Managing Complex Civil Litigation

If you litigate in California, you need this publication from the Judicial Council of California. Use the official publication California judges use to manage complex civil litigation cases such as: - Insurance coverage claims - Claims involving class action - Claims involving intellectual property - Labor and employment claims - Environmental or toxic tort claims involving many parties - Construction defect claims involving many parties or structures - Antitrust or trade regulations claims - Securities claims or investment losses involving many parties Matthew Bender, a member of the LexisNexis Group, is the official publisher of the Deskbook for the Management of Complex Civil Litigation. The Complex Civil Litigation Task Force, established by the Judicial Council, developed the Deskbook, which provides: - Trial management and technology tips to help with every phase of complex litigation - Appendices with sample case management orders - A comprehensive index and table of contents to make searching for a topic easy You'll also find cross-references to other useful Matthew Bender litigation publications, including: - Kiesel, Lichtman, Matthai, Seabolt, Matthew Bender(r) Practice Guide: California Pretrial Civil Procedure Kiesel, Lichtman, Matthai, Seabolt, Grillo, Matthew Bender Practice Guide: California Civil Discovery, - California Forms of Pleading and Practice - California Points and Authorities - California Trial Guide - California Forms of Jury Instruction, Judicial Council of California Civil Jury Instructions (CACI), Cabraser, California Class Actions Practice and Procedure

The information age provides novel tools for case management. While technology plays a crucial role, the way in which courts are structured is still critical in ensuring effective case management. The correlation between court structure and case management is a pivotal topic. The existing debate concentrates predominantly on the micro and case-specific aspects of case management, without further inquiry into the relationship between court structure, court management, and case management. The contributions within this volume fill this gap from a comparative perspective, undertaking a macro/structural and sub-macro perspective of procedure and case management.

Civil litigation is more frequently giving rise to cases that are regarded as complex so that they are expensive for parties to run, time-consuming and use a large amount of tax-payer funded court resources. The government, judiciary and legal practitioners have expressed concern as to how to efficiently manage these cases. This book examines the case management tools available to the modern day judge for dealing with crucial aspects of complex civil litigation. The first chapter explains case management, complex civil litigation and how the former may be used to control the latter. Subsequent chapters focus on case management in relation to pleadings, discovery, expert evidence, alternative dispute resolution, summary judgment and the separate question procedure. The author also explains the role of the overriding/overarching purpose with its command that civil litigation is to be conducted in a manner which achieves justice while minimising cost and delay as this has major significance for complex cases. Latter chapters consider two specific examples of complex litigation and the ways in which they may be dealt with âe" commercial litigation and the specialist lists that have developed to deal with this type of case in New South Wales, Victoria and in the Federal Court, and class action or representative proceedings in the Federal Court. Lastly, the concerns or limitations as to case management are examined.

After the passage of the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 (CJRA), and the judiciaryÕs implementation of the requirements of that Act, the Judicial Conference stated that Ò[t]he federal judiciary is committed to, and believes in, sound case management to reduce unnecessary cost and delay in civil litigation, and thus ensure the Ôjust, speedy, and inexpensiveÕ determination of civil actions called for in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.Ó It has been shown that managed cases will settle earlier and more efficiently, and will provide a greater sense of justice to all participants. Even in the absence of settlement, the result will be a more focused trial, increased jury comprehension, and a more efficient and efficacious use of our scarcest institutional resource, judge time.

If you litigate in California, you need this publication from the Judicial Council of California. Use the official publication California judges use to manage complex civil litigation cases such as: - Insurance coverage claims - Claims involving class action - Claims involving intellectual property - Labor and employment claims - Environmental or toxic tort claims involving many parties - Construction defect claims involving many parties or structures - Antitrust or trade regulations claims - Securities claims or investment losses involving many parties Matthew Bender, a member of the LexisNexis Group, is the official publisher of the Deskbook for the Management of Complex Civil Litigation. The Complex Civil Litigation Task Force, established by the Judicial Council, developed the Deskbook, which provides: - Trial management and technology tips to help with every phase of complex litigation - Appendices with sample case management orders - A comprehensive index and table of contents to make searching for a topic easy You'll also find cross-references to other useful Matthew Bender litigation publications, including: - Kiesel, Lichtman, Matthai, Seabolt, Matthew Bender(r) Practice Guide: California Pretrial Civil Procedure Kiesel, Lichtman, Matthai, Seabolt, Grillo, Matthew Bender Practice Guide: California Civil Discovery, - California Forms of Pleading and Practice - California Points and Authorities - California Trial Guide - California Forms of Jury Instruction, Judicial Council of California Civil Jury Instructions (CACI), Cabraser, California Class Actions Practice and Procedure

"The civil justice reforms, introduced in 1999, aimed to improve access to justice by reducing the inequalities, cost, delay and complexity of civil litigation, and to introduce greater certainty for timescales and costs. This was to be achieved by shifting the responsibility for the mangement of civil litigation in England and Wales from litigants and their legal advisers to the courts. This "case management" was to be achieved by means of pre-action protocols; control of simpler and lower value cases by a prescribed set of rules in the Fast Track; and control of higher value and/or more complex cases in the Multi-Track. This research project is focused on case managment in the Fast and Multi Tracks. It is a qualitative investigation, consisting of a series of interviews and focus groups in 2003 and 2004 with a wide range of judges, court officials and practitioners. It focussed on eight county courts, which offered a varied diet of town and country and different levels of litigation activity. One of the most striking aspects of activity within the litigation system is the enormous drop in cases litigated since the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules." -- from the Executive Summary, p. i.

Drawn from papers presented at TIPS Spring Meeting April 1991 San Antonio, Texas.