Originally Posted by Standalone

I'm not dissing this particular lawyer. My only experience with jury duty has been sitting in a room for a full day while some lawyers exercise some brinksmanship and add to their billable hours to stretch out a civil case as far as possible before coming to a settlement that could have been arrived upon long before I had to miss work and waste a day...

Our system is set up to draw out the legal process. As an avowed liberal, I have quite a tolerance for bureaucracy, but something needs to be done about this!