Legal Tools

Legal calculators on the roadmap

These are not built. Read this page as a scope note. It is public so that the people it is aimed at can push back on the direction while pushing back is still cheap.

What is being scoped is the repetitive, checkable kind of work that eats a paralegal afternoon. Counting a deadline forward from a filing date, with weekends and court holidays handled by whichever rule set governs the matter. Prorating a fee across a partial period. Turning an agreed settlement figure into a payment schedule with dates and running balances. Making citation formatting consistent across a document before it goes out the door.

Every one of these will be a calculator, and none of them will be legal advice. That belongs in the body of the page rather than in small print at the bottom. A deadline tool counts days according to a rule you select for it. It does not know your jurisdiction, your judge, or the procedural history of your matter, and confirming the result against the rule you are relying on stays your responsibility. Nothing built here will change that, and nothing built here will pretend otherwise.

Frequently asked questions

• Is any of this available today?

  No. Nothing on this page runs and there is no fixed timeline. What is real is the rest of the site, where the developer tools have been in use for a while and work the way these are meant to: open the page, type, read the answer.

• Will these tools give legal advice?

  No, and that is a hard boundary rather than a nervous disclaimer. They will perform date counting and arithmetic on inputs you provide. Selecting the correct rule, confirming it applies to your matter, and verifying the result before anyone relies on it is lawyer work. A calculator that suggested otherwise would be worse than no calculator.

• Will anything I type be stored?

  No. The client-side approach used across this site applies here without exception. The computation happens in your browser and the inputs never reach a server, so matter numbers, party names, and dates stay on your machine. That constraint is much of the reason these are worth building, given that most of the free alternatives are hosted forms that post your input somewhere you cannot see.

• Which jurisdictions will the deadline calculator cover?

  Undecided. Counting rules and court holiday schedules differ enough that supporting twenty of them badly would be worse than supporting one properly, so it will launch narrow and it will name exactly which rule set it implements. If the one you need is a specific jurisdiction, registering interest below is how that gets counted.