Tracking court dates, deadlines, and subpoenas

Not legal advice. Deadlines and computation rules vary by court and jurisdiction. Always verify dates against the governing rules and the order itself.

Every matter is a web of dates: hearings, filing deadlines, discovery cutoffs, production dates, responses due. Scattered across emails, a shared calendar, and someone's memory, they're a malpractice risk. The antidote isn't heroics — it's a single per-case calendar that's actually trusted, with reminders before things come due.

The dates that bite

• Court appearances — hearings, conferences, trial.
• Filing deadlines — motions, responses, disclosures.
• Discovery & production — responses and document production due dates.
• Subpoena dates — appearance or production, with what's demanded.

Get the dates out of the documents

The reliable dates live in the documents — the order, the notice, the subpoena. Re-typing them by hand is where errors creep in. Better to read each date from its source document, link it to that source, and put it on the calendar automatically, so the calendar entry always points back to the paper that created it.

A deadline you typed from memory is a guess. A deadline read from the order, linked to it, is a fact you can verify.

Reminders are the point

A calendar nobody looks at fails silently. What protects you is being told ahead of time — a lead-time reminder, or a daily summary of what's coming — so a deadline is handled before it's a crisis.

How Scribe handles this

Each case in Scribe Verbatim has its own calendar of court dates, filing and production deadlines, and reminders. Parsing a subpoena or court order automatically adds the appearance or tracks the production — with the entry linked back to the document it came from. Optional email notifications arrive instantly or as a daily summary, so nothing slips. For the production side of a subpoena, see responding to a subpoena.