ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ADR)

Contact the ADR Department at (616) 456-2381 or by email at adr@miwd.uscourts.gov

Local Civil Rule 16

Voluntary Facilitative Mediation (VFM)

• Program Description
• Mediator List

• VFM Application Form

  All mediator applications received between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008, which meet the qualifications of the VFM Program Description will be eligible for consideration for openings, if any, on the 2009 VFM panel.

• VFM Report

Case Evaluation

• Program Description
• Case Evaluator List
• Case Evaluator Application Form
• Case Evaluation - Notice of Hearing Form
• Case Evaluators' Report (Never to be e-filed in the case.  Provide all counsel with copies and mail original case evaluation award to the ADR Administrator)
• Administrative Order Re: Reconstitution of the Case Evaluator Panel (Dated July 5, 2005)

Summary Jury Trials

See LCivR 16.7.

"Summary Jury Trials in the Western District of Michigan," narrated by Judge Richard Alan Enslen is an educational program produced by the Federal Judicial Center. Copies of the DVD are now available for loan or viewing at the Clerk's Offices in Grand Rapids, Lansing and Kalamazoo.