Section
Events & Deadlines
Dates that matter to a record: court deadlines calculated from rules, hearings, and personal dates, all on your calendar.
You'll find this section on a case, a lead and a contact.
The Events & Deadlines section records dates connected to a record, and every event here also lands on the Task Calendar, so nothing lives only in someone’s head.
What an Event Records
Each event has a type (drawn from the event types your firm manages in Settings), plus a description, a location, the date (an all-day entry, or a timed one when you uncheck All Day), and participants: the contacts involved, so a hearing knows who’s appearing. Event types cover both:
- Legal dates: hearings, filing deadlines, statute dates (the dates that drive the work on a case).
- Personal dates: birthdays, anniversaries, and other relationship dates, typically on a contact.
Deadlines Hang Off an Event
On a case, an event can carry its own deadlines, each with a title, a due date, and an assignee, so a deadline is always somebody’s responsibility. The event’s date is the trigger the deadlines are calculated from.
When you add a deadline, Outlaw offers the deadline rules that apply (the rules assigned to the case’s court(s), plus your case-type rules) and computes the due date from the trigger. There’s also a built-in calculator for one-off deadlines: offset from the trigger in calendar or business days, with rollover direction and inclusive-start/end options for matching how your jurisdiction counts. Set courts and their deadline rules up once in Settings (Cases → Courts and Deadline Rules), and cases get consistent, rule-derived deadlines instead of hand-counted ones.
The Client File
Case dates (hearings, deadlines) are facts of the representation and travel with the case. In the client portal, clients see their calendar of case events.
Where You’ll See It
Events & Deadlines appears on a case, a lead, and a contact. The mix leans legal on cases and leads, personal on contacts; the section works the same way in each.