How Cedent finds deadlines and statutory dates
Cedent reads your email and documents for the dates that matter — hearings, filing and response deadlines, court dates — and surfaces them so they do not slip. The dates it finds reach your calendar through your review, never silently.
What Cedent looks for
Section titled “What Cedent looks for”As email comes in, Cedent reads each conversation for the most consequential date it carries, and distinguishes the kinds that matter most:
- Court dates — hearings, trials, case management conferences, and the like.
- Filing and response deadlines — when a response is due, a filing cutoff, a stipulation deadline.
It reads these out of the body and context of your correspondence, and out of the documents on a matter.
How a found date reaches your calendar
Section titled “How a found date reaches your calendar”A date Cedent reads from email does not drop straight onto your calendar. It comes to you first as a suggestion in your review queue. You confirm it, and it becomes a calendar event with reminders set automatically. This keeps a misread date from ever cluttering your calendar without your say-so.
Deadline chains from a hearing
Section titled “Deadline chains from a hearing”Some deadlines follow from a hearing by rule rather than appearing in an email. For a hearing date, Cedent can calculate the chain of dependent deadlines that hang off it — the filing cutoff, service deadlines, opposition and reply dates — using the applicable California rules. You trigger this from the hearing, and Cedent lays out the dependent dates for you.
Everything traces to its source
Section titled “Everything traces to its source”A deadline Cedent read from email keeps a link back to the message it came from, so you can confirm it against what was actually said. See Verifying a deadline against its source.
Common questions
Section titled “Common questions”Does Cedent add deadlines to my calendar automatically? No. A date Cedent finds comes to you as a suggestion to confirm. You approve it before it becomes a calendar event — and you can always add one yourself.
A deadline was mentioned in an email but I don’t see it. The email may be waiting in your triage inbox rather than filed to the matter, or the date may be sitting as a suggestion to confirm. You can also add it by hand — see The calendar.