Posted On: October 29, 2005, 10:52 am CDT

Posted By: James Wilson

If you have ever been pursued and extorted via a frivolous lawsuit, you will applaud any and all efforts to bring about some legal reform for the civil legal system. The civil legal system in this country is in serious need of reform. Unlike the criminal system, under the civil system, you have no rights, you are guilty until proven innocent, there is no right to a speedy trial, and you have no legal recourse to go after those that brought the frivolous suit in an effort to recoup the tens of thousands (if you are lucky) to hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to defend yourself and/or your company. There are numerous bad attorney’s that have made careers of running up the hourly billings while advising their clients that they need to continue their efforts of filing motions, doing depositions, subpoenaing, etc all the while, advising their clients that they have hope and will win their lawsuit. Then there is Corp abuse of the system.
See this example: http://www.nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php
I have been involved in a frivolous suit for 3 years as of March '06. Each time we get close to trial, the plaintiff either does not comply with something that we require to defend ourselves, that file some new motion, add a new defenant, etc and the trail is again delayed and costs continue to mount. It is a self propagating system created by attorneys and judges (whom most are all ex-attorneys) and they have no interest in the reform as it is their livelihood â€" at our expense.