Work reaches you as an offer for one role on one proceeding. Accept it and the seat is yours. Then, a couple of days before the deposition, you’re asked a second question: are you actually going to be there?
Accepting an offer does not confirm your attendance. A separate confirmation request arrives about two days out and stays open against your name until you answer. The one exception: accept inside that two-day window and you’re confirmed on the spot — the offer screen tells you which case you’re in.
When an offer lands
It arrives twice at once: an email with a link you can act on without logging in, and a card under Proceedings → Action Required → Assignments (the dashboard shows it as an Offers chip; one reminder email a day counts what’s waiting). The emailed link acts as you, with no password behind it — the page opens on “Are you [your address]?” for exactly that reason — so don’t forward one.
You only see an offer while the role still has an open seat. Offers often go to several people, and if someone takes the last seat first, yours drops out of the queue and the emailed link says the role is filled.
The offer page shows everything you need to decide: type, date and time in the deposition’s own timezone, estimated duration, and where — with the approximate mileage from your mailing address for in-person work, or the service named for remote (joining details come after you’re on the job).
Saying yes claims the seat immediately — no confirm step, no undo. Saying no asks for a reason (comment required on Other) and settles the offer for good; staff can re-offer, but you can’t take a decline back. Either way the link is spent, and the next screen lists your other open offers so you can clear a backlog in one sitting. An unanswered link has no expiry date but dies on its own once the job moves past the point where it means anything — the seat filled, the job canceled, the session over.
Accepting puts the job under Proceedings → Active as Upcoming, on your Calendar, and opens the job page to you — files, location, thread. A remote job’s invitation email follows with the meeting details. From here, see running a proceeding.
The second step: confirming attendance
About two days out, the confirmation request arrives — an email link, a Confirmations tab in Action Required, and a banner on the job page, all leading to the same one-click screen.
The sweep runs nightly, so it lands between one and two days ahead rather than at exactly 48 hours, with a reminder if you haven’t answered a day before. Your job reads Upcoming the whole time either way — the Confirmations tab emptying is what tells you it landed.
Backing out after you’ve accepted
Open the confirmation request and take the cancel route (Cancel Assignment on the emailed page; Cancel, then Cancel Attendance in the portal). A reason is asked for, the seat releases immediately, your links for the job stop working, and it’s recorded against the job as a worker cancellation — staff have to re-offer if you change your mind. The option lasts until the job reaches Post Session.
If the date moves
Usually your seat is left alone: you get a rescheduled notice, and the new date is on the Summary tab — check it against your own calendar, because the entry you exported won’t have moved.
Staff can also reset the assignments with the reschedule. That clears your acceptance and confirmation and hands the job back as an open offer — the seat is genuinely open at that moment, not held for you, so re-accept promptly if you still want it.
Being offered the right work at all
In-person seats are matched by distance, measured from the mailing address on your profile against the Maximum Travel Distance in your preferences — where In-Person Proceedings must also be on.
If your mailing address can’t be matched to a map point, you silently stop being offered in-person and hybrid work. Onboarding blocks a bad address; editing it later on your profile does not — the save goes through, the coordinates clear, and nothing on your screen says so. Pick the autocomplete suggestion when you change address, and if you had to type one by hand, say so in a thread so staff can check you’re still coming up for in-person work. Remote matching ignores coordinates entirely.
