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Indigent defense case management

From the docket
to the report.

Public defense runs on a court day: a docket in the morning, screenings before arraignment, counsel appointed before the judge takes the bench. First Appearance follows that day, and the compliance numbers fall out of the work instead of being reconstructed at the end of the quarter.

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Quarterly figures

Measured from the work, each with the case list behind it.

0

Spreadsheets to reconcile

One record, read many ways, rather than four lists that drift apart.

92

Day rolling caseload

Every attorney's share of their cap, visible while you assign.

The court day

Built around how the work actually runs

01

Docket

Enter a whole docket at once. Defendants are matched against prior cases, and a person confirms every link before anything saves.

02

Jail roster

Work down the roster marking custody or clearing it, which the screening then weighs.

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Complaints

Search a charge catalog carrying statute, class, and penalty. The case category forms as you go.

04

Interview

Income against the guideline, assets against a local retainer benchmark, and a recommendation that shows its reasoning rather than just a verdict.

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Appointment

Assign counsel with each attorney's share of their cap visible, updating as you pick.

06

Courtroom

Record what happened by hearing type, and what follows is scheduled from the outcome.

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Case file

Notes, time, documents, tasks, and every court date in one place. Client contact is logged as part of the note, not as a second thing to type.

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End of day

One sheet per attorney, printed or emailed, with only their own cases on it.

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Billing

Time entered from a grid or from the case file. Rates come from the case category, and the CAFA day rate is counted once per day.

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Reporting

Every quarterly figure, with the case list behind it.

Also in the box

The parts nobody advertises

Deadlines from the rule

Windows computed from the statute, each showing its citation. A date set by agreement is recorded as such rather than flagged forever.

Your own calendar

Subscribe once and every hearing, deadline, and task appears in Outlook, Google, or Apple, and keeps itself current.

One email in the morning

Eight pretrials in front of the magistrate is eight lines in one message. An empty day means no message.

Documents

Titled by what they are, dated by the document rather than the upload, and private by default with links that expire.

Printed forms

Blank intake forms with the name, address, and charges already filled in, or the completed form ready to sign at the desk.

Two-factor

A code from a phone as well as a password, because this holds addresses, financial screenings, and privileged notes.

Compliance

Numbers that can be defended

Every quarterly figure prints with the cases behind it, grouped by month. When a number is asked about, the answer is a page rather than a search through last spring's notes.

Figures the system genuinely cannot see are marked as such rather than reported as zero. A number that excludes something says what it excluded and why.

The record

Findings are not edited

An indigency determination is a finding. Correcting one records a new screening that supersedes the old, so both stay on file and the change is part of the record.

Every change is logged with who made it and when, and the screen says who recorded a note or uploaded a document rather than leaving it in a table nobody reads.