This issue of FJC Directions provides highlights of the papers presented at the National Conference on State-Federal Judicial Relationships, held in April 1992, and of the discussions the papers prompted. Included are summaries of participants' ideas, of the keynote address, and of panel commentary on the address; a discussion of planning using the National Judicial Council of State and Federal Courts; results of a survey on state-federal administrative cooperation nationwide. In this issue of FJC Directions:

• A Synthesis of Participants' Ideas: The Small-Group Discussions, by Paul D. Carrington, Ellen A. Peters, and J. Clifford Wallace, page 3
• Judicial Federalism in Action: Coordination of Parallel Litigation in the State and Federal Courts, by William W Schwarzer, Nancy Weiss, and Alan Hirsch, page 9
• New Contours in the Debate over Diversity Jurisdiction, by Nancy Weiss, page 17
• Institutional Arrangement of State-Federal Judicial Planning and Analysis, by Edward B. McConnell, page 20
• Administrative Cooperation Between State and Federal Courts, by Victor E. Flango and Maria Gibson, page 23