AI Docketing & Deadlines Agent
Watches every active matter for new filings and orders, computes the response deadline against the right court's rules, and proposes a calendar entry for your review. Every date sourced, every rule cited.
- Daily scan of active matters for new orders, filings, and notices
- Deadlines computed against the correct jurisdiction's rules
- SOL alerts at 90, 60, 30, and 14 days for any matter without a filed demand
- Calendar entries proposed with the rule cited and the source attached
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The deadline you would have computed by hand
It's a Wednesday at 7:30am. Overnight, a defendant's motion to dismiss landed in the docket on a personal injury matter you've had open for 4 months. By the time your paralegal is at her desk at 9, your Docketing & Deadlines agent has already pulled the filing, parsed it for the type and the service date, computed the response deadline under the local rules of the court (21 days, Saturday and Sunday excluded), drafted a calendar event for the response, and sent a Slack ping with a link to the source order and the rule it relied on.
Your paralegal opens Slack, opens the link, opens the order. She agrees with the computed deadline. She accepts the calendar entry. The whole confirmation takes 4 minutes. The motion would have sat in someone's email until lunchtime in the old workflow. By the new one, the deadline is on the calendar before the coffee is finished.
What the Docketing & Deadlines agent does
The agent watches every active matter for incoming court documents (orders, motions, filings, notices), classifies them, and computes the response or compliance deadline under the rules of the court where the matter is pending. It accounts for weekends, holidays, court closures, and the local rules that vary between federal and state courts and between districts inside the same state. Every computed date is paired with the source rule and a link back to the underlying document.
It also runs a daily SOL sweep across your matter list. Any active claim approaching the statute of limitations gets surfaced at 90, 60, 30, and 14 days. The reminders escalate in tone, but the action is always yours. The agent proposes; the attorney accepts.
Inputs and outputs
Inputs
- Court PACER, ECF, or e-filing portal feeds for federal and state matters
- Email inbox containing service of process, orders, and stipulations
- Practice management system matter records (jurisdiction, parties, filing dates)
- Court-rule reference for each jurisdiction your firm practices in
Outputs
- Daily docket digest with new filings, classified by type and matter
- Computed response deadline for each filing with the rule cited
- Proposed calendar entry on the responsible attorney's calendar
- SOL watch list with days remaining and last activity per matter
- Slack or email alert when a deadline is inside 7 days without a filed response
- Audit log per computation showing the inputs, the rule, and the result
Integrations
- PACER, ECF, and state e-filing portals (Tyler Odyssey, eCourts, etc.)
- Clio, MyCase, Practice Panther, or SmokeBall
- Outlook Calendar, Google Calendar, or your court calendaring tool
- Slack or Microsoft Teams for inbox-style alerts
- Document management system (NetDocuments, iManage, Clio Drive)
Practice-area fit
Every engagement tunes the agent to your firm's specific matter mix. The areas below are where we've seen this agent fit most naturally.
Function
Safety posture
Deadlines are proposed, never silently entered. The agent puts a hold on the calendar with a rule citation and the source order; an attorney or paralegal accepts. If the rule is ambiguous (a court closure that fell on the same day as a filing, a local rule that overrides the federal default), the computation is flagged for human review with the conflict surfaced.
The audit trail covers every step: which document the agent saw, which rule it applied, which date it produced, who accepted or modified it. If a malpractice question ever lands on a missed deadline, the log shows what was flagged, when, and what happened next.
Frequently Asked Questions
Each matter carries jurisdiction metadata in your practice management system: court, district, division. The agent uses that to select the right rule set. For matters in courts with quirky local rules, we encode those rules in a skill file your team can review and update.
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