide updates to customers in real-time without any interaction required by the end users. Updates are released to the CalendarRules team in advance of their official publication and are added to the system on their effective date, ensuring that any subscriber to that court is automatically in compliance with the new rules.
Additionally, CalendarRules tracks court changes and incorporates any new rules at the beginning of each month unless there is a significant rule change that occurs mid-month, in which case the rules would be updated to reflect these changes as well. Changes can include new deadlines, modifications to existing deadlines, and the removal of deadlines no longer used by the court. DocketCalendar automatically calculates new deadlines with these changes, and each month it shows any instances on your calendar where changes may have impacted deadlines previously calculated.
In DocketCalendar, while you cannot directly modify the existing events or calculations provided by the CalendarRules scheduling engine, there is flexibility to manually customize event details. Specifically, you have the ability to:
This approach provides a balance between the accuracy and compliance benefits of rule-based event creation and the flexibility needed to cater to the unique aspects of each case.
If you need help with DocketCalendar, you can easily reach out for support. On the DocketCalendar website, there is an option to contact their team directly or to schedule a free support call. This resource is helpful if you're facing issues with setup or if you have specific questions that aren't covered in the user guide or other documentation.
DocketCalendar integrates with both Outlook and Google Calendar by exporting calendar events and deadlines directly to your personal or professional calendar. This ensures that all your case-related dates and reminders are synchronized across platforms, providing easy access and notifications through your preferred calendar application. The specific mechanism for this synchronization includes the use of calendar feeds or direct integration features that allow DocketCalendar to communicate updates in real-time, ensuring your calendar entries remain accurate and up-to-date with any changes made within DocketCalendar.
The process behind how DocketCalendar sends events to Google and Outlook involves several key steps:
This integration allows for efficient and automated synchronization of events and deadlines between DocketCalendar and the user's chosen calendar platform, whether it's Outlook or Google Calendar.
IT consent is required for integrating DocketCalendar with your firm's email system, especially when using Outlook, due to the administrative permissions needed to allow DocketCalendar to access and manage calendars within your organization's email environment. This process ensures that DocketCalendar has the necessary permissions to automate event creation, updates, and deletions in Outlook calendars, which are critical for maintaining accurate and up-to-date scheduling information. Here's why IT consent is important:
The consent process typically involves logging into the Azure Admin Portal, navigating to the Enterprise Applications section, selecting DocketCalendar, and granting admin consent. This action must be performed by someone with administrative privileges in your organization's Azure Active Directory. Once consent is granted, DocketCalendar is fully permissioned and ready for use within your organization.
Accepting permissions is a crucial step when integrating DocketCalendar with your email system, such as Outlook or Google, because it allows DocketCalendar to perform actions on your behalf within your email and calendar environment. Here are the key reasons why accepting permissions is necessary:
By accepting permissions, you essentially authorize DocketCalendar to act as an extension of your email and calendar system, leveraging its full capabilities to streamline your scheduling and deadline management tasks. It's a critical step to ensure the tool works effectively within your existing technology ecosystem.
Sharing your calendar in DocketCalendar is important for several reasons, which relate to both internal coordination and ensuring access to updated legal deadlines across your team or firm. Here are key reasons why you might need to share your calendar:
Sharing your calendar in DocketCalendar is not just a feature; it's a strategic tool that enhances collaboration, ensures efficiency, and maintains transparency across all levels of a legal firm.
A trigger in DocketCalendar may have no events due to specific circumstances in the calculation or saving process. When you create a trigger, it is supposed to have associated events based on the rules and dates you've set. However, there are a few reasons why a trigger might end up with no events:
To address this issue, you can view and edit your triggers to check their details and make necessary adjustments. This includes recalculating the trigger or editing its conditions to ensure it generates the expected events.
f you try to remove such a trigger using the archive button, DocketCalendar may freeze, leading to the trigger becoming "stuck". In such cases, the Delete button allows you to easily remove these records without needing to request assistance from DocketCalendar support.
In DocketCalendar, a "Rule" refers to the procedural rules that are used to determine deadlines and other important dates in a case. There are two key types of rules in DocketCalendar:
Rule Text: This includes one or more excerpts from the procedural rules applicable to the case.
Rule ID: This is an abbreviation for the name of the applicable rules of civil procedure, followed by the paragraph or section number for each rule text excerpt (e.g., CCP 412.20(a)(3); 430).
In DocketCalendar a "Trigger," "Trigger Event," or "Trigger Item" refers to a key event that is specified in procedural rules and upon which case deadlines are based. These triggers are essential for determining the timelines and deadlines within a case. For instance, the service of a summons and complaint can serve as a trigger event.
A "Trigger Date" is the date on which the trigger event occurs. This date could be in the past, in the future, or even the current date, depending on the nature of the trigger. An example of a trigger date could be the date of an upcoming trial or the date a motion was served.
"Related Events" are the deadlines and court appointments that are calculated based on a trigger event. While most related events are deadlines, some triggers might be case-related court appointments themselves, such as a deposition, hearing, or trial. In such cases, DocketCalendar includes these appointments in the list as Related Events.
In DocketCalendar, an "Event" refers to a specific item or occurrence that is scheduled on your calendar. It could be a deadline, a court appointment, or any other significant date related to a case. Events in DocketCalendar are often linked to triggers, which are key procedural events that determine the timeline of a case.
When you are viewing a Trigger in DocketCalendar, you will see a list of events associated with that Trigger on the View Trigger screen. Here, you can view, edit, and delete these events. Additionally, the View All Events function allows you to find, view, and edit your events more broadly. From the View All Events screen, you can search for events using the search field.
If you are using the built-in Calendar in the DocketCalendar application, you can click on any event on the Calendar and then click the View Event button to see more details. Similarly, if you use Outlook, each event on your Outlook Calendar will contain a link to the corresponding event in DocketCalendar.
The View Event screen shows all the details of your event, providing comprehensive information about each scheduled occurrence.
In DocketCalendar, the relationship between a trigger and an event is fundamental to understanding how deadlines are calculated and managed within the application. Here's a detailed explanation:
For example, if a trial date is set (trigger), DocketCalendar will calculate and schedule all related deadlines (events), such as discovery cutoffs or deadlines to file pre-trial motions, based on the specified trial date and the procedural rules of the court handling the case. This ensures that all deadlines are accurately reflected on your calendar, helping to manage case timelines efficiently and effectively.
The "Service Type" in DocketCalendar refers to the method of service used in the filing of a case. This is significant because procedural rules in many courts require the addition of a certain period of time to the calculation of related deadlines, based on the method of service. For instance, this could include methods like personal service, electronic service, service by mail, etc.
DocketCalendar acknowledges this variation in deadline calculations by introducing what is known as a "service type offset." This offset is the additional time added to a deadline based on the service type. The service type matters because it affects how deadlines are calculated and ensures that all deadlines are accurate and in compliance with the specific procedural rules of the court handling the case.