Miscalendaring
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To prevent miscalendaring, the author will: 1) Learn date guidelines for different legal processes like filing, service, and responses and take notes for reference. 2) Utilize more than one calendar, including any official firm system and a personal calendar, to have multiple points to check dates. 3) Be prompt in adding and updating dates in all calendaring systems and set alerts for upcoming deadlines. 4) Regularly review calendaring systems, double and triple checking dates to avoid flaws.
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Miscalendaring
- 2. Know the guidelinesThe first step that I will take to prevent miscalendaringis to learn the various date guidelines for different processes. There are different lengths of time to calendar for each step. Dates for filing, for service (& this also varies depending on method), and for responses. Example of date guidelines. I will keep notes like this to reference when calendaring
- 3. CalendarsI will utilize more than one calendar so I have multiple points of reference to check. If the firm has an official electronic calendaring system I will learn it, utilize it and additionally maintain an individual work calendar (electronic, paper or otherwise). multiple calendars
- 4. PromptnessProcrastination can lead to problems so I will be prompt and immediately add dates and update all calendaring systems accordingly.
- 5. I will also set alerts to notify me in advance of upcoming deadlines. I will regularly review my calendaring systems, checking, double checking and re-checking my dates. x2- RE-Review
- 6. Proper calendaring in a law office is crucial. Flaws and failure in this system are simply not acceptable and I will be sure to take care in approaching it.