Litigation

Major Report Featuring Civil Justice System Solutions Released

By Institute for the Advancement of the American Lega

The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) at the University of Denver - a Justice At Stake partner - recently released a major report featuring proposed Principles to improve the U.S. civil justice system.  

You also can learn more about this report in an Associated Press article posted on the New York Times web site, as well as in a story by the National Law Journal.

Newly Released Solutions Address Problems
of America?s Ailing Civil Justice System

On March 11, 2009, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) at the University of Denver and the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) Task Force on Discovery released proposed Principles designed to streamline a U.S. civil justice system that has become mired in cost and delay. The 29 Principles addressed many of the system?s problem areas with recommendations that included: emphasis on proportional discovery, replacement of notice pleading with fact pleading, significant reduction in expert witnesses and limits on depositions, as well as a call for case management by a single judicial officer rather than rotation by multiple judges. (more…)

Full post as published by The Gavel on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).