Pocket Guides

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Enhancing Cooperation Through State–Federal Judicial Councils

Jason A. Cantone

July 10, 2017

This guide is intended to help state and federal judges organize and maintain an active state–federal judicial council. The guide identifies different topics that can be considered and activities that can be coordinated through a council.

Securities Litigation

Jayme J. Herschkopf

June 28, 2017

This guide is designed to offer judges an introduction to the law and practice of securities litigation. It provides an overview of the types of legal and practical issues judges may confront in litigation arising under the securities laws, and, where possible, offers suggestions.

The Elements of Case Management, Third Edition

William W Schwarzer, Alan Hirsch, Jeremy D. Fogel

June 19, 2017

This manual describes techniques that judges have found effective in managing their cases at various stages of the litigation process.

Technology-Assisted Review for Discovery Requests: A Pocket Guide for Judges

Timothy T. Lau, Emery G. Lee

March 28, 2017

This pocket guide summarizes the essential concepts behind a variety of labor-saving techniques, known generally as technology-assisted review (TAR), that help identify documents for production.

Mindfulness and Judging

Jeremy D. Fogel

January 26, 2016

This is a primer on mindfulness and its uses in judging.

Criminal e-Discovery: A Pocket Guide for Judges

Sean Broderick, Donna Lee Elm, Andrew D. Goldsmith, John Haried, Kiran Raj

November 25, 2015

This pocket guide was developed to help judges manage complex e-discovery in federal criminal cases. The advantages of electronically stored information (ESI, or e-discovery) include speed, efficiency, and quality of information.

Supervising Cybercrime Offenders Through Computer-Related Conditions: A Guide for Judges

Stephen E. Vance

October 27, 2015

This guide provides an overview of special conditions of supervised release and probation restricting computer and Internet use in an effort to protect the public from cybercrime, including child pornography offenses.

Managing the Chapter 15 Cross-Border Insolvency Case: A Pocket Guide for Judges, Second Edition

Louise Decarl Adler

June 5, 2014

Increasing globalization and cross-border interdependence of business enterprises increase the likelihood that bankruptcy judges will see the occasional chapter 15 case filed in their jurisdiction. In this concise guide, Judge Louise DeCarl Adler (Bankr. S.D.

Ten Steps to Better Case Management: A Guide for Multidistrict Litigation Transferee Court Clerks, Second Edition

Federal Judicial Center, Jud Watkins, Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

January 1, 2014

This guide is intended to help transferee clerks of court successfully manage multidistrict litigation (MDL). It contains recommendations from the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and suggestions for implementing CM/ECF to improve MDL case management.

Ten Steps to Better Case Management: A Guide for Multidistrict Litigation Transferee Judges, Second Edition

Federal Judicial Center, Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation