Legal Reform and Litigation Management

Policy Priorities for 2008

• Enact a comprehensive and rational solution to the problem of mass tort medical screenings.
• Build the case for comprehensive reform of how discovery is conducted in civil litigation. 
• Defend against trial lawyer-inspired attempts to expand liability for America's business community, including the criminalization of product liability law as well as attempts to limit the availability of federal preemption.
• Work to ensure that protective orders remain available in the context of civil litigation.
• Build support for changes to the securities litigation system to increase America's global competitiveness.
• Fight to preserve the availability of arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.
• Continue educating the public about important state judicial and attorneys general races.
• Support legal reform in key problem states and jurisdictions.