Originally from Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation

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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 Association’s 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.

Each of these Divisions, Sections and forums have co-sponsored a resolution in which they have asked the ABA House of Delegates to approve these guidelines at its midyear meeting next month.