How do you avoid missing deadlines?  Imagine a system that prevents your firm from one of the major complaints for malpractice - poor calendaring habits.  Automated software allows a firm to maintain and shift calendar dates related to cases as well as calendars associated with individual attorneys and groups within the firm.  You'll want to check with your insurance carrier....some companies will lower your liability rates if you are using an automated practice management or calendaring/docketing system like either one of these award winning softwares:

CompuLaw’s software enables attorneys to automatically schedule critical dates in accordance with court rules, greatly reducing the possibility of missing deadlines through error-prone and time-consuming manual docket calculations. CompuLaw offers rules databases for all 50 states, including State, Federal, Appellate, Supreme Court, Bankruptcy, Intellectual Property and more.   They have selected the leading case management software vendors (PracticeMaster being one) in the legal industry and helped them integrate CompuLaw’s Court Rules Databases into the calendar portion of their software. In addition to being named #1 in the AmLaw Tech survey, Vision was also recognized as the #1 Docketing Solution for the 5th year in a row in the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) 2006 Technology Usage Survey.