Current Projects
Civil Justice Reform
IAALS Civil Litigation Reform Project
IAALS, in collaboration with the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) Task Force on Discovery, is undertaking a comprehensive research project to identify and quantify the problems associated with delay and disproportionate cost in the civil justice system of the United States. Among the primary areas of focus will be the interrelationship between the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) and burgeoning cost and delay in the system. The goal of our organizations is to contribute to a transformative process that will ultimately lead to a civil justice system that is more widely perceived as affordable, transparent, consistent and predicated on a search for the truth rather than on leveraging settlement or time to disposition.
The primary outcome of this project will be a fact-based White Paper to be offered to the United States Judicial Conference for its review and consideration.