Deadlines On Demand is Now Deadlines.com

USA/Canada News

26
Apr
2011

Deadlines.com’s redesigned website raises the bar for small firm web-based calendaring

Online legal deadline calculation service Deadlines.com (formerly Deadlines On Demand), a wholly owned subsidiary of CompuLaw LLC, today announced the re-branded Deadlines.com service and completely redesigned website.

Beyond simplifying the name to Deadlines.com, the web-based “Software-as-a-Service” has been enhanced to help small firms better manage malpractice risks based on missed deadlines. Deadlines.com service is now available with a flat rate pricing option, auto-emailed reminders of upcoming deadlines and auto-synchronization with Outlook, as well as a variety of PDF reports that users can run to check on deadlines, court dates and personal appointments. Based on thousands of users’ suggestions, Los Angeles-based Media Contour worked closely with the company’s programming team to create a fresh user experience with an updated, easy to understand user interface and numerous often requested features.

Deadlines.com utilizes CompuLaw’s court rules databases and patented deadline calculation technology to provide accurate, reliable and comprehensive legal deadlines on a pay-per-case or pay-per-use basis. The service, designed to protect small law firms and their clients from missing critical court dates and deadlines, has the largest rules library in the industry. Since the original launch of Deadlines On Demand, many small firm users have increasingly identified with and referred to the company as Deadlines.com. Simplifying the brand name of the service in this manner was a logical move for the company.

Beyond the name change and updated user interface, Deadlines.com provides a variety of upgrades. Notable feature enhancements include:

• Flat Rate Case Pricing Option: Allows users to run virtually all of the deadlines for a case, providing a more cost effective option for an increased number of deadlines. This “non- opened ended” pricing model allows lawyers to more easily bill the modest research charges back to their clients.
• Email Reminders: Includes consolidated deadline reminders by email for all users, even those who don’t rely on Deadlines.com’s automatic Outlook synchronization.
• Cloud-based SaaS: Increased service flexibility coupled with decreased maintenance and improved web-based functionality providing cost effective, anytime, anywhere delivery of critical deadlines, scheduling automation services, and effective backup/disaster recovery.
• New Outlook Sync Options: Includes “Synching Dates” to multiple users’ calendars, automatically assigning times to “no time deadlines” and automatically assigning Outlook categories by case reference.
• Enhanced Event Searching: True “Google style” searching applies relevance scoring and makes suggestions that help users easily calculate deadlines, even when the “triggering event” is not obvious.
• Reporting: Users can run a variety of PDF reports based on preferences (e.g., filtered by date, by case, by event) from the new “View Deadlines” page.

Usability and navigation enhancements include:

• Overall Website Navigation and Usability: Based on the fact that Deadlines.com is 100% web-based and often accessed remotely, keeping navigation intuitive and fast were main goals of the upgrade. Deadlines.com provides users with logical navigation to the most frequently visited areas including Coverage, Deadline Calculations, FAQs and Pricing.
• Updated User & Screen Interface:  Deadlines.com is as useful to paralegals, legal secretaries and solos as the user interface is intuitive and easy to use. Many of the jurisdiction and event selection screens have been graphically enhanced so users can quickly find what they need in a simple, straightforward fashion.

With Deadlines.com, attorneys, administrators, paralegals and legal secretaries can easily and painlessly generate a complete list of court deadlines by selecting just a few pieces of information such as case name, jurisdiction, event (e.g. trial) and date.

“Deadlines.com is easy to remember and even easier to use,” said David Kalmick, President and CEO of CompuLaw LLC and Deadlines.com. “After nearly two years of working with professional designers, our programming team and listening to thousands of users’ suggestions, we are thrilled to launch this new and improved, feature-rich website, all based on our clients’ feedback and input. The original site was developed to give solos and smaller firms, who often lack an IT infrastructure, rules based technology options that rival those that the larger firms use for automated calendar management. The new Deadlines.com gives firms even more flexibility and an affordable, effective weapon in battling the leading cause of malpractice claims – calendar related errors.”