Read an excellent blog post in the New York Personal Injury Law Blog about the thousands of attorney hours wasted each year at the Central Compliance Part (CCP) in Kings County Supreme Court (the civil trial court in Brooklyn).
Ten minutes worth of work can take hours as attorneys (myself included) twiddle their thumbs waiting for their cases to get called and the judge to sign orders. Wait, wait, wait. Then wait some more. That’s what we do.
And a big reason why we have to go there as often as we do is that the judges do not enforce their own orders. In the hard-knock world of New York City litigation, the attorneys go to court and an order is signed. Then opposing counsel routinely violates the order, and I must file a motion to compel and show up in court again to get a new order, and then my adversary violates it once more and so I trudge off to court once again, and so on ….
The ones who make out are insurance defense attorneys who get to bill their clients for time spent sitting around. Read more here.
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