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  • Table of Contents
    • Overview of Guide
    • 1: Consider Why You Want a Court ADR Program
    • 2: Gather Your Planning Team
    • 3: Explore the Legal and ADR Environment
    • 4: Articulate Your Program Goals
    • 5: Figure Out Your Budget and Funding
    • 6: Apply Standards for Court ADR
    • 7: Decide Which ADR Process to Use
    • 8: Design the Mechanics of Your Program
    • 9: Select and Manage Your Neutrals
    • 10: Write Your Court Rules
      • Guide to Exemplary Rules
    • 11: Design a System to Track Your Program
    • 12: Create Your Program Forms
      • Sample Forms
    • 13: Launch Your Program
    • 14: Manage Your Program
    • 15: Evaluate Your Program

Sample Forms

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Resolution Systems Institute, along with the Court Form Advisory Committee has identified good court forms that other courts might want to emulate. The forms, which are listed below, come from state and federal courts. They cover mediation, arbitration, early neutral evaluation, summary jury trials and other processes.  

The forms were first selected in 2007 and updated in 2019. (Three are no longer available and thus are the 2007 versions.) The forms are to be used as samples only; the forms may have changed since being selected for this site.

Form Selection

We examined more than a thousand forms to select the ones listed below. In making the decision as to which forms to include, we assumed that they would be used as models that could be adapted to a court's specific context. With this in mind, we selected forms that are written clearly and/or deal with particular issues better than others.

Form Summaries

To aid courts in adapting forms for their own use, we created a cover page for each form that discusses what is good about it and what could be improved.

Support and Advice

RSI is grateful to the JAMS Foundation for its generous support of the initial collection and summarization of these court ADR rules. RSI also extends our gratitude to the Advisory Committee for this project, whose advice we greatly value. Any errors are ours, however, and not those of the Foundation or the Committee.

The Samples

General

Neutral Applications

State Courts: Civil Cases - Mediation

Civil Case Agreements to Mediate

Civil Case Mediation Orders

Civil Case Mediation Reports

State Courts: Civil Cases - Arbitration

Arbitration Award Forms

Small Claims Forms

State Courts: Family Cases

Family Mediation Referral Forms

Family Agreement to Mediate Forms

Family Request to Mediate Forms

State Courts: Appellate

Appellate Mediation Orders

Appellate Mediation Reports

Federal Courts: District

District Court Forms

 

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