Atkinson Baker Deadline Calculator: Where the Filing Date Calculator Went, and What to Use Instead
The Atkinson-Baker deadline calculator is still online. It is published by Veritext now, under the name filing date calculator, and the old depo.com address redirects to it. It is a free day counter, and for a large share of the counts litigators actually run it stops one step short.
- Veritext acquired Atkinson-Baker in April 2020 and kept the calculator
- The version here adds the piece a plain day counter leaves out: the roll
- Rolls forward for periods after an event, backward for periods before one
Counting toward a California motion hearing with the service extensions applied? The California court deadline calculator carries those presets. For a pure court day count with no calendar day step, use the court days calculator, and for the FRCP 6(a) federal count the court deadline calculator.
This day is excluded from the count, exactly as FRCP 6(a)(1)(A) and CCP 12 require.
Running this count across a whole docket instead of one matter? Caseagent keeps every matter deadline current inside the case file.
Service method extensions are not applied here. Compute the base period first, then add the extension the rule gives you. Local rules and standing orders vary, so confirm any computed date against the governing rule before you calendar it.
Dates you enter here are processed in your browser and never stored.
The Atkinson-Baker calculator did not disappear
The Atkinson-Baker deadline calculator is now the Veritext filing date and deadline calculator. Veritext acquired Atkinson-Baker in April 2020, and the firm's old web address, depo.com, redirects to the Veritext calculator page. The tool is still free and still works: you pick a state, enter a start date, enter a number of days between 1 and 1,000, choose before or after, choose all days or business days, and it returns a date.
What it does not do is apply a court rule. It has no motion type, no service method and no roll. It hands you a raw date, and if that date lands on a Saturday or a judicial holiday it is your job to know whether the deadline moves forward or backward. The calculator at the top of this page does the same count and then finishes it.
Last updated September 2026
Why your bookmark now says Veritext
Atkinson-Baker was founded in 1987 by court reporter Sheila Atkinson-Baker and managed in partnership with her husband Alan. It grew into one of the largest court reporting firms in California and a nationwide deposition network. Veritext acquired it in April 2020, and Veritext's own announcement describes the firm as known for its reporter and independent contractor network and its client relationships.
1987
Founded
Sheila Atkinson-Baker, a court reporter, starts the firm in California. The free deadline calculator becomes one of its best known giveaways to litigation staff.
April 2020
Acquired by Veritext
Veritext announces the acquisition, pointing clients toward remote proceedings, paperless exhibit sharing and its online repository.
Portals
ABI Online Office to MyVeritext
Veritext publishes acquisition redirect pages for the Atkinson-Baker partner portal and for the ABI Online Office, both pointing to MyVeritext.
Today
depo.com redirects
A request to depo.com lands on the Veritext filing date calculator page. Atkinson-Baker now trades as a Veritext company rather than independently.
This pattern is worth knowing about generally. Free deadline calculators are marketing tools published by court reporting and litigation support vendors, so they follow the vendor through acquisitions and rebrands. The Todd Olivas & Associates deadline calculator, another one that circulated widely in California offices, no longer resolves at all. If your calendaring depends on a free page somebody else pays for, it can move or vanish without warning.
Six inputs, one date, no rule
Read off the tool's own instructions in September 2026. It is a competent day counter with real per jurisdiction holiday lists, and it is honest about being nothing more than that.
| Step | What it asks | What it means for your count |
|---|---|---|
| Country | United States or Canada | Selects which holiday tables load. The tool serves both markets from one page. |
| State or province | All 50 states, DC, Federal, or a Canadian province | Real per state lists, which is more than most free counters carry. Federal is a separate selection. |
| Start date | The date you count from | Excluded from the count. Their own example: five days from March 1 returns March 6. |
| Number of days | Any number from 1 to 1,000 | You supply this. The tool has no idea which rule you are counting or how many days it gives you. |
| Before or after | Two radio buttons | Handles backward counting, which many free calculators cannot do at all. |
| All days or business days | Two radio buttons | All days counts weekends and holidays. Business days skips them as it counts. You decide which the rule means. |
Note the instruction the page leads with: clear your browser cache before you start, so you are running the current version. That is a fair warning about a tool whose holiday tables get updated in place.
A blocked deadline moves, and not always forward
Count a plain number of calendar days and the last day will sometimes land on a Saturday, a Sunday or a judicial holiday. Every procedural system says the deadline then moves to the next open day. The part that trips people up is the direction, because it flips depending on whether you counted forward or backward.
Counted forward from an event
The deadline gets later
An answer due 21 days after service, a discovery response due 30 days after service, a notice of appeal due 30 days after entry of judgment. If day 21 is a Sunday, you file Monday. FRCP 6(a)(1)(C) continues the period to the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, and 6(a)(5) defines that next day as the day after when the period is measured after an event.
Counted backward from a hearing
The deadline gets earlier
A motion served at least 14 days before the hearing under FRCP 6(c)(1), or California notice periods counted back from a hearing date under CCP 12c. If the computed service day is a holiday, you do not gain a day by serving after it. Under 6(a)(5) the next day for a backward period is the day before, so the paper has to go out sooner.
The exception worth memorizing
California discovery deadlines roll toward the trial date, not away from it
Code of Civil Procedure section 2016.060 says that when the last day for an act under the Civil Discovery Act falls on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday, the time limit extends to the next court day closer to the trial date. Because discovery cutoffs are counted backward from trial, closer to trial means a later calendar date. So the discovery cutoff rolls later while a notice period counted backward from the same trial date rolls earlier. Two deadlines, one blocked day, opposite directions. Our Los Angeles court date calculator chains the whole pretrial sequence with that rule applied.
Same count, different last step
Four counts run on the federal holiday list. The raw column is the date a plain day counter returns. The filed column is the date the rule actually requires once the roll is applied. Verify any of these in the calculator at the top of this page.
| The count | Raw last day | Why it is blocked | Deadline after the roll |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 days after service on Friday, May 7, 2027 | Friday, May 28, 2027 | Open. No roll needed | Friday, May 28, 2027 |
| 21 days after service on Monday, May 10, 2027 | Monday, May 31, 2027 | Memorial Day | Tuesday, June 1, 2027 |
| 30 days after service on Thursday, June 3, 2027 | Saturday, July 3, 2027 | Saturday, then Independence Day observed Monday July 5 | Tuesday, July 6, 2027 |
| 14 days before a hearing on Tuesday, July 6, 2027 | Tuesday, June 22, 2027 | Open. No roll needed | Tuesday, June 22, 2027 |
| 14 days before a hearing on Monday, July 19, 2027 | Monday, July 5, 2027 | Independence Day observed | Friday, July 2, 2027, which is earlier |
The last row is the one that costs people motions. A backward period that lands on a holiday does not give you an extra weekend to get the papers out. It takes one away.
Four jurisdictions, four different closed day lists
Picking the wrong holiday set is a quiet way to get a date wrong, because the answer still looks plausible. California recognizes five more judicial holidays than Florida does, and Texas applies no observed day shift at all, so a Texas holiday that falls on a Saturday simply stays on the Saturday.
| Jurisdiction | Authority | Holidays | The ones people forget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | CCP 135 | 14 | Lincoln Day, Cesar Chavez Day, Native American Day, the day after Thanksgiving |
| Texas | Gov't Code 662.021 | 15 | Texas Independence Day, San Jacinto Day, Lyndon Baines Johnson Day, and no observed day shift |
| Federal courts | 5 U.S.C. 6103 via FRCP 6(a)(6)(A) | 11 | Columbus Day and Juneteenth, both often missing from generic business day counters |
| Florida | F.S. 110.117 via Rule 2.514(a)(6)(A) | 9 | Neither Presidents Day nor Columbus Day is on the list |
In 2026 there are 261 weekdays. After judicial holidays come out, Florida has 252 court days, the federal courts 250, Texas 248 and California 247. Full detail on each list is in the court days calculator. One more wrinkle the federal rule adds: under FRCP 6(a)(6)(C), for periods measured after an event, a day declared a holiday by the state where the district court sits also counts as a legal holiday.
One date is free. A docket is a product
A free day counter answers a single question well. What it cannot do is track hundreds of live deadlines across dozens of matters, recalculate the chain when a trial date moves, or tell you that a rule changed. Prices below were read off each vendor's own page in September 2026.
| Tool | What it is | Knows the rules? | Published price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veritext filing date calculator (formerly Atkinson-Baker) | Free day counter with per state holiday lists | No. You supply the number of days | Free |
| Deadlines.com, powered by Aderant CompuLaw | Rules based calendaring aimed at smaller firms | Yes | $35 per case per month for one case, down to $20 at 30 or more. Unlimited users. Over 100 cases is a quote |
| LawToolBox | Rules based calendaring built into Microsoft 365 | Yes | $35 per user per month at 2 to 9 users on the annual plan, falling to $19 at 80 or more. Monthly billing starts at $42 |
| CalendarRules | Court rules engine that plugs into other systems | Yes | Quote only. The site is a request form |
| Casefleet | Litigation chronology and document review, with free deadline tools | Partly, through its free calculators | Starter $30 per user per month, Advanced AI $140, Enterprise by quote. Annual billing saves 22 percent |
The pricing models are genuinely different, which matters more than the headline number. Deadlines.com charges per case with unlimited users, so a two person shop with a heavy caseload pays more than a 20 lawyer firm with a light one. LawToolBox charges per user and gets cheaper as you add seats. If you are weighing a dedicated docketing product against the calendaring already inside your practice management system, our guide to legal calendaring and docketing software works through that trade off.
Atkinson Baker deadline calculator questions, answered
What happened to the Atkinson Baker deadline calculator?
It moved to Veritext and is now published as the Veritext filing date and deadline calculator. Veritext acquired Atkinson-Baker in April 2020, and the old Atkinson-Baker web address depo.com now redirects straight to the Veritext calculator page. The tool itself still works and is still free. Only the brand on the page changed.
Is Atkinson-Baker still in business?
Atkinson-Baker operates as a Veritext company rather than as an independent firm. It was founded in 1987 by court reporter Sheila Atkinson-Baker and managed with her husband Alan, grew into one of the largest court reporting firms in California, and was acquired by Veritext in April 2020. Scheduling, transcripts and repositories now run through Veritext systems.
Where is the Atkinson Baker filing date calculator now?
It is at veritext.com under the filing date calculator page, and the old depo.com address redirects there automatically. If you bookmarked the Atkinson-Baker calculator years ago, that bookmark still lands on a working tool. The page carries per state and federal holiday lists and a step by step set of instructions.
Is the Veritext filing date calculator free?
Yes. It is a free marketing tool published by a court reporting company, with no login and no account. You select a country and a state, enter a start date, enter a number of days from 1 to 1,000, choose before or after, and choose all days or business days. It returns a single date on a three month calendar.
Does the start date count when calculating a deadline?
No. The triggering day is excluded and counting begins the next day. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 6(a)(1)(A) states it directly, California Code of Civil Procedure section 12 says the same for state practice, and the Veritext calculator follows the same convention: five days from March 1 returns March 6, not March 5.
What happens if a court deadline falls on a weekend?
The deadline moves to the next day the court is open, but the direction depends on which way you counted. Under FRCP 6(a)(5) the next day is the day after when the period runs forward from an event, and the day before when the period runs backward from an event such as a hearing. A notice deadline therefore gets earlier, not later.
What is the difference between calendar days and court days?
Calendar days count every day including weekends and holidays, and you adjust only if the final day is closed. Court days skip weekends and judicial holidays as you count, so the period always spans more calendar days than the number in the rule. A rule always tells you which unit it uses, and mixing them up is one of the most common calendaring errors.
How do I calculate a court filing deadline?
Find the rule, read the number of days and the unit it uses, identify the triggering event, exclude that day, count in the stated unit, then check whether the last day is closed and roll it in the correct direction. Add any service method extension last, after the base period has already been computed and rolled. The discovery deadline calculator shows that order applied to response dates.
What is a filing date calculator?
It is a tool that converts a rule stated in days into a date on a real calendar. The useful ones apply the holiday list of the jurisdiction you are actually in, count backward as well as forward, and adjust a deadline that lands on a closed day. The weak ones are plain day counters that leave all of that judgment to you.
Can I still use my old Atkinson-Baker bookmark?
Yes, for now. A request to depo.com currently redirects to the Veritext filing date calculator. Redirects from acquired brands do get retired eventually, though, and the Todd Olivas deadline calculator that many California offices also relied on no longer resolves at all. If a free page is load bearing in your calendaring process, it is worth having a second source.
The calculator gives you one date. The case file has the rest
Every deadline starts in a document: a proof of service, a notice of hearing, a scheduling order. Caseagent puts an AI agent inside the case file so the documents that create the deadline are the same ones that drive the calendar, instead of somebody retyping dates into a free web form.
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