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What Is The Settlement Rate And Why Should We Care?, Theodore Eisenberg, Charlotte Lanvers
What Is The Settlement Rate And Why Should We Care?, Theodore Eisenberg, Charlotte Lanvers
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
After establishing the importance of knowledge of settlement rates, this article first shows that different research questions can yield different settlement rates. Using data gathered from about 3,300 federal cases in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (EDPA) and the Northern District of Georgia (NDGA), differing measures of settlement emerge depending on whether one is interested in (1) settlement as a proxy for plaintiffs’ litigation success, or (2) settlement as a measure of litigated disputes resolved without final adjudication. Using settlement as a proxy for plaintiff success, we estimate the aggregate settlement rate across case categories in the two districts to …
Litigation Realities, Kevin M. Clermont, Theodore Eisenberg
Litigation Realities, Kevin M. Clermont, Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
After 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 authors draw a series of lessons for understanding and using empirical methods in the study of the legal system's operation. In so doing, they generate implications for current and projected policy debates concerning litigation, while identifying areas that demand further empirical work.