Judicial Conference of the United States, Committee on Court Administration and Case Management
January 1, 2010
This manual provides trial judges a handbook on managing civil cases. It sets out a wide array of case-management techniques, beginning with early case screening and concluding with steps for streamlining trials and final disposition.
This program provides on-site consultations to district and bankruptcy courts that want to establish a court-based alternative dispute resolution program or enhance or examine an existing program.
This article describes some of the advantages, disadvantages, potential benefits, and limitations of conducting empirical research to inform the civil rulemaking process.
Donna J. Stienstra, Randall E. Ravitz, Robert J. Niemic
January 1, 2001
This publication offers guidance to federal trial and bankruptcy courts on when and how to refer appropriate cases to ADR and how to manage cases referred to ADR.