Managing Complex Litigation 2014

This looseleaf volume contains the text of the official manual prepared by the Federal Judicial Center to help cope with the problems of complex and multidistrict litigation. The work presents all the necessary procedures for use in pretrial and trial of complex civil and criminal actions.

This looseleaf volume contains the text of the official manual prepared by the Federal Judicial Center to help cope with the problems of complex and multidistrict litigation. The work presents all the necessary procedures for use in pretrial and trial of complex civil and criminal actions.

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

This work describes approaches that trial judges have found to be useful in managing complex cases. This edition updates the treatment of electronic discovery and other aspects of pretrial management and describes major changes affecting case management in the substantive and procedural law in mass torts, class actions, intellectual property, employment discrimination, and other types of litigation. A new chapter deals with managing scientific evidence.