Legal Question in Consumer Law in Illinois

Laywers are generally not the ones to set the required filing date parameters. It's all a matter of the statutes and court rules, and depends on the kind of case. Unless your at the end of that time or in default for failure to appear and/or plead or something else.....

If you were served the summons will tell you -- some require you to respond within as soon as 14 days, others 30 days. Normally if an attorney was handling this for you (RECOMMENDED) and got the case with little time left to respond or after the time to respond, your attorney would call the other attorney and try to come to an agreement to allow time to file (sometimes it's a matter of an agreed order, sometimes it's just that the other side won't move for a default....), but there is no hard and fast rule -- at the very least your attorney may have to file an appearance (again, this is case dependent and I am NOT advising you to do so here knowing nothing of the kind of case....) to gain the other attorney's time extension agreement.....