Is an email response equivalent to 15 minutes of
docketed time, but a phone call is docketed by the minute?
Hourly rates and
docketed time provide an objective standard for placing a value on legal service to be provided / received.
The cost award requested was calculated at 60 per cent of the reduced
docketed time expended on the certification motion.
It also allows users to easily
docket time for meetings, phone calls, and research, reducing the administrative burden of docketing considerably.
It also allowed judges to free up
docket time for more complex cases.
In other words, students should not only learn, for example, how to
docket their time; but also WHY lawyers docket time.
Previously the local family courts were pretty uniform about requiring mediation for all cases that required more than two hours of
docket time.
Due to reduced
docket times and the necessity to have DSS merits cases heard within a particular time frame, I am increasingly having my trials cancelled within weeks of trial, and often not getting rescheduled until months later.
Not only has it been an excellent way for me to hone my mediation skills, and other volunteers to hone their mediation skills, but Judge Segars - Andrews informs me that mediation has been resolving about half the cases that are mediated, freeing up badly needed
docket time and reducing the imposition on court - appointed lawyers who represent defendants in these cases.
CONSIDER
DOCKETING TIME Most real estate lawyers do not track or docket the time they spend on real estate files.
Some corporate - commercial lawyers do not track or
docket the time they spend on files.
Run a conflicts check; diarize deadlines; document the client's instructions, your advice and the steps you take; and
docket your time (even if you won't bill it).
Students must know how to use trust accounts, prepare witness statements and
docket their time.
If your staff doesn't
docket time, you can measure its performance by tracking the number of letters sent per day against all the letters sent by clerks.
They decide which projects to work on and they work on their own schedule,
docketing their time and earning about or just under $ 50 per hour.
Not exact matches
I'll be keeping this recipe on the
docket for the next
time I want a special pasta.
This paper has uncovered that there has been an unusual upsurge in recent
times of mysterious disappearance of
dockets and records at the various court registries in the country.
Mike's cousin is getting married this weekend so we have lots of family
time on the
docket.
I've enjoyed the rest but with NO plans on the
docket this weekend (unheard of) I thought it was
time to change that.
[Laughs] Well, we had a great Runaways script and a great Runaways story, which is why we ended up hiring Drew Pearce to do Iron Man 3, but we have so much else on the
docket that there's not a slot of
time for that right now.
For instance, one of the items already
docketed by the ED for applicants to address is how the new common assessments will «be able to be maintained, administered, and scored at a cost that is sustainable over
time.»
-- # 1: Skype or similar (with Facetime & tc)-- Great Apps... really great apps — Augmented Reality — More really amazing Apps like «What's Up» (see it if you haven't)-- Things you can only do on the Playbook (multitasking based apps, real
time apps, security apps, video DJs, face recognition)-- MindManager as native (subsidise it, if needed — BBs and Playbook appeal to this market)-- Find on Page / Find in Document / etc. — Categories for photos — Improved File System access and Search — Include a
docket for your choice of deluxe case (keep a good profile)-- Hardware acceleration for secure sockets — Properly communicate the Enterprise value of current Bridge.
Between lunch and dinner
times, high tea and an excursion to Kimberley were on the
docket for us.
Fans will definitely notice the faster loading
times, but an expanded stats screen is also on the
docket:
Normally abbreviated sessions are devoted to minor matters, but this
time, there's a doozy on the
docket.
Intending to read that book has been on the
docket for me for some
time.
Docket Alarm's advanced analytical capabilities, customizable real -
time litigation alerts, case prediction indicators, and technology - driven research tools complement Fastcase's quest to add unique, must - have content for its subscribers and provide leading legal analysis with contributions from firm partners across the country.
We decided at the last partnership meeting (which you missed because you were in Dubai with the CEOs of XXXX) that you're not a good lawyer because you
docketed only 10 hours of billable
time last year.
[1] If the settlement is in the best interests of the class and the retainer agreement provided for, say, a one - third contingency fee, and was fully understood and agreed to by the representative plaintiff, why should the court be concerned about the
time that was actually
docketed?
This free search tool provides an interface to PACER, while actually improving on the service with features such as real -
time universal search, aggregated search results and one - click downloads of entire
dockets.
You have missed a comprehensive Cloud based PMS (NETEZLAW) http://www.netezlaw.com that has extensive features and functions including
Time and Matter Management, Trust Accounting, Document Management, One to One Marketing, Collaboration with whiteboard capability and soon to have a briefcase capability to enable matters on the
docket available locally.
In announcing the acquisition, the company said:
Docket Alarm's advanced analytical capabilities, customizable real -
time litigation alerts, case prediction indicators, and technology - driven research tools complement Fastcase's quest to add unique, must - have -LSB-...]
Cunningham also invested in voicemail and
time docketing software.
In November 2002, Bennett expressed concern that not all of her billed fees were collected from clients and that some
time dockets were incorrectly entered.
Beyond making the litigation process more efficient for businesses, a business court would remove
time - consuming cases from the regular
docket, helping to clear a clogged court system and improve the civil justice process for every Georgian.
Like those other modules, the new products liability module uses data derived from court
dockets to provide insights and show trends in areas such as case
timing, resolutions, findings, and damages for injuries caused by product defects.
[A] n online marketplace that allows lawyers to connect with qualified service providers — the «heroes» — who can help lawyers with a one -
time matter or ongoing tasks so that they can «clear their
docket.»
The latest entry is
Docket Alarm, which allows for real - time tracking of any docket you tell it to follow and full - text search of federal, bankruptcy, patent trial board, and international trade commission deci
Docket Alarm, which allows for real -
time tracking of any
docket you tell it to follow and full - text search of federal, bankruptcy, patent trial board, and international trade commission deci
docket you tell it to follow and full - text search of federal, bankruptcy, patent trial board, and international trade commission decisions.
Often, with the traditional legal model,
time is
docketed in the heat of the moment and approval sought after the fact.
HAMALENGWA — Findings of Professional Misconduct — While representing a difficult client who was charged with first degree murder, the Lawyer was eligible to bill the Ministry of the Attorney General for fees and disbursements pursuant to a Fisher order — The Lawyer's accounting, billing and
docketing systems were deplorable and bore no relationship to his billings to the Ministry — The Lawyer engaged in professional misconduct by billing the Ministry for attendances at court when he had not attended or attended for less
time than he claimed; overbilling for legal research; billing for services that were not properly billable as legal services; overbilling for student assistance disbursements he had not incurred; overbilling for fees and disbursements that were not fair and reasonable; and submitting a document to the Ministry purporting to be an invoice from a student working under his direction when the invoice was not prepared by the student and the services were not rendered as described in the document.
It is an alternative to a
docket appearance in court before a judge when an applicant files a claim for a parenting order, guardianship order, contact order or an order to enforce
time with a child under the Family Law Act.
Once the case is filed, if the parties are unable to resolve it by agreement and the case goes to trial, often
times the trial will not be put on the court's
docket until almost a year after filling.
The
dockets of the Ontario Court of Justice remain crowded and in some jurisdictions, particularly in large urban areas which have seen significant population growth, the
time to trial has actually increased unacceptably.
In order to have the hearing, the court official had to pull up the electronic
docket, see my name on the file, and see that it was listed for 12:30 p.m. Despite this, he or she simply changed the
time and allowed the court to proceed with a hearing without mentioning anything to the judge.
I have in the past complained about the abysmal lack of online access to Canadian court
dockets at the same
time as trying to compile a list of known links to Canadian court
dockets to my Case Law research page on my legal research and writing website.
Today's issue of The New York
Times has this article by Linda Greenhouse on the Supreme Court's dwindling
docket (12/7/06).
I saw the same thing throughout the EXPO Hall, with
time tracking software, secure communication software, e-discovery software,
docketing software, lead - generation services, scanners, and more.
While it could have done that on its own, it would have taken a lot of
time and a lot of money to acquire and code the
docket information and court filings.
Most
dockets are overloaded with cases, so many
times the first hearing on a case is a judge's first opportunity to really dig into the facts of the case.