Civil Litigation in the United States, 1977-1979 Kritzer, Herbert M. Trubek, David M. Felstiner, William L.F. Grossman, Joel B. Sarat, Austin arrests attorneys civil law court cases court system criminal justice system disposition (legal) legal systems plea negotiations ICPSR.XII NACJD.IV The Civil Litigation Research Project, based at the University of Wisconsin Law School, was organized in 1979 to develop a large database on dispute processing and litigation and to collect information on the costs of civil litigation. Data were gathered on topics such as negotiation proceedings, relationship between lawyer and client, and organizations' influence on the outcome of a dispute. 1994-02-18 survey data 7994 10.3886/ICPSR07994.v3 court records, alternative dispute processing institution records, and personal interviews United States 1977--1979 ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/).