Team deadline management: owners, reviewers and backups

Firms grow, and with them grows the most dangerous question in legal practice: "who was handling this?". A deadline without a clear owner is a deadline that depends on luck.

Define clear roles

Every deadline should have, at a minimum:

• Owner: who prepares and files;
• Reviewer: who checks the filing before it goes out;
• Safety date: when the draft must be ready for review.

Plan for absences

Vacations, leave, hearings in other districts and even a sick day are predictable to some extent. Your system must allow you to transfer deadlines from one person to another, recording when and why. A transfer without history creates exactly the doubt you wanted to avoid.

Visibility for the manager

The partner or coordinator needs to see, on one screen:

1. The week's deadlines for each lawyer;
2. Deadlines without an owner;
3. Deadlines due within 48 hours without a draft.

Privacy within the team

Not every team member needs to see every case. Interns and associates can work only with what is theirs, while the firm's principal keeps the full view. This organizes the work and protects sensitive information.

How IntegraLegal solves this

In IntegraLegal, each deadline has owners, can be shared with other members and transferred with a complete history. The principal sees everything; each user sees what is theirs or what has been shared with them, with permissions set by the firm. Alerts reach whoever needs to act, in the system and by e-mail.

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Read also

• Final deadline: what it is and how to control it without relying on memory
• Legal team permissions: everyone sees what is theirs
• Court notices and publications: building a fail-proof daily routine

Notice: this content is for information only. It does not replace a lawyer's analysis of the specific case. Always check the legislation, case law and rules in force on the date of your consultation.