A Profile of Settlement
Court Review, Vol. 42, No's. 3-4, Fall/Winter 2006
6 Pages Posted: 16 Jul 2009
Date Written: 2006
Abstract
This article was written for judges and court policy makers and describes research on data from over 3,000 Hawaii circuit court civil cases terminated in 1996 and information from more than 400 surveys from lawyers who represented parties in those cases to discover the pattern of non-trial dispositions, settlements, and trials in Hawaii courts. Information is presented about the docket, the types of cases, the pattern of filings, the number of trials, the types of pretrial dispositions other than settlement, the settlement patterns, the lawyers satisfaction with the settlements, the types of negotiations that took place, the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods, events impacting settlements, the frequency of judicial assistance with settlements through court-scheduled settlement conferences, the disposition time, the amount of pretrial discovery, and the demographics of the lawyers.
Keywords: Court settlements, civil cases, litigation, empirical data, non-trial dispositions, settlements, docket, law suits, litigation, filings, trials, pretrial dispositions, settlement patterns, lawyers, satisfaction, negotiation, law, types of negotiations, alternative dispute resolution, ADR, the frequ
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