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Measuring The Duration Of Judicial And Administrative Proceedings, David S. Clark, John Henry Merryman
Measuring The Duration Of Judicial And Administrative Proceedings, David S. Clark, John Henry Merryman
Michigan Law Review
A method of estimating the probable duration of litigation is useful for a variety of purposes. First, the probable duration of a case may, to some extent, determine strategy in litigation since prolonged litigation is often perceived as an appreciable cost to one party and as a benefit to the other. An estimate of the duration of a criminal case, for example, probably influences the respective postures of a defendant and a prosecutor in plea bargaining. Similarly, civil litigants may be able to use an estimate of the probable duration of litigation, together with other factors, in deciding whether to …
Measuring The Duration Of Judicial And Administrative Proceedings: A Comment, David P. Doane
Measuring The Duration Of Judicial And Administrative Proceedings: A Comment, David P. Doane
Michigan Law Review
Professors Clark and Merryman propose a useful indirect measure of the duration of litigation whose primary virtue is its ease of computation from published court data. As the authors note, such a measure of duration may be useful to persons involved in judicial administration and to attorneys formulating strategy in litigation, and the legal community should find informative their illustration of the concept with Italian court data. Concluding on a pragmatic note, Professors Clark and Merryman appear to suggest that attorneys, clients, judges, court administrators, and social scientists must ultimately assess the utility of their concept. In making this assessment, …