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Jan 1, 1994
This study profiles private alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in Los Angeles. The study focused on all civil money suits in Los Angeles county in 1992 and 1993.
Jan 1, 1993
This monograph examines the use of private alternative dispute resolution (private ADR) by firms in the banking industry in response to a perceived liability crisis in the 1980's.
Jan 1, 1990
Court-annexed arbitration, which requires the referral of civil cases to nonbinding arbitration before a lawyer-arbitrator, has become an increasingly common feature of civil procedure, ...
Jan 1, 1989
Reports the findings of a 1987 survey of court officials undertaken to determine the status of California's judicial arbitration program. It also describes how local courts have implemented the program, analyzes selected program outcomes,...
This report investigates the attitudes and perceptions of individual plaintiffs and defendants in personal-injury tort cases in three state courts.
Jan 1, 1988
In 1985, New Jersey implemented a statewide program of mandatory court-administered arbitration of automobile injury lawsuits.
Jan 1, 1986
This Note, a reprint of an article that originally appeared in the February-March 1986 issue of Judicature, summarizes the results of research conducted by the Institute for Civil Justice in the area of court-administered arbitration.
Jan 1, 1985
Reports the findings of a national survey to determine the current status of court-annexed arbitration among state and federal trial courts, and is an update of a similar survey conducted by The Institute for Civil Justice in 1980, and published as R2732
Jan 1, 1984
A shortened version of a study published as R-2733-ICJ, examines the experimental court-ordered arbitration program established in California in 1979, in an effort to determine whether court-ordered arbitration reduces court congestion ...
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This paper, originally published in the New Jersey Bell Journal, Summer 1984, describes some factors contributing to the congestion, delay, and expense that currently trouble the country's civil courts. It describes court-administered arbitration, an...
Court-annexed arbitration is a court-run dispute resolution process to which cases that meet some specified criteria are involuntarily assigned.
Research effort has been directed toward investigating the use of court-annexed arbitration in the state trial courts, and evaluating the effectiveness of this type of arbitration for managing the civil caseload and alleviating the burdens that the l...
