Special Masters: A Consensus Proposal For a New Approach to Civil Litigation

摘要

There is an ADR tool courts should consider that could significantly help them handle and resolve cases faster and less expensively. That is the consensus reached over the past year by a working group of representatives from the American Bar Associations Judicial Division (including the National Conference of Federal Trial Judges, the National Conference of State Trial Judges and Lawyers Conference), the Standing Committee on the American Judicial System and Business Law, Litigation, Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property Law, Antitrust and Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Sections that has collectively devoted easily more than 1,000 hours to creating guidelines for changing the way we look at special masters in civil litigation.