Clermont on Litigation Realities

While not specific to mass torts, Kevin Clermont has posted his latest empirical work, Litigation Realities Redux, which is broadly applicable to the litigation process.

Here's the abstract:

Both summarizing recent empirical work and presenting new observations on each of the six phases of a civil lawsuit (forum, pretrial, settlement, trial, judgment, and appeal), the author stresses the needs for and benefits from understanding and using empirical methods in the study of the adjudicatory system's operation.

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