▎ what bar_date does — and what it will not do
Every deadline you see here is derived from a hand-curated table of the actual code sections — Cal. Civ. Proc. § 335.1, Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.003, N.Y. C.P.L.R. § 214, and so on. The AI does not fabricate citations. If your state or claim class is not in the indexed table, the tool returns "unknown — attorney review required" instead of guessing.
When any of seven high-stakes conditions trip — minor tolling, government defendant, discovery-rule ambiguity, statute of repose, wrongful death, out-of-state incident, or prior counsel of record — bar_date refuses to issue a final calendar. Instead it drafts a short escalation memo for your supervising attorney and only unlocks the .ics export after the attorney signs off. The tool is deliberately built to be smaller than the decision.
▎ workflow, in six lines
- Paralegal opens bar_date at intake, types
$ bd > new --state CA --claim pi --incident 2025-04-12 --dob 2010-08-03 --defendant municipalor hits TAB for the guided form. - bar_date echoes back the primary SOL statute with the exact code section, the computed cliff date, and the notice-of-claim window if the defendant is governmental.
- If the plaintiff was a minor at incident, minor-tolling is applied per that state's tolling statute and a new tolled cliff is drawn on the runway.
- If any high-stakes flag trips, a red ATTORNEY REVIEW REQUIRED band overlays the runway and a memo draft is generated.
- Paralegal marks "attorney signed off: [name] [date]" on the intake once the memo is countersigned.
- bar_date then issues the .ics with 90 / 60 / 30 / 7-day drop-dead reminders and saves the case to the firm's intake ledger.