How Long Do Court Cases Last. Gives profiles for regional courts of appeals and district courts plus national totals and rankings. However about 35 of cases took more than one year to resolve and the longest cases took ten years or more before a final resolution was reached.
Again it is completely different in urban counties. The length of the trial depends on the number of witnesses each side will question. A car accident trial usually only takes a day or two to complete.
It is estimated that it will take the court reporter at least 60 days to transcribe the six full days of testimony and arguments.
Generally speaking it can take anywhere between a few months and two years for the appeals court to render a decision. In the Law Division simple collection cases forfeiture and landlord tenant proceedings have a minimum 150 day discovery period. Discovery almost always needs at least a few months to complete but can sometimes take up to a year or more. Judges mediators and custody adjudicators hear a number of cases on a daily basis.
