Courts & Litigation -- Rules, Forms, Directories

12/01/2011 US District Court

Click the "Go to Website" link below to download the handbook, which is intended to provide the public and the bar with information needed to conduct business with the United States District Read More

01/01/2011 Supreme Judicial Court Advisory Committee

The Massachusetts Guide to Evidence is prepared by the Supreme Judicial Court Advisory Committee on Massachusetts Evidence Law.  According to the Guide's introduction, it "organizes and Read More

06/30/2010 Massachusetts Trial Court

The Massachusetts Trial Court has released this Guide, prepared by the Court Personnel Working Group of the Supreme Judicial Court Steering Committee on Self-Represented Litigant, to provide court per Read More

11/30/2009 Court of Appeals -- First Circuit

Effective October 13, 2009, attorneys and non-incarcerated pro se parties proceeding without counsel may file documents electronically using the court's electronic filing system. Read More

03/16/2011 MLRI

New Small Claims Court Rules went into effect in October 2009.  According to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, these "amendments address many of the issues identified by the Working Read More

01/27/2009 Superior Court

From the Massachusetts Trial Court Library blog -- information about and links to amended Superior Court Rule 9A Read More

List of links to the federal courts, including the First Ciruit Court of Appeals, and the federal District Courts within the First Circuit. Read More

11/10/2009 Deford, Smith, Diller, Perkins (Clearinghouse Review)

Each year, Clearinghouse Review publishes a review of Supreme Court decisions concerning access to the federal courts.  These reviews are avialable on the Clearinghouse Review website.  Read More

11/18/2008

A website with resources about electronic discovery, including state cases and rules. Read More

01/20/2011 MLRI

Federal procedures, codes and court rules. Federal Rules of Evidence Federal Rules of Civil Procedure U.S. Read More