How does Perlegis compute procedural deadlines?
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You pick the practice area, the proceeding and the party you act for, then give the date the term runs from — usually service. The engine applies the rules of that procedure, generates the whole chain of derived deadlines, and cites the rule applied for each one. Backward terms are counted from the hearing; forward terms from the starting date.
Does it account for weekends, public holidays and the August suspension?
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Yes. Every generated date is rolled if it falls on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday, in the direction the term runs, and the 1–31 August suspension is applied wherever the procedure provides for it. The event card always shows the raw date, the effective date and the reason for the shift.
Does automatic computation relieve me of professional responsibility?
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No, and it does not claim to. Perlegis is a support tool: the proposed dates must be checked by the practitioner, who remains solely responsible for meeting the terms. That is why every deadline shows the rule applied and the steps of the computation rather than a bare date — it is meant to be checked, not taken on trust.
What happens when a hearing is adjourned?
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You record the adjournment with the new date and Perlegis recomputes the whole chain of terms that depended on that hearing, including briefs counted backwards. Deadlines already completed stay on record; superseded ones are updated. You do not rewrite the matter.
What does the assistant do, and what does it not do?
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You talk to it in one box, like any assistant: draft a pleading, add a hearing, ask what is in a matter. The request stays in chat with whatever it prepared. It can read the document you attach, scans included, and pull out dates, parties and the proceeding — or find the matter if you name it, with no file in chat. Before answering it looks at what the firm already holds: it searches the archive for the judgments, opinions and pleadings on the point and reads them. It also answers questions about using Perlegis, from the manual, with a link to the section. It does not file anything, does not decide for you, and saves nothing to the diary until you confirm: when something is missing it stops and asks. The column board remains as a secondary view.
Which legal sources does the assistant work from?
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Eleven: ten public and one by the publisher’s permission, all on from the start, each with its own switch in Preferences. Normattiva for consolidated national legislation: every national act in force, about 80,000 including the Constitution, the 40 codes, the 260 consolidated acts and the 52 constitutional laws, is held in a local copy, each with its own reference, so the assistant searches them by concept and reads an article as it stood on a given date. The regional laws of Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Calabria, held in a copy of the three regional Councils’ databases, searchable by citation or by concept and readable article by article; the other Regions not yet, because their texts carry no open licence. EUR-Lex for EU regulations and directives in Italian and for the judgments of the Court of Justice and the General Court. The Constitutional Court for every decision since 1956, with its official headnotes, held in a copy of the Court’s open data. The administrative-justice open data for the reference and the outcome of Council of State, TAR and CGA decisions. The CNEL for the reference of every deposited collective agreement — code, parties, dates — without the text. INPS for its circulars and messages since 1969, by topic or by number: the reference and the subject line, with a link to the official page, without the text. The Agenzia delle Entrate for its circulars and resolutions since 2006, rulings answers since 2018, principles of law and legal-advice answers, held in a copy refreshed every day, with the text the assistant reads and cites — and with the Court of Cassation and tax-court judgments those acts cite. The notes of the ANCI-IFEL foundation on local taxes — IMU, TARI, the single municipal levy, collection — since 2010: the title, the date and the summary, with a link to the note, without the text, and with the warning that they are the municipalities’ reading. The articles of TuttoCUP, Archivia Solution’s portal on the single municipal levy, with their text, by the publisher’s permission, and with the warning that they are the reading of a company that works for the municipalities. The Gazzetta Ufficiale for the notification alone that an act exists as of today. Turn a source off and the assistant stops consulting it. On top of these, a web search across institutions and the legal and tax press tells it whether a point has been in the news lately: it is on for everyone and turned off from the same panel.
Does the assistant do case-law research? Will it tell me the Court of Cassation’s position on a point?
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On the Constitutional Court, yes, in full: it holds every decision since 1956 with the Court’s own headnotes, and cites them by number, year and headnote. On administrative case law it reaches the reference and the outcome of Council of State, TAR and CGA decisions: the outcome, not the reasoning, which that portal does not publish. It does not read the Court of Cassation’s judgments, and that is not a question of price: the CED’s terms prohibit automated and AI processing of its documents. An answer about the Cassation’s settled case law built without its headnotes would read like research and be invention. We would rather write that here than let you find it out on a live matter. On tax matters it knows one precise thing: which decisions of the Cassation and of the tax courts the Agenzia delle Entrate’s acts cite, with the reference and the sentence of the act that cites them — the Agency’s reading, and the Agency is a party to every tax dispute — and a button that opens the court’s database to check them. What it can do, with the web search, is tell you whether the specialised press has reported a decision: the report, with its link, not the judgment read — which you still read in the original. Your firm’s own archive is different: what you uploaded there — pleadings, opinions, the decisions in your own cases — the assistant searches before answering, reads and cites like any other document of the firm.
Does the assistant also search the web?
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Yes — to find out whether a point has been in the news lately, such as a judgment just out, a circular or a reform — and only after looking at the firm’s archive and the public databases. It searches only institutions (the Gazzetta Ufficiale, Parliament, ministries, the Revenue Agency, regulators) and the legal and tax press, never case-law databases whose terms forbid it. Only the text of the search leaves the firm: a search containing the name of a party or client, a case number or a tax code is blocked before it is sent. The pages it finds are cited as web sources, with their link, and never stand in for the judgment or the provision they discuss. It is on for everyone, can be turned off under Preferenze → Fonti giuridiche, and each search uses one or two credits.
I have a One LEGALE or DeJure subscription — does Perlegis use it?
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No. Perlegis holds no subscription to the commercial databases and does not use yours. One LEGALE’s licence forbids reproduction of its content, even temporary and partial, and the site publishes a machine-readable text-and-data-mining reservation: that is a prohibition we respect, not a feature we lack. The sources the assistant reads are public and citable — national legislation, EU law, the administrative-justice open data — and your own database stays where it is, in the browser tab next door.
Are the legislative texts it shows me official?
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No, and every answer says so. The texts come from Normattiva, whose licence requires the attribution and the notice that the published version is not official: in case of a discrepancy the text printed in the Gazzetta Ufficiale prevails. The citations are not composed by the assistant: the identifier comes from fetching the source and the assistant can only carry it through, so an invented judgment number never reaches the page. A checkable fact with no source — a date, an amount, a docket number, a name — stays flagged, and the answer cannot be exported.
Do deadlines reach my own calendar?
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Yes. The Sync section gives you a link to subscribe from iPhone, Mac, Google Calendar or Outlook: hearings, deadlines and reminders appear there with your device’s native notifications. The calendar you receive is always read-only — editing stays in Perlegis — and you choose what to export, including generic titles for shared screens.
Is there an iPhone and Android app?
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Yes, and it is published: download it from the App Store or Google Play. It uses the same account and the same data as the web app — calendar, matters, clients, assistant and archive — with push notifications and document scanning from the camera. Sharing, backup and subscription are handled in the web app. If you would rather install nothing, Perlegis also works from a phone browser.
Can I share my calendar with colleagues?
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Yes — read-only or full access. The permission is checked where the data is kept, not only on the screen: without a valid share your calendar is invisible, and a read-only share cannot change anything by any route. Revoking takes effect immediately.
Where is my firm’s data stored?
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On servers in the European Union, encrypted in transit and at rest. One firm’s files cannot be reached by any other firm, nor by any other user of the platform. Backups are encrypted, and you can export your data at any time from the Backup section.
Does Perlegis replace the Italian PCT or my practice-management software?
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The practice-management part, yes; the PCT, no. Perlegis keeps matters, clients, diary, deadlines, the document archive and the assistant in one place — the part of a practice-management system you use every day — but it does not file documents with the court, keep the books or issue invoices: the PCT and your invoicing software stay where they are. From the PCT side, Perlegis reads your court files through Polisweb, without filing anything. If you already run a practice-management system, Perlegis sits alongside it: your data can be exported whenever you want, and nothing holds it.
Does Perlegis read my court files from Polisweb?
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Yes, on both plans. From the Polisweb page in the application you download a small program for Windows or Mac and install it on the computer where you use your digital-signature key or smart card: it needs the authentication certificate you use to sign in to the PCT access points “with digital signature” — remote signing with an OTP code is not enough. A guide takes you from the download to the first sync in about ten minutes. You choose the courts to search: type the city — “Salerno” — and tick its tribunal, justice of the peace and court of appeal, without scrolling through the whole district; Perlegis also suggests the ones where you already have matters. From then on the program reads, on its own, once a day, with the computer on and the key inserted, the files you appear in before tribunals, courts of appeal and justices of the peace — civil litigation, employment, non-contentious proceedings, enforcement and insolvency; not the Court of Cassation, the administrative courts or criminal cases — and Perlegis links them to your matters; when a case is not in Perlegis yet, it prepares the matter already filled in — parties, docket number, court, judge, next hearing — for you to check and save. New registry events are flagged and hearings are put to you: they reach the diary only if you add them. The certificate and the PIN never leave your computer, and the program only consults: it files nothing, requests no copies and pays nothing.
How much does Perlegis cost?
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One plan, two ways to pay it: €49.99 a month plus VAT per practitioner, or €549.89 a year plus VAT — twelve months for the price of eleven. Everything is included: deadline engine, diary, matters, clients, assistant, archive with 5 GB of storage, calendar sync, sharing, backup and rule updates. If you need more room, 10 GB blocks cost €4.99 a month. For a firm with several practitioners, write to us: it is set up on request. There is also a free plan — no expiry, no card — with 5 clients, 5 open matters, 250 MB of archive and 40 credits a month.
How much document storage do I get, and what if it runs out?
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The subscription includes 5 GB of archive storage, which goes a long way because the archive keeps the extracted text rather than every scan at full resolution. When you need more, 10 GB blocks cost €4.99 a month (€54.89 a year) and can be removed at any time. Usage is always visible in the archive.
What can I do on the free plan?
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The whole deadline engine, across every practice area, with adjournments and chain recalculation: that part is not limited. The limits are on the rest — 5 clients on file, 5 matters open at a time, 250 MB of archive with files up to 25 MB, and 40 assistant credits a month. Filing a document spends those credits, because a scan has to be read by a model and everything filed is classified: once they run out a document is still archived and still searchable, only without the automatic labels. The plan does not expire and needs no card; if you cancel Premium the account returns to it, your data stays accessible, and the limits apply only to new entries.
Can I import deadlines I already have?
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Yes, from the Backup section: you can upload a previously exported archive. For new matters the quickest route is assisted extraction, which reads the filing and proposes the dates and the proceeding for you to confirm.
