--- title: "Court Dates and Filing Deadlines in One Calendar" description: "Hearings, filing deadlines and attorneys' calendars in one Microsoft 365 view. Your docketing rules set the dates; Virto Calendar App shows them." url: https://www.virtosoftware.com/use-cases/court-calendar-calculator/ language: en-US last_modified: 2026-10-22T00:00:00+02:00 translations: de: https://www.virtosoftware.com/de/use-cases/court-calendar-calculator/index.md --- # Court Dates and Filing Deadlines in One Calendar A court calendar for law firms in Microsoft 365: hearings, filing deadlines and attorneys' calendars in one view. Your docketing rules and your people set the dates; Virto Calendar App shows them. Available at: SharePoint Microsoft Teams Microsoft Azure Illustrative court deadline counted thirty days from a filing: Reply to motion, due 12 November. Trusted by Industry Leaders Warner Bros. Disney Sony UC Berkeley Motorola Teck Resources US Treasury University of Pittsburgh NASA Stockholms Stad FedEx Zespri and over 8,000 businesses worldwide ## Comprehensive Legal Calendaring Simplify the complexities of legal calendaring and ensure your team is always prepared for upcoming court appearances, filings, and other time-sensitive tasks. The screens show a litigation team's docket of hearings, filing deadlines and a trial on a demo calendar in our own tenant. ### Unified court date management #### Centralized court deadline calendar Consolidate all court deadlines in one intuitive interface, making it simple to oversee and visualize critical dates across multiple cases and jurisdictions. #### Customizable timetables Change a date where it is kept, or move it by drag and drop in the calendar. Everyone who opens the calendar sees the current date; nobody works from an outdated copy. ![Virto Calendar App, Month view of the Case docket (demo) calendar for three weeks from 26 October to 15 November 2026: docket entries coloured by type, filing deadlines in red (Expert disclosures · 25-CV-2290, Opposition due · 26-CV-1042, Reply brief due · 26-CV-0877, Motion in limine due · 26-CV-1042, Discovery cutoff · 26-CV-0877), hearings in blue (Hearing · 26-CV-1042 Avery v. Lane, Sentencing · 25-CR-3310), conferences in teal, Trial · 25-CV-2290 Harbor Corp from 2 to 4 November in purple, firm meetings in green and US holidays in grey](https://www.virtosoftware.com/images/use-cases/court-calendar-calculator/calendar-month.webp) Every case's deadlines, hearings and trial dates in one calendar, coloured by type and numbered by case. ### Reminders on the dates in your docket #### Reminders before each date Virto Alerts & Reminder App sends email and Teams reminders a set time before the hearing and filing dates in your SharePoint docket list, so the team is prepared ahead of critical dates. #### Alerts when a date changes When a date in the docket list is moved, Virto Alerts & Reminder App alerts the people responsible, and summary emails list what is coming up. Virto Calendar App itself sends no notifications. ![Virto Alerts & Reminder App, the Options of a new reminder on the Case docket list: the condition Type equals Hearing, send on a date depending on the Date field, 3 days before, a separate email for each item, at 08:00 Pacific Time](https://www.virtosoftware.com/images/use-cases/court-calendar-calculator/hearing-reminder.webp) The reminder rule: an email 3 days before each hearing in the docket list, at 8:00 in the morning. ### Enhanced Microsoft 365 integration #### Microsoft Teams and M365 compatibility Access your legal calendar directly within your existing Microsoft ecosystem, promoting better collaboration and information sharing. #### Multi-source overlay Court dates and deadlines are drawn next to Exchange and Outlook calendars, SharePoint lists and a Google Calendar through its iCal feed, for a comprehensive view of all commitments. The sources are read where they are, not copied. ![Virto Calendar App, Edit calendar for Case docket (demo), General tab: two SharePoint data sources, Case docket in blue and Firm meetings in green, the collapsed sections Exchange settings, Filter Exchange events by status and Google calendars, and Internet calendars with the US holidays iCal feed](https://www.virtosoftware.com/images/use-cases/court-calendar-calculator/calendar-sources.webp) The docket and the firm's meetings from SharePoint lists, holidays from an iCal feed; Exchange and Google calendars are one section away. ## Key benefits ### Unified legal deadline calendar Hearings, filing deadlines and client meetings from several sources are overlaid in one calendar: the firm's docket list, the attorneys' Outlook calendars and iCal feeds such as public holidays. See dates across cases and jurisdictions in one place; the dates themselves come from your docketing rules and the people who apply them. ### Customizable filing date calendar Create flexible timetables for court dates with Virto Calendar App. Move a date by drag and drop, keep recurring events for ongoing cases, and everyone sees the change the next time they open the calendar. Reminders about the change come from Virto Alerts & Reminder App. ### Alerts and reminders from your docket list Stay ahead of court deadlines with Virto Alerts & Reminder App: email and Teams reminders before the dates in your SharePoint docket list, alerts when an item changes, and summary emails of what is coming up. ### Secure team collaboration Access follows the permissions of each SharePoint list and Exchange calendar, so each team member sees the court dates they are entitled to. Co-counsel and clients can be invited as SharePoint guests; there are no anonymous links. Calendar content stays in your Microsoft 365 tenant, and Virto Calendar App does not store it. ### Multi-platform calendar integration Overlay Exchange and Outlook calendars, SharePoint lists, Planner and iCal feeds, such as a Google Calendar, in one legal calendar. An iCal feed is read-only; changes are made in the calendar it comes from. ### Flexible calendar views and meeting integration Choose day, week, month, year or Year Quarter views, or put several sources side by side. Create a Microsoft Teams meeting straight from an event kept in an Outlook calendar, or open a Zoom or Google Meet meeting from its event. ## When Virto Calendar App fits — and when it does not | Real-life scenario | Best fit | Why it works | | --- | --- | --- | | Every hearing and filing date across the firm's cases — Court dates are kept in a SharePoint docket list, and each attorney has their own Outlook calendar. | Virto Calendar App M365 | The docket list and the attorneys' calendars are overlaid in one view, so a partner sees which cases have hearings this week and who is in court when a new date is set. | | Public holidays next to internal deadlines | Virto Calendar App M365 | Holiday calendars added as iCal feeds are drawn alongside the firm's deadlines, so a date that falls on a public holiday stands out. | | A reminder before each filing deadline | Virto Alerts & Reminder App | Virto Alerts & Reminder App emails the attorney or group responsible for the case a set number of days before the date in the docket list. | | Calculating deadlines from court rules | A rules-based docketing system | Virto Calendar App does not calculate deadlines from court or procedural rules. 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