Alternative Dispute Resolution

• Alternative Dispute Resolution with the Florida State Courts

Antitrust

• The Antitrust Modernization Commission (PDF)
• ABA Antitrust Publications Catalog (PDF)

Business and Other Specialized Courts

• Materials From California
  • California Complex Case Coordination (PDF)
  • California Complex Civil Litigation Fact Sheet (PDF)
  • Santa Clara Complex Department Guidelines (PDF)
  • Complex Litigation Center (PDF)
  • NCSC Final Report on California Efforts (PDF)
  • Key Findings from the California Pilot Program (PDF)
• Materials from Florida's Ninth Judicial Circuit Business Court
  • Administrative Order 2003-17-1 (PDF)
  • Administrative Order 2003-17-2 (PDF)
  • Administrative Order 2003-17-3 (PDF)
  • Brochure (PDF)
  • Cover Sheet (PDF)
  • Procedures (PDF)
• Materials from Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit
  • Administrative Order 06-40 (PDF)
• Materials from Florida's Thirteenth Judicial Circuit
  • Sample AO Complex Business Litigation Division (MS Word)
• Article - Applying Problem-Solving Principles in Mainstream Courts (PDF) by Donald J. Farole, Jr., et al.
• Michigan Business Court FAQs (PDF)
• Pennsylvania Complex Litigation Center (PDF)

Class Action

• Florida Rules of Civil Procedure and Florida Statutes Regarding Class Actions (MS Word)

Court Innovations

• Differentiated Case Management (PDF)
• Mass Tort Curriculum for State and Federal Judges: An Online Resource (PDF)
• Developing a Proposal for Differentiated Case Management for the
  Family Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit (PDF)
• Use of Court Automation to Aid Fiduciary Management in Large Urban Probate Courts (PDF)
• Court Technology Bulletin (PDF)
• The Sedona Guidelines: Best Practice Guidelines & Commentary for Managing Information & Records in the Electronic Age (PDF)
• Florida's Eighth Circuit Case Management Strategies (PDF)
• Florida Rules of Civil Procedure Regarding Complex Litigation (Ms Word)
• Florida Rules Of Judicial Administration Excerpts (MS Word)
• Florida Middle District Federal Courts, Local Rule 3.05 (PDF)
• Florida Southern District Federal Courts, Local Rule 16.1 (PDF)
• Differentiated Case Management (PDF)
• Minnesota Best Practices on Differentiated Case Management (PDF)
• Court Business Process Enhancement Manual (PDF)

Criminal

• Prevent White-Collar Crime - Save Future Prosecution

Discovery - Other than Electronic

• Inadvertent Disclosure & Lack of Rules (PDF)
• USDOJ Policy Regarding Waiver of the Attorney-Client Privilege (PDF)
• ABA Task Force on Attorney-Client Privilege (PDF)

E-Discovery and E-Filing

• SEC Interp: Electronic Storage of Broker-Dealer Records
• FDA Guidance: Electronic Records; Electronic Signatures
• Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations
• California Public Access to Electronic Trial Court Records (PDF)
• Chapter 934 Florida Statutes (MS Word)
• FS Documentary Evidence (MS Word)
• Is Digital Different (MS Word)
• Civil Action Summer 04-E-Discovery (PDF)
• Guidelines For State Trial Courts Regarding Discovery Of Electronically-Stored Information (PDF)
• Draft Amendments to ABA Discovery Standards (PDF)
• EDiscovery: Preserving, Requesting & Producing Electronic Information (PDF) by Lisa M. Arent et al.
• Computer-Based Discovery in Federal Civil Litigation (PDF)
• A Qualitative Study of Issues Raised By the Discovery of Computer-Based Information in Civil Litigation (PDF)
• Federal Rulemakers Grapple with E-Discovery (PDF)
• California Electronic Filing Technical Standards Project Technical Standards (PDF)
• Florida Middle District Federal Courts, Administrative Procedures for Electronic Filing in Civil and Criminal Cases (MS Word)
• Biegeleisen v Ross (MS Word)
• Chapter 668 (MS Word)
• FS re Facsimile signatures (MS Word)
• FS re Notary FaxSig (MS Word)
• Haire v DACS (MS Word)
• State v Hickman (MS Word)
• US v Juarez (MS Word)

Environmental

• Feeling the Heat:The Growing Debate Over Climate Change Takes On Legal Overtones by Kristin Choo

Federal - Federal Rules Changes

• Advisory Comm FR EV05-2006 (PDF)
• Federal Rulemakers Grapple with E-Discovery (PDF)
• Rules 16 - 26 & 37 (MS Word)
• Rules 26 & 37 (MS Word)
• Appendix_F (PDF)
• Rules Publication August 2005 (PDF)
• ST09-2005 (PDF)

Federal - Manual on Complex Litigation

• Federal Manual for Complex Litigation, 4th Ed. (PDF) (see 819 pp)

Mass Torts

• Backing Away from the Abyss - RE Asbestos Litigation
• ICM_BhBookDistLrnBlkBd (PFD)
• KIS_MaTortManMassTortCa (PDF)
• MassTApC (PDF)

Miscellaneous Articles and Reports

• Whose File Is It Anyway?

Other States

• Res_BusCts_ComplexCivilLitigationPub (PDF)
• Res_BusCtsCivilActionWinter04 (PDF)
• SedonaBPMDigiRec200409 (PDF)
• California
  • CAcomplxLitig (PDF)
  • California Complex Case Coordination (PDF)
  • California Complex Civil Litigation Fact Sheet (PDF)
  • innovationsCal Cts (PDF)
  • NCSC Final Report Calif Complex Civil Litigation Pilot Program (PDF)
  • Santa Clara Complex Department Guidelines (PDF)
  • Complex Case Definition - Excerpt from Deskbook (PDF)
  • Complex Case Definition - Excerpt from Court Rules (PDF)
• Massachusetts
  • KIS_MaTortManMassTortCa (PDF)
• Pennsylvania
  • PA Complex Litigation Center (PDF)

Technology for Complex Cases

• KM 101: Assistive Technology for Knowledge Management Initiatives
• Links page- Technology and the Future of the Profession
• Using Document Management Software to Manage and Leverage Work Product
• Cal strat plan rev ct tech (PDF)
• Use of Courttroom Technology (PDF)
• CARTModelGuidelines (MS Word)
• Computer Aided Transcription (MS Word)
• CTtech06 (PDF)
• CTtech10 (PDF)
• DATRept (PDF)
• Fla Electronic Court Rep rule (MS Word)
• translate (MS Word)
• Cal e-filing standards (PDF)
• Cal Public Access to Electronic Trial Court Records (PDF)
• electronicdataexchanges (MS Word)