Then the rule changes to require jury fees to be paid 35 days prior to trial. Imagine that you have calendared hundreds of trials for your firm, using that rule. To manually seek and find all these deadlines and move them would be very time consuming. But some programs will automatically go out and find every deadline created and move all the required deadlines in seconds. The best of these systems even know which rule sets apply to which jurisdictions, in what order of priority, and will warn you if you've made incorrect selections.
Risk Management Look for a program that is sensitive to audit trails, passwords, and date checking.
Look for a program that provides detailed audit trails of what was changed, when and by whom. When dealing with critical legal deadlines it is vital to record this audit information, so make sure that your program can be set to capture this information automatically. You must be able to fully control who at your firm has the rights to add, change or delete calendar events. Many firms limit attorneys and general staff access to viewing, leaving the adding and changing to more experienced calendar personnel. The calendar software should provide a variety of reports, both graphical and textual, for your use.