Courtlook User Guide

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To learn more and/or sign up for Courtlook

Check out the Courtlook Premium Services page at http://www.judici.com/service/pricing.jsp?SERVICE_ID=1.

Feature availability comparison

Note: Secured cases (i.e. sealed, impounded etc) are not available, under applicable Illinois policy

Attorney accounts 

Accounts associated with an attorney registration number (ARN) can:

• • Use the link to the My Schedule page to see a monthly calendar.  The number of hearings on a day (if any), will appear as a link on each day.  Click such a link, and the schedule for the day will be shown.

  • Use the link to the My Cases page to see a list, by default, of all of your open cases.  If you need to see a list which includes your closed cases, you can change the drop-down menu to either "Closed" or "All".

Does every attorney need a separate subscription?

Yes.  Online case document access is limited to the attorney of record under Illinois policies governing online access to court data

Admin staff accounts

Courtlook accounts not associated with a particular ARN can't see documents, but they can access everything else.  To get case lists and schedules, you just have find your attorneys first:

Use Courtlook search to select your attorneys

Go to the Courtlook search page and search for an attorney.  Most courts use a format of lastname, firstname.  Remember that different courts may use nicknames (e.g. Smith, Jim vs. Smith, James).  

Use the check boxes at the left to select those you were seeking.

Viewing the the case list or schedule for the selected attorneys

Click the Schedules or Case List radio buttons near the top of the page, then the Get Selected button.  The resulting page can be bookmarked for easy access.

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How do you subscribe to an iCalendar feed?

Option 1: click the  iCal button.  This is easy, but it may not work.  Outlook (or other desktop calendaring programs installed on your computer) may be set up to automatically launch and add that calendar. 

Option 2 (if option 1 doesn't work): add the feed manually.  Most calendar tools (e.g. Outlook, Google calendar etc) provide a way to do this

• 1. Right-click on the iCal button and copy the link location/address/URL.  If you paste the copied link text somewhere, you see something beginning with "webcal://" and ending in "calendar.ics".

  2. Check the help resources for your calendar tool to learn how to use that URL to subscribe to the calendar. , here are some links which may help you set things up:

• • Google- see the "Using a link" section of this help page.  You may need to change the end of the link to "google_calendar.ics" instead of "calendar.ics" in order to get it to work.

  • Outlook 2007- Microsoft's help is here, or you can watch this video

  • Outlook 2010- Microsoft's help is here, or you can watch this video

  • Outlook 2013- the process is described here.  Or you can watch a video showing how start the process here, [555] and how to finish it here. [555]

  • Outlook 2016 (per a Microsoft support post): click File >Account Settings > Account Settings>Internet Calendars > click New. Paste or enter the address for internet calendar

  • Outlook Web App- look for Microsoft's help on subscribing (not importing) a calendar here. [555] Or you can watch this video

Troubleshooting iCal feed issues

See Troubleshooting Courtlook court data access issues

Case Watch- get e-mail notification of case updates

Our Case Watch service lets you subscribe to receive automatic e-mails whenever the court adds/modifies info on the case.  Legal professionals also use it to be aware of things like new filings (whether e-filed or not), hearings and docket notes. The general public can use this as a stand-alone service, for a fee of $2.99 per case.  As of fall 2016, Judici waives the charge for Case Watch subscriptions to all subscribers to our Courtlook service.

To subscribe to a case in Case Watch

At the top of the Case Information page on a case, click on the following button: 

 Once subscribed, you will receive a receipt e-mail confirming your subscription- if you don't, see the relevant  Case Watch troubleshooting tip found here. [Cnv- embedded image] [555]

If the subscription payment process comes up when you thought it would be free

Check your subscribed services on the Services tab on your account.  If you don't have a Courtlook subscription, then Case Watch subscriptions won't be free. 

To unsubscribe from a case

Use the link at the bottom of all Case Watch e-mails, or click the link at the far right of Check the Services tab on your account

If you want notification e-mails to go to a different address

If you don't see any e-mails

See the relevant  Case Watch troubleshooting tip found here.

Case file document access

Any Judici account associated with an attorney registration number can access online documents from the case file.

Which courts offer this?

 All of  the courts which participate in Judici offer online documents.

Where are the documents found?

Once you click a case number link, the page you see will have tabs at the right side of the page to access different kinds of data (Information  | Dispositions  | History, etc).  If your account is associated with the attorney of record listed in the court's records for that case, this will include a "Docs" tab from which you can view the documents. 

Not seeing documents on your case(s)?

See Troubleshooting Courtlook court data access issues