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In The Headlines

Supreme Court debates complex litigation rules
 
 April 1, 2009
 
Jennifer A. "Jenn" Mansfield- Jacksonville

Litigation Partner Jennifer Mansfield was quoted in "Supreme Court debates complex litigation rules" in the Florida Bar News. The article discusses the arguments made to the Supreme Court by the Task Force on the Management of Cases Involving Complex Litigation regarding rules changes to govern complex cases.

The proposals were unanimously opposed by the Bar's Rules of Civil Procedure Committees. Mansfield, who is chair of the subcommittee stated, "It creates a two-part system where one part allows practitioners to run cases; the other part demands judges run it. You wind up having two systems that simultaneously and potentially [are] in conflict with each other." She added that there was no evidence of a problem to solve in the proposal, saying, "we cannot be assured that this rule actually addresses those problems."

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