MyCase Tasks & Deadlines

FOR EVERY ACTION THERE IS AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION

In our world, that means that for every task we complete, we should be adding another task in response.

Initial Pleadings

• Deadline for receiving answer & counter petition (if we are petitioner)
• Deadline for serving answer & counter petition (when we are respondent)

Motions

• Deadline for our motion documents (both if it is our motion or we are responding to the motion)
• Deadline for OPA/OPP motion documents (both if it is their motion and if they are responding to our motion)
• Deadline to receive Order following motion (should be 90 days from date of hearing)

Discovery

• Deadline for responding to / serving discovery responses (when we’ve received discovery from OPA)
• Deadline for OPA/OPP to respond to / serve discovery responses (when we have sent OPA a discovery request)

Mediation

• Deadline for signing and returning mediation agreement.
• Deadline for client to pay mediator
• Deadline for documents to be sent to the mediator.

Scheduling Order / Trial

• ALL deadlines outlined in the scheduling order
  • *If the scheduling order does not include deadlines for tasks like exchanging exhibit list and witness list, filing exhibit list and witness list, exchanging exhibits, uploading exhibits to MNDES, then we need to create our own deadlines to stay ahead of it and enter those deadlines as a task. Talk to your attorney to decide for sure what they want to use but as a general guide, you can use the following:
    • Exchanging exhibit list and witness list with OPA: 2 weeks prior to pretrial or 4 weeks prior to trial (if no pretrial)
    • Exchange final exhibit list, final witness list, and all exhibits with OPA: 1 week prior to pretrial of 3 weeks prior to trial (if no pretrial)
    • File and Serve exhibit list and witness list: prior to pre-trial hearing or 2 weeks before trial (if no pretrial)
    • Upload all exhibits to MNDES and share with OPP/OPA: 5 days before trial.
  • Deadline for trial funds from client
  • Deadline for Court’s order following a trial (90 days from date of final submissions)

Correspondence

• Any deadline given to OPA/OPP in a letter or email
  • *If we send a letter/email to OPA/OPP and anticipate a response but perhaps haven’t given a specific deadline, we should still be setting a task to indicate we are waiting on OPA/OPP response. Example: “Did OPA respond to letter re: vocational assessment”
• Deadline for client to respond to a letter/information from OPP/OPA. For example, if OPA emails us a letter with a counter proposal and we’ve shared with client and sent them a message saying “Hey, got a response from OPA which is shared in mycase. Take a look at it and let us know what you think and if you want to set up a time to talk to attorney.” We should set a task that we’re expecting a response from our client “Did client respond to proposal/message?”

Miscellaneous

• Any deadline we’ve given to our client. Examples: deadline for clients to get us discovery docs, deadline for clients to provide us with exhibits, deadline for clients to let us know if they want to proceed with a temp relief hearing.
• Deadline for Court to sign any stipulation (technically 90 days for date of filing)