 11/12/2009 | | | The Federal Judicial Center Offers Training and Research
Barbara J. Rothstein,
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An interview with Judge Barbara J. Rothstein discussing the Federal Judicial Center. The article is excerpted from the October 2009 issue of The Federal Lawyer. Used with permission of the Federal Bar Association. |
| 10/07/2009 | | | Federal Judicial Center National, Case-Based Civil Rules Survey: Preliminary Report to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules
Emery G. Lee III, Thomas E. Willging,
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This report presents preliminary findings from a survey of attorneys in recenty closed civil cases which the Federal Judicial Center conducted in May and June 2009. Nearly half of the attorneys invited to participate responded. The report covers discovery activities and case management in the ...(Read more) |
| 06/25/2009 | | | A Guide to the Preservation of Federal Judges' Papers, Second Edition
Federal Judicial History Office,
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A publication that discusses the importance of federal judges' papers as a documentary record of judges' careers and the work of the federal courts. The guide describes how students of the federal courts use judges' papers and offers guidelines for judges' selection of a repository to house a ...(Read more) |
| 06/15/2009 | | | Anatomy of a Patent Case (BNA)
Complex Litigation Committee of the American College of Trial Lawyers,
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Anatomy of a Patent Case is a concise, narrative summary of the steps required to bring a patent case to trial and of the key elements of such litigation.The central objective of the manual is to inform judges and lawyers not familiar with patent litigation of commonly used practices in this area ...(Read more) |
| 06/05/2009 | | | Ten Steps to Better Case Management: A Guide for Multidistrict Litigation Transferee Judges
Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, Federal Judicial Center,
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This guide is intended to help judges to whom an MDL case has been transferred. Congress created the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation under 28 U.S.C. § 1407 and gave it the responsibility to transfer “civil actions involving one or more common questions of fact” from multiple districts to ...(Read more) |
| 05/28/2009 | | | Patent Case Management Judicial Guide
Peter S. Menell, Lynn Pasahow, James Pooley, Matthew Powers,
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A comprehensive, user-friendly, and practical judicial guide for managing patent cases. Although similar in many respects to other forms of complex civil litigation, patent cases pose distinctive case management challenges, including complex and dynamic technological facts to a degree rarely ...(Read more) |
| 03/24/2009 | | | Managing Class Action Litigation: A Pocket Guide for Judges, Second Edition
Barbara J. Rothstein, Thomas E. Willging,
(Publication)
This pocket guide is designed to help federal judges manage the increased number of class action cases filed in or removed to federal courts as a result of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA). This second edition includes a new section on determining federal jurisdiction that incorporates ...(Read more) |