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Ten Steps to Better Case Management: A Guide for Multidistrict Litigation Transferee Court Clerks [Superseded]

Federal Judicial Center, Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
January 1, 2008

This guide is intended to help transferee clerks of court successfully manage multidistrict litigation (MDL). It contains recommendations from the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and suggestions for implementing the Case Management/Electronic Case Filing System (CM/ECF) to improve MDL case management.

Superseded by Ten Steps to Better Case Management: A Guide for Multidistrict Litigation Transferee Court Clerks, Second Edition (2014).