Every court date, procedural deadline and firm hearing in one calendar — with in-panel alerts, so no date is ever missed.
In short: for a lawyer, a missed deadline can mean forfeiting a procedural right and liability toward the client. 4lawyers gives you a dedicated calendar for deadlines and hearings: you record the court date, the deadline to file a document or to lodge an appeal, and the platform shows it, links it to the right matter and flags it in the panel in advance. The team calendar is shared, the secretariat has full visibility and every attorney knows exactly what is coming — no parallel calendars and no risk of forgetting a deadline.
A court date or procedural deadline noted in a separate calendar is easy to forget. 4lawyers links every deadline to its matter: when you open the matter you immediately see the next date, what was ordered at the last hearing and what must be filed by when. The deadline no longer lives apart from the case — it sits next to its documents and history, exactly where you look for it.
Correctly computing a procedural deadline and remembering it on time are essential. The platform flags in the panel, ahead of time, a court date, a document-filing deadline or the expiry of an appeal window. The responsible attorney and, optionally, the secretariat see the alert in the panel (clients receive no notifications), so no deadline slips through even in a packed schedule.
The overview — by day, week or month — shows all the firm's deadlines: the responsible attorney, the matter, the court and the type of hearing. Each attorney sees their own deadlines, while the secretariat sees everything to organize travel and internal hearings.
Beyond court dates, the platform tracks deadlines for lodging appeals — appeal, second appeal, challenge — and for filing procedural documents. You record the date from which the deadline runs, and the system shows the due date and brings it to attention via in-panel alerts. So decisions with irreversible impact on the matter no longer depend on memory or a calendar forgotten in a drawer.
You record the deadline linked to the matter, and the platform flags it in the panel ahead of the date. The date appears in your calendar, the team's and (optionally) the secretariat's, and stays visible right next to the matter documents.
Yes. You record the date from which the deadline runs (appeal, second appeal, challenge), and the system shows the due date and warns you in advance, so you do not miss the window to lodge the appeal.
Yes. Every deadline attaches to the matter it comes from. When you open the matter you immediately see the next date and the history of previous ones, without searching a separate calendar.
As lead attorney or secretariat, you have an overview of all the firm's deadlines — by day, week or month — with the responsible attorney and the matter for each one.
No. 4lawyers does not sync with Google Calendar or Outlook; deadlines are shown in the firm calendar in the panel, linked to the matter.
Yes. Through roles, the secretariat sees and organizes deadlines and hearings but has no access to the matter's confidential strategy notes. Details in the Law firm management section.
We set up deadlines, alerts and the team agenda together, so no deadline is ever missed.
4lawyers brings court dates, procedural deadlines and firm hearings into a single calendar, with automatic reminders, so no date is ever missed.
We are transparent — here is where 4lawyers is not (yet) the best fit:
A fit for law firms wanting a court-deadline calendar with procedural-deadline reminders in one place. For a generic calendar unrelated to matters, use a standard calendar app.
| Feature | Limit / scope | Indicative cost |
|---|---|---|
| Law firm management | Attorneys, associates, clients, roles, access | from $1/mo |
| Cases & matters (electronic file) | Documents, parties, courts, history | included |
| Court deadlines & calendar | Deadlines, hearings, procedural reminders | included |
| Fees & invoicing | Billable time tracking, fees, collections | from $5.5/mo |
| Multi-attorney firm | Roles, controlled access, overview | custom quote |
An honest comparison on the criteria that matter for a law firm.
| Criterion | 4lawyers | Clio | MyCase | PracticePanther | Smokeball |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firm and client management | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Electronic case file | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Court-deadline calendar | Yes | Yes | Limited | Limited | Yes |
| Billable time tracking + fees | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Role access + privilege + EU GDPR | Yes | Limited | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Romanian interface and support | Yes | No | No | No | No |
4lawyers brings into a single platform firm management, cases and matters, the court-deadline calendar, billable time tracking and fees — without combining several separate systems.
The deadline calendar links every deadline to its matter and sends automatic reminders days before a court date or the expiry of an appeal window, so no procedural deadline is missed.
Access is through personal accounts of the firm's members and the connection is encrypted over HTTPS. 4lawyers processes the data as a GDPR data processor; professional secrecy remains the firm's duty.
You start a timer directly on the matter or enter the time manually by activity. At period-end, you have exactly the billable hours accrued on each case, ready to bill under the chosen fee model.
Yes. You manage multiple attorneys and offices from the same account, each with their own matters and deadlines, with an overview for the lead attorney.
