May 31, 2005
Rule-Based Docketing
I was once asked what I liked most and least about traveling as much as I do. What I like most are the friends I’ve made all across this country. Not only among law firms but, also, within the community of vendors and consultants serving law firms. Among my favorites are the folks at CompuLaw®. The CompuLaw team reinvented Docketing and has set a standard that no one else has matched — or even come close.
Docketing is a mission-critical application for a law firm. Failure to properly calendar critical legal dates associated with changing rules is one of the leading causes of legal malpractice suits against attorneys. Most vendors of law firm business software offer their clients a Docketing option including the ability for the law firm to define rules that explode an event into multiple Docket entries — one for each critical date. Of course, the law firm can get it wrong when defining rules for a particular jurisdiction and important rule changes can go unnoticed.
CompuLaw changed all of that beginning in 1980. Since the 1980s, CompuLaw has offered the only library of rules databases written and edited by attorneys. CompuLaw is an official publisher of rules for courts throughout the United States and it monitors its rules databases for changes on a daily basis. New rules databases are added regularly. Compulaw's Vision system dominates the market for rule-based docketing applications. For that reason, most leading legal software vendors have an allied or partner relationship with CompuLaw. Juris,Inc. for example, offers its clients a “CompuLaw Aware Module” that detects the presence of the CompuLaw system and automatically modifies the operation of Juris® for a seamless integration.
Today, law firm’s have a new alternative. CompuLaw has created something entirely new, “Deadlines On Demand™” — a pay-as-you-go service over the Internet. Deadlines on Demand is a CompuLaw company. With Deadlines on Demand, law firms can take advantage of the same reliable Compulaw rules over the Internet without purchasing additional software.
A law firm can access Deadlines on Demand, enter the information for a particular case and then download the results into their Microsoft® Outlook® calendar component.
More than two decades of experience, as well as strategic alliances with today's foremost legal vendors, have made CompuLaw The Court Rules CompanySM. Now every law firm can take advantage of CompuLaw rules by going to www.deadlines.com.
P. S. What I like least is the fourth day. By the fourth day, I’m ready to go home.
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