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Take Control of Your Calendar With Outlook Categories

Attorney at Work

Color-coding is especially useful on your calendar. From your calendar, click on an appointment to open the Meeting tab where you’ll find categories. When setting up categories, think about ways you’d like to color-code your calendar (or emails, tasks and contacts). Setting Up Categories. Set up a category for each of those.

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Rules-Based Calendaring Software: Help Easing the Deadline Pain

Attorney at Work

One notable category of legal software that litigators often find particularly useful is rules-based calendaring software. That’s where rules-based calendaring systems come in: They help ease the pain of tracking and meeting deadlines. From Manual Entry Paper and Electronic Calendars …. Rules-Based Calendaring Options.

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The Clock is Ticking: How to Miss Fewer Court Deadlines

Attorney at Work

Managing an increasing volume of cases and court deadlines– sometimes in multiple jurisdictions – is one of the biggest time management challenges for law firms. . The court ordered additional briefings, but the lawyer then missed multiple deadlines, claiming earlier orders were lost among numerous notifications on his mobile phone.

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The Main Event: Three Important Calendar Management Tips for Lawyers

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

Most attorneys should probably be ruled by their calendars, with law practices running on deadlines. That’s especially true for litigation firms, which take direction from court rules and judges about when and how things get done. If you want to streamline your processes around calendar management, we can help!

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Why Integrated Rule-Based Calendaring Software Is Better Than Just Apple/Gmail

CARET Legal

The dawn of integrated rule-based calendaring software has ushered in a new era of efficiency and precision in legal calendaring. Calendaring is often more complex and critical than it may appear, as it directly impacts case deadlines , court appearances, and overall practice management.

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MerusCase Adds Rules-Based Calendaring Through Integration With CalendarRules

LawSites

The cloud-based practice management platform MerusCase is today launching an integration with CalendarRules to provide rules-based calendaring of court deadlines. CalendarRules, founded in 2007 as a spin-off from Open Text, says it has over 1,800 rule sets for federal and state courts throughout the U.S.

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Local Flavor: MyCase Expands Its Integration Options with CalendarRules and Smith.ai

Attorney at Work

CalendarRules is a calendar add-on feature that pulls and calculates deadlines for specific courts around the United States. If there’s one thing lawyers worry about more than revenue, it’s malpractice claims; and, one consistent bogeyman invading those nightmares is missed court deadlines.