 |  _ | Benchbook for U.S. District Court Judges, Sixth Edition
Federal Judicial Center,
2013 (Publication) 300 pages
The Benchbook is an ongoing compilation of information that federal judges have found useful for immediate bench or chambers reference in civil and criminal proceedings. It contains sections on such topics as assignment of counsel, taking guilty pleas, standard voir dire questions, ...(Read more) |
| _ | Keeping Government Secrets: A Pocket Guide on the State-Secrets Privilege, the Classified Information Procedures Act, and Classified Information Security Officers, Second Edition
Robert Timothy Reagan,
2013 (Publication) 49 pages
Most courts come into contact with classified information infrequently, if at all, but when they do, they are faced with the dilemma of how to protect government secrets in the context of an otherwise public proceeding. This pocket guide is designed to familiarize judges and court staff with ...(Read more) |
| _ | National Security Case Management: An Annotated Guide
Robert Timothy Reagan,
2011 (Publication) 65 pages
Cases related to terrorism often pose unusual and challenging case-management issues for the courts. Evidence or arguments may be classified; witnesses or the jury may require special security measures; attorneys’ contacts with their clients may be diminished; other challenges may present ...(Read more) |
| _ | National Security Case Studies: Special Case-Management Challenges
Robert Timothy Reagan,
November 2011 (Publication) 387 pages
Cases related to terrorism often pose unusual and challenging case-management issues for the courts. Evidence or arguments may be classified; witnesses or the jury may require special security measures; attorneys’ contacts with their clients may be diminished; other challenges may present ...(Read more) |
| _ | Manual on Recurring Problems in Criminal Trials, Sixth Edition
Tucker Carrington, Kris Markarian eds.,
2010 (Publication) 101 pages
The Manual on Recurring Problems in Criminal Trials (6th ed.) outlines the law governing many of the specific issues and procedural matters that arise frequently in criminal trials. The Sixth Edition added new material and revised the organization and format to enhance usability. Among the topics ...(Read more) |
| _ | National Security Case Studies: Special Case-Management Challenges
Robert Timothy Reagan,
2010 (Publication) 267 pages
Cases related to terrorism often pose unusual and challenging case-management issues for the courts. Evidence or arguments may be classified; witnesses or the jury may require special security measures; attorneys’ contacts with their clients may be diminished; other challenges may present ...(Read more) |
| _ | Sealing Court Records and Proceedings: A Pocket Guide
Robert Timothy Reagan,
2010 (Publication) 26 pages
Court case records and proceedings are presumptively public, but occasionally there are compelling reasons for keeping all or parts of them confidential, sometimes permanently but often only temporarily. This pocket guide summarizes the case law on sealing records and proceedings and presents a ...(Read more) |
| _ | Chambers and Case Management
Barbara J. Rothstein, Federal Judicial Center,
2009 (Publication) 21 pages
This paper provides law clerks with a broad overview of some of their responsibilities related to maintaining a well-run chambers. Such responsibilities include helping to ensure chambers security; answering telephones and mail; maintaining the judge’s motion, hearing, and trial calendars; and ...(Read more) |
| _ | Benchbook for U.S. District Court Judges, Fifth Edition
2007 (Publication) 279 pages
[superseded]
An ongoing compilation of information that federal judges have found useful for immediate bench or chambers reference in civil and criminal proceedings. The Benchbook contains sections on such topics as assignment of counsel, taking guilty pleas, standard voir dire questions, ...(Read more) |
| _ | Keeping Government Secrets: A Pocket Guide for Judges on the State-Secrets Privilege, the Classified Information Procedures Act, and Court Security Officers
Robert Timothy Reagan,
2007 (Publication) 44 pages
Superseded in March 2013
Most federal judges come into contact with classified information infrequently, if at all, but when they do, they are faced with the dilemma of how to protect government secrets in the context of an otherwise public proceeding. This pocket guide is designed to familiarize ...(Read more) |
| _ | Law Clerk Handbook: A Handbook for Law Clerks to Federal Judges, Second Edition
2007 (Publication) 148 pages
This handbook provides an overview of chambers operations and the work of the federal courts. It replaces the Chambers Handbook for Judges' Law Clerks and Secretaries (1994). |
| _ | Chambers and Case Management (superseded in January 2009)
Barbara J. Rothstein,
2005 (Publication) 21 pages
(superseded in January 2009)
This paper has since been updated and incorporated as Chapter 4 of the Law Clerk Handbook, Second Edition (2007). |
| _ | Resource Guide for Managing Capital Cases, Volume I: Federal Death Penalty Trials (updated April 2004)
Molly Treadway Johnson, Laural L. Hooper,
2004 (Publication) 59 pages
This is the first part of a two-volume resource guide for managing capital cases in the federal courts. The second volume covers habeas corpus review of capital convictions. This volume describes the statutes, case law, and policies applicable to federal capital case-management issues such as ...(Read more) |
| _ | Court to Court
October 31, 2001 (Video)
4262-V/01 (one DVD) ( 31 minutes) (available closed-captioned)
In this edition, staff of the clerk's office (W.D. Wash.) explain how they have dealt with some of the bumps in the road on the way to successful team-based management. We also hear from several district courts along the U.S.-Mexico border, which handle more than one-fourth of all criminal cases in ...(Read more) |
| _ | CJA Supervising Attorney: A Possible Tool in Criminal Justice Act Administration
Tim Reagan, John Shapard, Christina Studebaker, Naomi Medvin, Jennifer Marsh, Melissa Deckman, Stefanie Lindquist,
April 2001 (Publication) 131 pages
Report to the Judicial Conference Committees on Defender Services, Judicial Resources, and Court Administration and Case Management, April 2001. |
| _ | Manual on Recurring Problems in Criminal Trials, Fifth Edition
Donald S. Voorhees, Genevra Kay Loveland,
2001 (Publication) 178 pages
Superseded by a Sixth Edition in 2010
The fifth edition of the late Judge Voorhees's guide to the law governing many of the procedural matters that arise in criminal trials. The material, which was originally prepared for Center seminars for newly appointed district judges, has been ...(Read more) |
| _ | Resource Guide for Managing Capital Cases, Volume I: Federal Death Penalty Trials (2001)
Molly Treadway Johnson, Laural L. Hooper,
2001 (Publication) 58 pages
[superseded]
This monograph describes the statutes, case law, and policies applicable to federal capital case-management issues such as appointment of counsel, case budgeting, and jury selection, and summarizes procedures judges have used in capital cases at each stage of the proceedings. |
| _ | The Use of Visiting Judges in the Federal District Courts: A Guide for Judges and Court Personnel
Jennifer Evans Marsh,
2001 (Publication) 67 pages
[superseded]
In 1999, at the direction of the Judicial Officers Resources Working Group appointed by the Chief Justice, the Center conducted studies of the use of visiting judges in the district courts. Interviews showed that many borrowing courts have created successful visiting judge procedures ...(Read more) |
| _ | The Use of Visiting Judges in the Federal District Courts: A Guide for Judges and Court Personnel (updated 2003)
Jennifer Evans Marsh,
2001 (Publication) 67 pages
[superseded]
In 1999, at the direction of the Judicial Officers Resources Working Group appointed by the Chief Justice, the Center conducted studies of the use of visiting judges in the district courts. Interviews showed that many borrowing courts have created successful visiting judge procedures ...(Read more) |
| _ | The Use of Visiting Judges in the Federal District Courts: A Guide for Judges and Court Personnel (updated 2006)
Nicholle Stahl-Reisdorff,
2001 (Publication) 67 pages
In 1999, at the direction of the Judicial Officers Resources Working Group appointed by the Chief Justice, the Center conducted studies of the use of visiting judges in the district courts. Interviews showed that many borrowing courts have created successful visiting judge procedures that minimize ...(Read more) |
| _ | Benchbook for U.S. District Court Judges, Fourth Edition (revised March 2000)
2000 (Publication) 244 pages
[superseded]
An ongoing compilation of information that federal district judges have found useful for immediate bench or chambers reference. The Benchbook contains sections on such topics as assignment of counsel, taking guilty pleas, model sentencing forms, standard voir dire questions, and oaths. ...(Read more) |
| _ | The Role of the U.S. Magistrate Judge
D. Brock Hornby,
1998 (Video)
2461-V/98 (one DVD) (21 minutes) (print material)
In this video, Judge D. Brock Hornby (D. Me.) provides an overview of the role U.S. magistrate judges play in district courts. He discusses the primary sources of magistrate judge authority in civil and criminal cases; the common functions of magistrate judges in most district courts, as well as ...(Read more) |
| _ | The Role of the U.S. Magistrate Judge
D. Brock Hornby,
1996 (Video)
2461-V/96 (one videotape) (21 minutes) (print material)
In this video, Judge D. Brock Hornby (D. Me.) provides an overview of the role U.S. magistrate judges play in district courts. He discusses the primary sources of magistrate judge authority in civil and criminal cases; the common functions of magistrate judges in most district courts, as well as ...(Read more) |
| _ | Benchbook for U.S. District Court Judges, Fourth Edition
1996 (Publication) 244 pages
[superseded]
An ongoing compilation of information that federal district judges have found useful for immediate bench or chambers reference. The Benchbook contains sections on such topics as assignment of counsel, taking guilty pleas, model sentencing forms, standard voir dire questions, and oaths. ...(Read more) |
| _ | Chambers Handbook for Judges' Law Clerks and Secretaries
1994 (Publication) 184 pages
The Chambers Handbook is out-of-print and no longer available for distribution.
A handbook that provides an overview of chambers operations and the work of the federal courts. It deals with the following tasks and areas of concern for judges' law clerks and secretaries: conduct, ethics, ...(Read more) |
| _ | Chambers Handbook for Judges' Law Clerks and Secretaries
1994 (Publication) 177 pages
[superseded]
A handbook that provides an overview of chambers operations and the work of the federal courts. It deals with the following tasks and areas of concern for judges' law clerks and secretaries: conduct, ethics, and protocol; basic analysis of litigation; court governance and ...(Read more) |
| _ | Criminal Litigation Before Magistrate Judges, Part II: Pretrial Services, Appointment of Counsel, Initial Appearance, Preliminary Examination, Pretrial Release, and Detention and Removal Hearings
Tommy E. Miller, James G. Carr, Virginia M. Morgan,
1993 (Video)
2108-V/93 (two videotapes) (1 hour) (print material)
Discusses pretrial matters that arise after a defendant is arrested. (Formerly used during the orientation of magistrate judges.)
See 2107-V/06 and 2108-V/06 |
| _ | Criminal Litigation Before Magistrate Judges, Part IV: Misdemeanors, Guilty Pleas, Sentencing, Revocation of Probation and Supervised Release
Tommy E. Miller,
1993 (Video)
2110-V/93 (one DVD) (34 minutes) (print material)
Discusses five proceedings related to Class A misdemeanors. (Formerly used during the orientation of magistrate judges.)
See 2107-V/06 and 2108-V/06 |
| _ | Criminal Litigation Before Magistrate Judges, Part I: Complaints, Warrants for Arrest, and Search Warrants
Aaron E. Goodstein,
1993 (Video)
2107-V/93 (one videotape) (45 minutes) (print material)
Discusses three functions magistrate judges can expect to perform during the initial stages of a criminal case. (Formerly used during the orientation of magistrate judges.)
See 2107-V/06 and 2108-V/06 |
| _ | Role of the U.S. Magistrate Judge
D. Brock Hornby, Carol E. Jackson, Philip M. Pro, Claudia Wilken,
1993 (Video)
2461-V/93 (one videotape) (1 hour)
Panel discussion on the role of the magistrate judge in the district court, prepared for use in the orientation of district judges. Topics include selecting magistrate judges, using magistrate judges in civil and criminal cases, and reviewing magistrate judges' decisions. |
| _ | Criminal Pre-Trial Proceedings
Terry J. Hatter Jr., Michael M. Mihm,
1992 (Video)
1720-V/92 (two videotapes) (1 hour 8 minutes) (print material)
Discusses the importance of case management during the pretrial phase of a criminal case. For use in the orientation of district judges. |
| _ | Bench Book for United States District Court Judges, Third Edition
1986 (Publication)
[superseded]
An ongoing compilation of information that federal district judges have found useful for immediate bench or chambers reference. The Bench Book contains sections on such topics as assignment of counsel, taking guilty pleas, model sentencing forms, standard voir dire questions, and ...(Read more) |
| _ | Visiting Judges in Federal District Courts
Donna Stienstra,
1985 (Publication) 40 pages
A description of the methods used by eighteen district courts to ensure that a visiting judge's stay is satisfying and productive for both the visitor and the court. Issues covered include selection and preparation of the visiting judge's caseload, orientation to the court, and the visitor's impact ...(Read more) |
| _ | Chambers to Chambers (1983-1996)
1983 (Publication)
(Publication ceased in 1996)
A newsletter with brief descriptions of case-or office-management techniques that judges have found helpful. Items for publication were reviewed by federal judges knowledgeable in the particular subject area. Paper copies of Chambers to Chambers issues are ...(Read more) |
| _ | Bench Comment (1981-1998)
1981 (Publication)
(Publication ceased in 1998)
A newsletter with brief summaries of trends in federal appellate treatment of practical procedural problems that trial judges may face. Each Bench Comment was reviewed by federal judges with special expertise in the specific area. Paper copies of Bench ...[(Read more) |
| _ | Bench Book for United States District Court Judges
1979 (Publication)
[superseded]
A Second Edition of the ongoing compilation of information that federal district judges have found useful for immediate bench or chambers reference. The Bench Book contains sections on such topics as assignment of counsel, taking guilty pleas, model sentencing forms, standard voir dire ...(Read more) |
| _ | Case Management and Court Management in United States District Courts
Steven Flanders,
1977 (Publication) 153 pages
An oft-cited analysis of the differences between court management procedures resulting in fast versus slow processing and those resulting in high versus low rates of disposition. This volume reports the overall results of the District Court Studies Project, a long-range effort by the Federal ...(Read more) |
| _ | Bench Book for United States District Court Judges
1969 (Publication)
[superseded]
An ongoing compilation of information that federal district judges have found useful for immediate bench or chambers reference. The Bench Book contains sections on such topics as assignment of counsel, taking guilty pleas, model sentencing forms, standard voir dire questions, and ...(Read more) |