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Early Stages of Litigation Attorney Survey: Report to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules

Emery G. Lee
March 1, 2012

This report summarizes the findings of a study of the operation of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26(f) and 16(b) in a nationwide sample of recently terminated civil cases.