Trial Calendar
A trial calendar is a schedule of court actions that is maintained by either the court clerk or the judge of such cases that are awaiting trial.
A trial calendar includes the dates of specific trials as well as the names of the attorneys who represent the various parties, the docket number, type of case (liability, probate, criminal proceeding, etc.), pertinent phone numbers, deadlines, etc.
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Many trial calendars today are posted online. These are maintained by various jurisdictions, law schools and even law firms; a brief Internet search should bring up trial calendars for hundreds of jurisdictions.
As the U.S. population has grown, so has litigation as well as the number of criminal trials. Unfortunately, the wheels of justice and the efficiency of the courts have failed to keep pace. While jurisdictions make every effort to get a case to trial within a reasonable period of time, the unfortunate fact is that some injury lawsuits take years to reach the courts.
This situation is nothing new; according to a 1954 article in the Stanford Law Review, the span of time between the filing of a complaint and bringing the case to trial in metropolitan New York was thirty-three months as of 1950. By 1953, the delay had grown to over four and a half years.
Aside from the time and expense involved in a trial, this kind of backlog and corresponding delay is one reason that parties are encouraged to settle out of court whenever possible, or consider arbitration as an alternative to a court trial.