What is the history and likely future of caseflow management?
Even as caseflow management was maturing in the 1990s, the evolution of both court improvement and public expectations for the judiciary have created changing circumstances that courts have met by accommodating the needs of litigants not represented by counsel, creating family courts and a one-judge/one-family philosophy, and developing community courts, drug courts, and other problem-solving courts. One commentator has observed that caseflow management can no longer focus solely on early dispositions, but must also be applied in cases where a court has an ongoing role after an initial entry of judgment. Moreover, caseflow management in the future will have to be more person oriented instead of being case oriented. This will call not only for ongoing court leadership and communication in collaboration with a wider range of stakeholders in the court process, but also for a richer set of expectations and goals, with the means to measure performance in light of them. With regard to specif
