Keep every schedule, document, and date in order.

No. Esqase does not generate official bankruptcy forms and does not file with the court. It holds the case file around that work: the checklist for the chapter, the dates you set, the documents your client sends, and the retainer, so whatever you prepare and file elsewhere has one organized source behind it.

No. Esqase does not calculate deadlines from the bankruptcy rules. You set the date, typically as a task due a set time after the matter opened, and Esqase then tracks it on the task board and shows it on the firm calendar on its due date. Put the meeting of creditors on the calendar as an event and everyone at the firm who is on it gets one reminder at the lead time you chose.

Yes. Build a task list template with the steps a chapter always needs and due dates set relative to the matter's open date, then attach it to a matter template so every new case in that chapter opens with the same checklist running.

Through an intake form built around exactly what the schedules need. The client submits from any device, with no account or password to remember, and each file is saved into the Documents folder that upload question points at rather than into somebody's inbox. To stop chasing them, add a form step to a workflow: applying it emails the client the link and keeps reminding them on the interval you set until the form comes back.

Yes. A retainer sits in a trust or IOLTA account, separate from operating funds, with a ledger for that client behind the balance. The firm's fee leaves trust as a trust-transfer payment recorded against an invoice, so what the firm takes is always tied to a bill, and Esqase refuses any entry that would take that client's ledger below zero.

Yes, with custom fields. Add the fields your practice tracks and they appear on every matter of that category, so the chapter, the case number, and the trustee sit on the file itself rather than in a spreadsheet.