Subject: Civil Procedure
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Two documents Icon_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)
Two documents Icon_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).
Two documents Icon_Chambers and Case Management (superseded in January 2009)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(superseded in January 2009)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).
Two documents Icon_Case Management and Civil Pretrial Procedure
Rya W. Zobel,
1998 (Video)
1717-V/98 (one DVD) (33 minutes) (print material)
Judge Rya W. Zobel, then-director of the Federal Judicial Center, discusses the importance of sound case-management techniques and conservation of the judge's time throughout litigation. She offers suggestions for managing the Rule 16 conference, discovery disputes, motions, the final pretrial ...(Read more)
Two documents Icon_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)
Two documents Icon_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[superseded]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)
Two documents Icon_The 1993 Amendments To The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure: New Challenges In Court Administration
Patrick E. Higginbotham, Sam C. Pointer Jr., William W. Schwarzer,
1993 (Video)
2491-V/93 (one DVD) (52 minutes) (written material)
Major issues of court administration resulting from the 1993 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Two documents Icon_Case Management and Civil Pretrial Procedure
William W Schwarzer,
1991 (Video)
1717-V/91 (one videotape) (28 minutes) (print material)
Judge William W Schwarzer, director of the Federal Judicial Center, discusses the importance of sound case management techniques and conservation of the judge's time throughout litigation. He offers suggestions for managing Rule 16 conference, discovery disputes, motions and other aspects of civil ...(Read more)