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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Apr. 18, 2008

Judicial System Must Evolve, Adapt in Order to Meet Demand

Forum Column - By Rick Seabolt - If the public judicial system is to flourish in the face of stiff ADR competition, the system must evolve and adapt to the needs of the "consumers" of judicial services.

FORUM COLUMN

By Rick Seabolt
This article appears on Page 6

      As discussed in a previous article, several reasons illustrate why courts should switch from a master calendar system for scheduling trials to the direct/independent calendar system. In a master calendar system, cases are handled pretrial by a law and motion judge (and perhaps a discovery commissioner) and on the date set for trial are assigned from the master cale...

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