Every hearing arrives by email. You still have to see it.

A missed hearing is every firm's nightmare. Yet the information was there, in an email from the court registry, received weeks earlier. The problem is never the information: it's extracting it.

Why the calendar drifts out of sync

Summonses arrive as attachments, in varying formats, across several mailboxes. The person who receives them isn't always the one who pleads. Between receipt and calendar entry there is a manual operation, and every manual operation eventually gets skipped on a busy day.

The manual method that works (if you stick to it)

• ✓Every summons is entered in the calendar the day it is received, never "later".
• ✓The entry includes the court, the case number and reminders at D-7 and D-1.
• ✓A weekly review cross-checks the calendar against active matters.

Automatic detection

A tool that reads the mail can spot summonses and notices in the flow (including in scanned attachments), extract the date, time and court, and suggest the event for the calendar, attached to the right matter. The suggestion remains a suggestion: the firm confirms, and the calendar becomes a faithful reflection of the mail. That is what Mailatio does.