Court Days Pro - Rules-based Calendaring for La...
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Description
Court Days Pro is the first rules-based legal calendaring app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Court Days Pro provides attorneys and legal professionals with the ability to calculate dates and deadlines based on a customizable database of court rules and statutes. Once the rules are set up in the application, calculations are performed using a customizable list of court holidays.
Once you chose a triggering event (e.g., a motion hearing date) the application will display a list of all events and corresponding dates and deadlines based of trigging event (e.g., last day to file moving papers, opposition, reply briefs). Icons on the screen show the number of calendar days and court days from the current date for all resulting events.
By default, Court Days Pro is preprogrammed with a list of all federal holidays, but is fully customizable to allow the addition or removal of any court holiday to the list (e.g., Lincoln's Birthday in California State Court).
Adding, deleting, and modifying rules-based events in Court Days Pro is quick and easy, and was designed to allow multi-step calculations. For example, if you are calculating the deadline for filing a regular motion in California Superior Court, you can set the application to calculate back 16 court days, plus 5 calendar days, with the last day shifting backward to the next available court day, should it land on a weekend or holiday. You can set an unlimited number of calculations to be triggered by a single event.
Date results not only appear on the screen, but can be added to the device's native calendar app, and later revised or deleted from within Court Days Pro. Also, all results can be emailed straight from the application.
Future versions of Court Days Pro will allow the purchase of preprogrammed rules sets for certain jurisdictions by using in-app purchasing.
What's New in Version 1.01
Fixed bug that prevented application from loading on iPod Touch.
Customer Reviews
REVISED REVIEW: Now works on Ipod Touch 4th gen.
Originally gave this a 1 because it wouldn't run on iPod Touch 4th generation. Now it works! As for the program itself, I think it has great potential. Could be better at adding custom court holidays, like California's Court Furlough Days (3rd Wed of each month). Currently, it appears that you have to manually input each individual date, which will take some time, where it would be easier if you could specify the third Wed of each month and have those dates automatically added. Other than that, I think that with an hour or two of time you could have a pretty good calendaring calculator. I would also like to note that the developer contacted me within an hour or two of my original rating, and was very cooperative, which I think is a big plus. Maybe the developer could post hints and instructions on the support site, but I think with a certain amount of time I will be able to figure out matrixs for my various (litigation and probate) needs. I rate this 4 stars.
Awful app
This app is NOT worth spending ANY money on. You cannot use any jurisdiction but California. You cannot manually enter your own jurisdiction's rules. Donot waste your money!
Great Start to Helpful Application
So far, so good. I've gone ahead and calendared a couple of law and motion dates, trial compliance dates, and a timeline triggered by the service of a complaint. All of the dates went to my Ipad Calendar, and, from there, to my Google Calendar. The app crashed once in adding the dates to the calendar. However, I did not get too upset about that since I know this is a new app. Compared to the costs of Compulaw, Amicus, or Abacus, this may prove itself to be a very worthwhile app. Hopefully the developer has got a good team of litigators who will be able to get the add-in rules for big states like New York, California, etc., into the system and available for purchase. I am excited about the prospects of this app and look forward to seeing how it develops over time. Assuming it stays the course, I will be very happy to endorse this product within our bar association.
- $2.99
- Category: Business
- Updated: Mar 02, 2011
- Version: 1.01
- Size: 0.6 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Daniel Friedlander
- © 2011 LawOnMyPhone.com
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
