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Alternative Dispute Resolution in a Bankruptcy Court: The Mediation Program in the Southern District of California

Gordon Bermant, Steven Hartwell
January 1, 1988

A study of the Southern District of California's bankruptcy mediation program. The authors summarize interviews with twenty-six program participants and analyze the first eighty adversary proceedings to come to mediation.

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Assessment of Videotaped Bankruptcy Discharge Hearings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

John E. Shapard
January 1, 1985

A brief description of a test of the use of videotape for part of the bankruptcy discharge hearing for debtors required by 11 U.S.C. Section 524(d). The test demonstrated that use of the videotape conserves judge time and can enhance the value of the hearing to the debtor.

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The 1981 Bankruptcy Court Time Study

John E. Shapard
January 1, 1982

This study, done at the request of the Bankruptcy Division of the Administrative Office, is an analysis of the caseload burdens of bankruptcy judges, using a refinement of the time study method developed in the 1979 district court time study.

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