Ms. de la Pena takes us through the legal maze that led, a decade after the charges were first leveled, to the granting of a new trial.

The debate over the Osprey graphically illustrates the legal, financial, strategic and political maze involved in cutting the $300 billion military budget.

The next step is to abolish the McCain-Feingold Act which erected a legal maze for political campaigns.

There were successors to appoint, legal and financial mazes to untangle, committee and state business to wind up.

The conviction and removal of Evan Mecham from office in the first gubernatorial impeachment trial in almost 60 years has put state officials in a legal maze.

Spared those hours, days, weeks, months, years it takes a case to wander its tedious way through the American legal maze?

He said he helped clients "navigate through the always complicated legal, governmental and economic maze on Long Island."

It was a difficult legal maze that the executors had to travel, and more time was still needed to provide the proper legal administration of any transactions related to the house or property.

The company helps its clients, which include the failing companies' financial backers, work through the legal and emotional maze of bankruptcy and near-bankruptcy.

These contracts may be, or become, illegitimate (if they are not approved by the shareholders), but it may take a very long time to resolve the legal maze.