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Deadlines courts read narrowly, calculated by hand.

A scheduling order deadline can only be moved for “good cause,” and courts read that standard strictly. The guides below cover what it actually costs a firm to calculate those dates manually, court by court, and what changes when it doesn't.

One Litigation Practice Was Losing Up to 1,900 Hours a Year to Manually Calculated Scheduling Orders

Federal and state courts treat scheduling order deadlines as close to absolute. Most firms still calculate the derived dates inside them by hand, court by court. Here's what that actually costs, and what we built to fix it for one practice.

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