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International comparisons show contrasting trends of acceleration in criminal courts. The “particularly accelerated procedure” in Germany is characterized by the low time pressure on court workers. The observation of the backstage of a Berlin court in an ethnographic survey reveals the different forms and modalities of acceleration. We study how they relate to one another in order to determine under which conditions the acceleration of a procedure does not translate to any intensification of work. We draw attention to workers’ subjective relationships to time and how workers mobilize the temporalities of the law in order not to be subjected to urgency. This enables judges to maintain control over the cases submitted to them and to avoid a managerial logic of flow control.