One question asked by many people with Tennessee personal injury or Tennessee wrongful death cases is how long it will take to get their case to trial. There are lots of variables that impact the answer to that question, including whether the case is in Tennessee federal court or Tennessee state court and then in which federal or state court the case is pending. The complexity of the case also makes a material difference, as does the number of parties who bring suit or who are sued in the case.
The federal government recently released statistics about how long it gets a civil case to get to trial in federal court in Tennessee and the rest of the nation.
First of all, it is important to note that most cases do not ever get to trial – they are settled or otherwise resolved before trial. Here are the statistics for the average (median) time to get an average civil case resolved in Tennessee federal court: