Sentences with phrase «long civil trial»

Today, any long civil trial is available in six months or less.

A year ago, the delay to certain long civil trials, such as a complex class action or commercial trial, was up to 22 months.

The False Claims Act case was tried over 45 days and is reported to have been the longest civil trial in the El Paso division.

Not exact matches

A long drawn out trial in civil court would have cost millions and would have eroded his name even more with accusers sitting in open court saying aloud things that aren't true.

Indeed, Kemner v. Monsanto was the longest running civil jury trial (according to Wikipedia) in U.S. history, ultimately ending mostly in Monsanto's favor after appeal.

The diversity of Andy's law practice is reflected in the variety of courses he has taught as a long - time member of the University of Maryland School of Law's adjunct faculty, including Torts, Criminal Law, Evidence, Civil Procedure, Trial Practice, and Appellate Advocacy.

He told the Star that he's hearing more and more stories of it taking much longer now to schedule civil and family matters in Superior Court — cases which do not carry the same constitutional right for a trial in a reasonable time.

Usually, a winning SLAPP defendant has to apportion fees attributable to SLAPP activities, but this decision allows the trial judge to award extra-SLAPP fees as long as the other activities were «on the contract» under Civil Code section 1717 for purposes of fee recovery in the entire litigation matter.

Apparently fed up with judges who sit on decisions for ever and ever, the government in Guyana is bringing in legislation, the Judicial Decisions Bill, that will place a 120 day absolute limit on how long after the conclusion of a civil trial a judge may take to release the decision.

The high cost and long delays associated with the trial of civil matters often make litigation an impractical method of resolving disputes.

Slaying the LTD Dragon Over 20 years ago, in response to an inefficient civil justice system, escalating legal fees, and long and excessive delays to reach trial, the concept...

So far, only three published studies have analyzed the association between brief readability and case outcome, 50 and no studies have analyzed that association in the trial courts, where most lawyers practice.51 Long and Christensen sampled 882 appellate briefs from the Supreme Court, federal appellate courts, and state supreme courts.52 Their dependent variable was the outcome of the appeal (affirmed or reversed), while their independent variable was readability measured by the Flesch Reading Ease score as calculated by Microsoft Word.53 For federal appellate and state supreme court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for federal or state court, standard of review, presence of a dissenting opinion, and readability of the opinion deciding the appeal.54 For United States Supreme Court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for constitutional issue, criminal or civil case, presence of a dissenting opinion, and opinion readability.55 They found no statistically significant correlation between readability and outcome in the briefs in their study.56

This week long seminar focuses on teaching young lawyers from around the country about trial advocacy skills in civil litigation.

In a criminal case, the assumption that the defendant is basically a law abiding person which applies in civil cases no longer holds true once probable cause has been demonstrated to an independent magistrate, even though the defendant is presumed innocent for the purpose of an ultimate trial.

Mark has had a long career as a civil trial lawyer, serving as a decorated Assistant United States Attorney, youngest partner at Finley Kumble, and founder and managing partner at Mark A. Cohen & Associates, a 30 - attorney multicity national litigation boutique firm.

Litigating a civil dispute in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice can be a very long process: it often takes years to reach trial.

For example, the utilisation of the cloud for the electronic filing of documents with the court has become widespread in the civil courts; juries in long and paper heavy criminal trials are often provided with iPads to relieve the excessive paper burden; and artificial intelligence has also been harnessed to ease the burden of disclosure review in complex fraud investigations such as Rolls Royce [1].

Needed is a civil service for law societies because a civil service is: (1) permanent; (2) an institution of continuously developing expertise; (3) charged with a duty of vigilance as to public need; and, (4) able to carry out programs requiring long - term development, including development that bridges bencher elections and requires the trial - and - error learning for which benchers are not equipped.

Section 653 does not spell out any procedure for resolving a dispute as to quantum; its process is, ex facie, summary but I do not think that it precludes an inquiry by the trial judge to establish the amount of compensation, so long as this can be done expeditiously and without turning the sentencing proceedings into the equivalent of a civil trial or into a reference in a civil proceeding.

The high cost and long delays associated with the trial of civil matters often make litigation an impractical method of resolving disputes.