Legal calendaring software that reads the deadline out of the document
Jural reads served pleadings, scheduling orders, notices and contracts, pulls out the dates that matter, and proposes calendar entries with reminders and an assignee on each one. An attorney confirms every computed date before it counts. The firm gets one matter calendar built from the documents themselves, instead of dates retyped from a PDF late in the afternoon.
Dates found where they actually live
Deadlines rarely arrive as calendar invites. They sit in the last paragraph of a summons, in a table inside a scheduling order, or in a renewal clause on page fourteen of a supply agreement. When a document is uploaded to a matter, Jural looks for the dates and triggers inside it and lists each one with the sentence it came from.
- Response dates on complaints, petitions and motions, with the service date that starts the count
- Hearing, conference, mediation and trial dates from notices and scheduling orders
- Discovery cutoffs, expert disclosure dates and dispositive motion deadlines
- Contract notice periods, renewal windows, option exercise dates and termination notice requirements
- Statute of limitations reminders the attorney enters for a matter, with the basis noted
A proposed date, a source and a confirmation
Each extracted deadline shows the triggering event, the period stated in the document, the date Jural computed, and a link to the exact passage. Nothing lands on the calendar as a firm deadline until an attorney confirms it, edits it or rejects it. The confirmation is recorded with the name and time, so later anyone can see who approved a date and what it was based on.
Reminders and owners on every entry
A deadline nobody owns is a deadline at risk. Each confirmed entry has a responsible attorney and an assignee, usually a paralegal, plus reminders set by the firm's defaults, for example 30, 14, 7 and 1 days before. Related tasks such as drafting the answer, sending discovery responses or serving the notice of non-renewal can hang off the deadline, so the work and the date travel together.
From uploaded document to confirmed calendar entry step by step
- Upload a document to a matter, or let it arrive through legal intake software
- Jural reads the document, including scanned pages through OCR, and lists every date and trigger it finds
- For each item it shows the source passage, the stated period and a computed date
- The responsible attorney confirms, adjusts or rejects each proposed date
- Confirmed dates go to the matter calendar with an assignee and reminders
- Changes, continuances and new orders update the entry, and the history shows every version
- The firm-wide view shows the next 7, 30 or 90 days across all matters the user is allowed to see
Calendar views the whole firm can read
Attorneys see their own deadlines and those of their matters. Paralegals see what they are assigned. A managing partner sees the firm's upcoming dates by attorney, so a two-week vacation does not leave an answer deadline uncovered. Every view respects per-matter access walls, so a screened lawyer never sees dates from a matter they are walled off from. Each user can subscribe to their confirmed deadlines from their usual calendar app through a private feed.
Contract deadlines for transactional practices
Not every deadline is a court date. For transactional and in-house style work, Jural pulls notice periods and renewal windows from executed agreements during ai contract review software and turns them into reminders. "Ninety days before the end of the initial term" becomes a computed date the attorney confirms, with the clause linked, so a client is reminded in time to send its notice of non-renewal.
What Jural does not replace
- It does not replace court rules calendaring review. Response periods, service rules, holidays, local rules and judge-specific orders vary, and an attorney confirms every computed date against the rules that apply.
- It does not treat an unconfirmed date as a deadline. Until a person confirms it, the entry is marked as proposed.
- It does not file anything with a court or serve anything on a party.
- It does not know about orders or notices that were never uploaded. A date the firm never received cannot be found.
- It does not give legal advice. Proposed dates and computations are drafts for attorney review.
Who keeps the calendar in Jural
Docketing clerks and paralegals use it to process incoming documents the day they arrive and route proposed dates to the responsible attorney. Litigators use the matter calendar to plan briefing and discovery around confirmed dates. Transactional attorneys use it for notice periods and renewal windows across a client's contract portfolio. Solo attorneys use it because they are their own docketing department and want a second set of eyes on every incoming document.
Built for handoffs
When a matter changes hands, its calendar goes with it. The new responsible attorney sees every confirmed deadline, every proposed date still waiting for review, and who confirmed what. Reassigning a paralegal moves their open tasks and reminders in one step, so nothing is left with someone who no longer works on the file.
Deadlines on every plan
Deadline extraction, attorney confirmation, reminders and the matter calendar are included in Solo, Firm and Enterprise. Firm adds per-matter access walls and a shared firm calendar across every attorney. Enterprise adds custom roles, audit log export and data retention controls. Pages read for deadlines count toward the plan's analysed pages for the billing period. Yearly billing is the default and saves 50 percent: $24, $49 and $99 per user per month. See ai legal assistant pricing.
FAQ
Jural computes a proposed date from what the document states, and an attorney confirms it against the court rules that apply before it counts.
The entry stays marked as proposed, the assignee and the responsible attorney get a reminder, and it never shows as a confirmed deadline.
Yes, scanned PDFs go through OCR, and every proposed date links to the passage in the scan where it was found.
Yes, each user can subscribe to a private feed of their confirmed deadlines, and the matter calendar in Jural stays the record.
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