This is an advanced civil procedure class for those interested in large scale litigation, with an emphasis on practical application and stand-up courtroom 3-minute "mini- oral arguments" on many of the key cases. The course will focus on the problems of large multi-party and multi-forum civil cases and how courts and litigants deal with them. Coverage will include the practical steps litigators need to take as well as decision points at the outset of litigation, joinder devices, especially (but not only) class actions; federal multi-district transfer and consolidation; litigation over the appropriate federal or state forum, coordination among counsel in multi-party cases, ethical issues, big-case discovery problems; ad hoc federal-state litigation coordination; judicial case management techniques and issues; and ways of accelerating or terminating potentially or actually protracted cases, including settlement, alternative dispute resolution, representative trials, mini-trials and claims processing facilities.

Sections/Instructors

David W. Ichel
Complex Civil Litigation 315.01
Spring 2013
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David W. Ichel
Complex Civil Litigation 315.01
Spring 2012
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David W. Ichel
Complex Civil Litigation 315.01
Spring 2011
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Ogden N. Lewis
Complex Civil Litigation 315.01
Spring 2010
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Ogden N. Lewis
Complex Civil Litigation 315.01
Spring 2009
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Thomas D. Rowe, Jr.
Complex Civil Litigation 315.01
Fall 2007
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Complex Civil Litigation 315.01
Spring 2007

Complex Civil Litigation 315.01
Spring 2006

Thomas D. Rowe, Jr.
Complex Civil Litigation 315.01
Spring 2004