Deadlines On Demand

LOS ANGELES – April 29, 2010 –The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a patent directed to Deadlines On Demand’s online legal deadline calculation service, entitled ”METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGEMENT OF COURT SCHEDULES,” Patent No. 7,668,863; Filed July 22, 2002.  This Patent addresses the unique technology that CompuLaw created for the Deadlines On Demand online court rules deadline calculation service.

The Patent covers CompuLaw’s unique method for generating and transmitting a calendar of different legal events capable of occurring in the course of a legal proceeding over a wide area network, that make use of formulas and relationship tables to efficiently and accurately calculate legal deadlines. Further, the Patent details CompuLaw’s methods related to issuing reminders by email, pay-per-use billing, and more.

“CompuLaw pioneered online court rules calculations,” said David J. Kalmick, President and CEO of CompuLaw LLC. “Our library of related patents is a clear indication of our leadership. We offer unmatched performance and accuracy to attorneys and legal professionals, along with the most extensive library of rules databases available from any vendor. Calendar-related errors are the leading cause of malpractice claims against attorneys, according to the ABA . CompuLaw is committed to helping attorneys reduce their risk by leading the market with the most cutting edge court rules and calendar technology.” 

CompuLaw also holds the following U.S. and foreign patents related to rules technology:
• METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING RULES AND TRANSMITTING CHANGE NOTIFICATIONS (U.S. Patent No. 7302433 and U.S. Patent No. 7580937)
• METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COURT DATE CALCULATION ENGINE (U.S. Patent No. 7171416)
• METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGEMENT OF COURT SCHEDULES (Australia Patent No. 2002330911).

A wholly owned subsidiary of CompuLaw, LLC, DOD is designed to help solo practitioners and law firms save time and protect themselves from legal calendar-related errors. More than 100,000 legal professionals have registered as DOD users, having performed thousands of deadline calculations. DOD incorporates CompuLaw’s extensive library of rules databases, which includes jurisdictions in all 50 states, including State, Federal, Appellate, Supreme Court, Bankruptcy, Probate and Family Law and much more. CompuLaw’s rules database library is the largest and most comprehensive available.  For the complete list of CompuLaw rule databases, visit http://www.compulaw.com.

  1 American Bar Association Survey, “Profile of Legal Malpractice Claims”

December 7, 2009 – Joseph C. Scott, J.D., Vice President and General Manager of Deadlines On Demand, LLC/CompuLaw, LLC, was recently appointed to the Organization of Legal Professionals’ (OLP, http://www.theOLP.org) Board of Governors. 

Mr. Scott will join a blue ribbon panel of thought leaders in the legal arena, including Browning Marean (DLA Piper LLP); Tom O’Connor; Douglass Mitchell (Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP); Peter del Valle (Seyfarth Shaw LLP); Ron Friedmann (Integreon Managed Solutions, Inc.); Anne Kershaw; Joe Thorpe (International Litigation Services); Nigel Murray (Trilantic); Professor Jay Grenig (Marquette University Law School); The Hon. Mark Cavanagh (Michigan Court of Appeals); Jeff Fowler (O’Melveny & Myers LLP); Linda Klein (Past President, Georgia State Bar Association); Arnold Blair (WilmerHale); Karen Willenken (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates); and many others.

“The most recent malpractice survey published by the ABA lists court calendar/deadline-related errors as the leading cause of malpractice claims - so rules-based calendaring technologies provide today’s legal professionals with a valuable defense mechanism,” said Joseph C. Scott, J.D., Vice President and General Manager, Deadlines On Demand, LLC/CompuLaw, LLC. “Like DOD, the OLP is dedicated to helping the legal community use the best of current technologies to advance and succeed, and we are so pleased to be working with them.”

About The OLP
The OLP drives education, best practices and provides professional certifications for those involved in the practice support of complex litigation.  Through its programs, OLP insures that the requisite level of competency in such complicated disciplines such as ediscovery and trial support, among others, is met.

About Deadlines On Demand, LLC
Founded in 2003, Deadlines On Demand, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of CompuLaw, LLC. Both companies are based in Los Angeles, California. The DOD service, available at http://www.deadlines.com, provides accurate, reliable rules-based legal deadlines on a pay-per-use basis to help protect small law firms and their clients from missing critical court dates. For more information about Deadlines On Demand, call (888) 363-5522 or visit http://www.deadlines.com. For more information about CompuLaw®, CompuLaw Vision™, CompuLaw Rules™ or other CompuLaw products, call (800) 444-0020 or visit http://www.compulaw.com.

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CONTACT:

Joseph C. Scott, J.D., Vice President and General Manager
CompuLaw, LLC / Deadlines On Demand, LLC
Phone: 800-444-0020
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Address: 10277 W. Olympic Blvd.
P.O. Box 67720
Los Angeles, CA 90067

Chere B. Estrin, Chairperson, Board of Directors
The Organization of Legal Professionals
Phone: 818-566-4222
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Address: 11271 Ventura Blvd. #411
Studio City, CA 91604

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LOS ANGELES – October 29, 2009 – The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued U.S. Patent Number 7,580,937 for Deadlines On Demand’s court rules Change Notification Service (CNS), entitled ”Method and Apparatus for Updating Rules and Transmitting Change Notifications.”  Deadlines On Demand, LLC (“DOD”), the leading automated court rules-based calendaring service on the Internet, launched CNS in early 2005 to alert their users of recent court rules updates which may impact deadlines on their calendars.  This service automatically sends emails to DOD users when rules changes impact one or more of the deadlines created by their DOD date calculations.  The CNS also provides a convenient link to rerun each search that was affected.

CNS emails provide timely notification for court rules updates that may be descriptive, authoritative or may change users’ actual deadline dates.  The service helps attorneys maintain accurate court deadlines, which is important because failure to properly calculate court dates associated with changing rules is one of the leading causes of legal malpractice claims. 

A wholly owned subsidiary of CompuLaw, LLC, DOD is designed to help solo practitioners and small firms save time and protect themselves from legal calendar/deadline-related errors. Today, more than 100,000 legal professionals are registered DOD users, having performed thousands of deadline calculations. 

“Deadlines On Demand is designed to help solo practitioners and small law firms compete with mega firms – those with unlimited staff and resources,” said David J. Kalmick, president and CEO of CompuLaw. “Our sophisticated CNS servers monitor all user-researched dates so busy attorneys do not have to waste time constantly checking and re-checking court rules for updates or changes. DOD users have peace of mind knowing that their calendar is kept up to date.” 

DOD incorporates CompuLaw’s extensive library of rules databases, which includes jurisdictions in all 50 states, including State, Federal, Appellate, Supreme Court, Bankruptcy, Probate and Family Law and much more. CompuLaw’s rules database library is the largest and most comprehensive available.  For the complete list of CompuLaw rule databases, visit http://www.compulaw.com.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LOS ANGELES - February 6, 2009 - Deadlines On Demand, LLC (“DOD”), the only court rules-based calendaring service on the Internet with a patented system for automated rules update notifications, recently announced their 2008 record-breaking rule set statistics: 346 rules updates (nearly 4,000 separate updates to rules) and 91 new jurisdictions across the United States, including Illinois, Indiana, California, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Michigan, New Mexico, Georgia and Tennessee.

With more than 100,000 registered users, DOD is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CompuLaw, LLC. Because the technology behind DOD includes CompuLaw’s patented, award-winning software and extensive library of rules databases, law firms trust DOD to deliver accurate, time-tested results. DOD provides deadline calculations for jurisdictions in all 50 states, including State, Federal, Appellate, Supreme Court, Bankruptcy, Intellectual Property, and much more.

“CompuLaw and Deadlines On Demand offer the largest national court rules database available today, and our technology is specifically designed to provide legal professionals with high-level tools for monitoring their cases and minimizing their malpractice risk,” said Joseph C. Scott, J.D., Vice President and General Manager, Deadlines On Demand, LLC/CompuLaw, LLC. “We make tracking critical dates and deadlines simple.”

For the complete list of rules databases offered by Deadlines On Demand and CompuLaw, visit www.compulaw.com.

About Deadlines On Demand, LLC

Founded in 2003, Deadlines On Demand, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of CompuLaw, LLC (founded in 1978). Both companies are based in Los Angeles, California. The DOD service, provides accurate, reliable rules-based legal deadlines on a pay-per-use basis to help protect small law firms and their clients from missing critical court dates. For more information about Deadlines On Demand, call (888) 363-5522.  For more information about CompuLaw®, CompuLaw Vision™, CompuLaw Rules™ or other CompuLaw products, call (800) 444-0020 or visit www.compulaw.com.

Instead of scrambling to stay on top of the court calendar, attorneys at smaller firms can master the task with only an Internet connection. These services save time and reduce errors, while protecting clients and law firms alike from the dangers of missing a crucial deadline.

Click here to read the article “The Risks and Rewards of Calendaring for Small Firms” as it appeared in the January 2009 edition of the Valley Lawyer.