If you have never been involved in a lawsuit you have no idea how the process works. I’m not saying it doesn’t have serious problems. In fact, my opinion is that it’s a broken system that is fundamentally deranged. But! It _does_have reliably enforceable rules and procedures that are part of that busted system that a competent lawyer can leverage for your benefit.

And forget criminal law for a moment, the process of a normal, marginally complex civil lawsuit is so much mandatory tedium it would completely blow your mind. But if your lawyer understands the difference between begging for justice and leveraging bureaucracy there are powerful mechanisms, Stygian levers and gears, actuating the soulless golem of law at your disposal.