Missing a court date is a common motif in legal malpractice.  Daniel Wise of the NYLJ reports that the Kings and Queens Civil Courts calendars are now online, that the balance of the NYC civil courts will soon follow, as well as many upstate City courts.

"The court system expanded its Web site yesterday to include information on cases in some lower courts. With the launch of the "WebCivil Local" section of the Web site, case history and other information is now available for matters in the Brooklyn and Queens branches of the New York City Civil Court and the Auburn City Court. A feature on the expanded site will permit attorneys to generate calendars of all cases pending in local courts that have been incorporated in to the system. Information on Civil Court cases in Bronx and Staten Island will be available in the fall. The Civil Court in New York County, which has a computer system that is more difficult to convert to Internet use, will be put online sometime later as will the state’s remaining 60 city courts and two District Courts, both of which are on Long Island. WebCivil can be reached through the E-Courts link on the court system’s Web site, www.nycourts.gov."