Civil Procedure
May 12, 2025
How summary judgment hearing dates are causing preventable trial continuances
A trial date is often a plaintiff's clearest path to justice, but in 2025, those dates are being extended as courts' booked calendars leave no room for summary judgment hearings before scheduled trials.
Gary Partamian
Senior Associate
Kabateck LLP
Sexual abuse cases, mass torts, catastrophic personal injury, and insurance bad faith litigation
Email: gp@kbklawyers.com
Partamian has experience handling sexual abuse cases, mass torts, catastrophic injury, and insurance bad faith litigation.
Sheri R. Lalehzarian
Associate
Kabateck LLP
Phone: (213) 217-5000
Email: SL@KBKLawyers.com
Sheri R. Lalehzarian is an Associate at Kabateck LLP, supporting the firm's trial team in cases involving employment class actions, mass torts, consumer rights, personal injury, and wrongful death claims
What is the most important date for a plaintiff? A trial date.
Trial dates enable plaintiffs to obtain justice years after they have been
injured. Yet in 2025, whether due to the defendant's tactic or simply a
consequence of the system, plaintiffs are having their trial dates continued
for entirely preventable reasons revolving around summary judgment motion
hearing dates.
Newly amended summary judgment procedures under Code of Civil Procedur...
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