{"id":69,"date":"2015-09-07T21:10:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T21:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inlawwetrust.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2015-09-07T21:10:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T21:10:26","slug":"where-are-the-top-trial-district-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themediabeast.com\/resources\/where-are-the-top-trial-district-courts\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Are the Top Trial District Courts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the front office of the federal judiciary, has released is annual data on the functioning of the courts, and others have done the legwork to figure out which of the 94 federal trial courts cut through its caseload most efficiently in the fiscal year that ended in September 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

Judge William G. Young<\/b><\/a><\/span>, who sits on the federal bench in Massachusetts, has ranked\u00a0U.S. district courts by hours on the bench, hours in trial, and number of civil and criminal trials. At the top of the\u00a02014 list<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Miami-based court was No. 1 in trial hours, No. 2 in hours on the bench, No. 15 in civil trials and No. 5 in criminal trials.<\/span><\/p>\n

The average judge, nationally, spent 364 hours on the bench and 182.7 hours in trial, and conducted four civil trials and 3.5 criminal trials in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chief Judge K. Michael Moore of Florida\u2019s Southern District said civil cases that go to trial in his court take about 16 months from start to finish, while cases that settle prior to trial resolve themselves, on average, in six months.<\/span><\/p>\n

In fiscal 2014,\u00a0the number of civil and criminal cases filed<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0per judge in\u00a0the Southern District, which also encompasses Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, was 695, compared to the national average of 533.<\/span><\/p>\n

Judge Moore, whose court\u00a0ranked\u00a0No. 2 overall in 2013, said his aim is to promote a culture in which lawyers know that \u201cyou\u2019re going to have to complete your task in a defined amount of time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHolding lawyers to a trial date is the biggest incentive for them to do the work that they need to do,\u201d he said. \u201cThe days of judges sitting back and being passive participants in the case-management system are gone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Middle District of Florida ranked No. 10 overall:\u00a0Bench hours (Rank # 31); Trial Hours (Rank # 8); Civil Trials (Rank # 11); Criminal trials (Rank # 13). <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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