Vivid Imagery: The Flow of an Oklahoma Lawsuit

To most people the Oklahoma Court system is a mysterious and complicated place with only “insiders” such as attorneys and judges to understand it.  

The diagram below shows the flow of an Oklahoma lawsuit until it completion in a trial conducted by either a Judge or a Jury.  

This diagram obviously won’t remove all the mystery of the system but hopefully it provides you with a better big picture understanding of the Oklahoma Court system.

 

Posted by Shawn Roberts

On this blog, I write about and try to answer practical Oklahoma legal questions. My focus and most experience is in estate planning and business issues including Oklahoma non-compete law. I make a living as an attorney in the law firm I founded, Shawn J. Roberts, P.C. in Oklahoma City. I live in Edmond with my wife Amy and my two children, Sam (19) and David (11). We live precisely in the path of where the "wind comes sweeping down the plains."