In 2009, I had a summer intern and together we spent the entire summer compiling an outline summarizing the contents of local rules concerning the use of mediation and other ADR processes in bankruptcy courts throughout the nation (I did some other stuff too like having lunch in the park instead of at my desk). This was long a project on the bucket list of the former ADR Committee of the American Bankruptcy Institute. My favorite part was calling it a Compendium. It was updated in mid-2013, catching the revisions of the Delaware rule that had just come out, but it hasn’t been updated since then. Don Swanson recently sent out a post on the Committee Listserv about it and his own similar efforts. That post asked, and I will reiterate it here, for people to let us know if the summary of rules in the Compendium pertaining to their district remains accurate. We have suggested that the Mediation Committee take on a new update as a project.
Click here to read the full compendium.