Legal Calendar Specialist
A deadline focused professional who manages court dates, filing deadlines, statute of limitations tracking, and scheduling across your entire firm.
A legal calendar specialist from DocketHire takes full ownership of your firm's most critical function: deadline management. Court dates, filing deadlines, statutes of limitations, discovery cutoffs, and hearing schedules are all tracked, verified, and communicated to the responsible attorney well in advance. Missing a single deadline can result in malpractice exposure, and a dedicated calendar specialist eliminates that risk.
Our legal calendar specialists understand the rules of civil procedure and local court rules that dictate deadline calculations. They do not simply enter dates into a calendar. They calculate response deadlines from service dates, account for court holidays and extensions, and build reminder workflows that ensure every deadline receives appropriate attention from the legal team.
DocketHire calendar specialists work within your practice management system to maintain a centralized, accurate calendar that the entire firm can rely on. They generate daily and weekly deadline reports, coordinate with attorneys on scheduling conflicts, and serve as the single source of truth for every time sensitive obligation across your caseload.
Key Tasks
- Calculate and enter all court deadlines based on rules of civil procedure
- Track statutes of limitations across the firm's caseload
- Monitor local court calendars for hearing dates and scheduling changes
- Generate daily and weekly deadline reports for attorneys
- Set up multi-tier reminder workflows for approaching deadlines
- Coordinate scheduling to avoid conflicts between attorneys and cases
- Update calendars when cases are continued, rescheduled, or dismissed
- Verify deadline accuracy against court orders and notices
- Manage CLE deadlines and bar registration renewals for attorneys
- Reconcile calendar entries with court docket records
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