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Judges and Time Management??

By Peter Olson

Why in 90% of courtrooms do judges just set like 80% of cases at 9/930/10am? If you practice where I practice, every status hearing in most courtrooms gets set at the same time so you have 30 cases scheduled for say 930am. So inevitably those courtrooms get backed up and time gets wasted.

There's one judge I appear in front of a lot who does things differently and it's not rocket science. She spreads cases evenly in 15 minute increments from say 9am to 12pm. So there's not 30 cases at 930am and then 5 the rest of the morning. There's 2 cases at 15 minute increments and her call moves along swimmingly!

Full post as published by Solo In Chicago on September 29, 2008 (boomark / email).