Efficiently Moving Cases: The Essential Role of Court-Appointed Neutrals

Our courts are often overwhelmed with a backlog of cases and overburdened. Their enormous workload results in delays in decision-making needed to resolve cases. Finding ways to keep cases moving is important to judges, litigants and their lawyers. One invaluable tool at the disposal of the courts is court-appointed neutrals, also known as special masters or referees, who are appointed to address pretrial and post-trial matters that cannot be effectively and timely addressed by the court.

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