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Keep a case's deadlines in one place

The calculators answer one question at a time and forget the answer when you close the tab. That is fine for a date you are about to write down and useless for a case you will be carrying for two years. A matter is where a case's dates live: the ones this site worked out, with the statute still attached to each, and the ones it never could, because no code section produces your mediation date.

What it does

  • Saves a calculation against a case. Run the motion, summary judgment, discovery, trial or criminal motion calculator, click "Save this matter" under the result, and give it a name. No account is needed: the matter stays in this browser until you sign in and move it to your account. Every deadline is frozen with the statute it came from and the date that rule was last checked against the code.
  • Tells you when the rules move. Saved dates are never silently recalculated. If a rule changes after you saved, the matter says so and waits for you to press recalculate, because a date you already gave a client should not change behind your back.
  • Holds the dates no calculator produces. A case management conference, a mediation, a deposition, an expert exchange the parties agreed to. They sit in date order with the computed ones and are labeled as yours, everywhere, including in the exports.
  • Optionally records which case it is. Case number, court, department, judge, parties, notes. Closed by default, and worth reading the note next to it before you use it.
  • Puts the dates in your own calendar and keeps them there. One link, subscribed once, and every matter you save afterwards joins it on its own. See below.
  • Exports. A CSV for a spreadsheet and a JSON written to be read by an AI assistant, with every deadline carrying its own citation. One matter or the whole docket.

Getting the dates into your calendar

Three ways, and the first one is the one to use. Nobody checks a website for a date they already have a calendar for.

  • Subscribe once, on your account page. One link carries every matter you have saved, every matter you save later appears on its own, and the dates move when you recalculate after a hearing changes. There are buttons for Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar, so it is one click rather than a URL to paste. It is read-only, and your calendar decides how often it re-reads, which runs to hours.
  • Or install the Google Calendar add-on. It writes real events instead of a read-only overlay, so you can edit, move and color them, and they appear the moment you press the button rather than whenever Google next polls. It is free, it needs no Google Cloud project and no payment, and it takes about five minutes: download it and follow the six steps in the README. If you do not care about editing the entries, subscribe instead and skip it.
  • Or download an iCalendar file, for one matter or the whole docket. Right for a one-off, and it is a snapshot: it will not follow the case.

There is also an Outlook add-in, read-only for now. It lists your docket beside your mail, with the authority behind each date, and subscribes Outlook to it in one click. It does not write events, because that needs a Microsoft app registration the site does not have yet. To install it, download the manifest and add it in Outlook as a custom add-in from a file, then paste the link that "Copy link for the Outlook add-in" on your account page copies. Some firms turn custom add-ins off. Either way, Outlook is covered by the subscription above, which needs nothing installed.

A subscription link opens your deadlines for anyone holding it, with no sign in, so treat it like a password. It carries deadline names, dates, authorities and your notes, and nothing from case detail. See privacy.

What it will not do

This is not a docketing system and it is not trying to become one. It has no rules calendaring, no conflicts checking, no integration with your practice management software, and no support obligation to anyone. If a date matters, the answer is still to check it against the code and your department, which is why every row here shows you the section it rests on.

Email reminders go out 10, 5, 1 days before a deadline, and only if you switch them on. They carry the matter name and the deadline, nothing else about the case.

Reminders, stated in full

Three emails per deadline, at most

  1. 10days beforeFirst warning, while there is still time to draft.
  2. 5days beforeSecond warning, in time to serve by mail.
  3. 1day beforeLast warning, the day before.

What the email contains, verbatim

The matter name you chose, the deadline name, and the date. Nothing else: no county, no inputs, no notes, no other deadlines. Nothing is sent until you ask: saving a matter while signed in asks, with the box already ticked. It is one setting for your whole account, not one per matter, and every email links to your account page, where the same switch turns them off. Plain text, no tracking pixels, and your address is never sold or shared.

What it costs, and what it holds

Nothing. There is no paid tier, no card, and no trial. Sign-in is an email link, so there is no password to lose. The calculators themselves never needed an account and still do not.

A saved matter is confidential litigation information, so it is worth knowing exactly what is stored and where. Every matter is readable only by the account that made it, enforced in the database rather than in the application. Everything is deleted, immediately and completely, when you delete your account. The full list of what is kept is on the privacy page, in plain language, including a change made in August 2026 that is worth reading if you are thinking of typing a case number.

If you would rather not have an account

Reasonable. Saving a matter does not need one: it stays in this browser, and it is gone if you clear your browser data. Every calculator also has "Copy link" underneath the result, and every one except the notice of appeal calculator has "Add to Outlook or any calendar". None of these needs an account. The link carries your inputs rather than the answer, so it recomputes when it is opened and cannot go stale. For an assistant, there is a connector that lets it call these calculators directly, and it reads no data about you at all.