One of the hardest things people have to deal with is the fact that the legal process is notoriously slow. Unlike Criminal procedures that ensure that a defendant is guaranteed a speedy trial, most other legal proceedings tend to take a while to manifest themselves.
Most areas of law have various deadlines that must be met in order to ensure that the cases are advanced. However, depending on the nature of the proceeding, several steps may need to occur before you seek a resolution.
This situation is even more pronounce if you’re attempting to file a civil suit. If you think about it, you file your suit. The other side has time to respond. Then you go through discovery where each side has to reveal certain things. During that time, you may have a few depositions. Then, you may have to go to mediation. Then, if you get to this point, you have to get ready for trial. THEN, you have the trial. All of the steps I just took you through could easily take up to year.
People, when you avail yourself of the legal process, you HAVE to go in with an understanding that it may take a while to seek a resolution. And when I say “A WHILE”, it’s not by YOUR standards of what you think “A WHILE” is. Typically, most legal processes are governed by some rules of procedure that outlines what must happen and WHEN it is going to happen.
It gets tougher because now that we are in a tough economic time so you have a definite desire to get the resolution that we desire as soon as we like. Understand this, you have a right to seek a resolution through the legal process but be patient. In order to get the outcome you seek, you may have to wait for it to come.
