Federal Complex Litigation: Home

Definitions vary, but it usually tends to involve the extensive production of documents, collection of data and deposition of a significant number of individuals.

Black's Law Dictionary (9th ed.) defines it as "[L]itigation involving serveral parties who are separately represented, and usu[ally] involving multifarious factual and legal issues."

Some litigation can easily be called "complex." Examples include the asbestos litigation, the AT&T antitrust litigation, and Brown v. Board of Education.

Classes of potentially complex litigation include:

• Class Actions and other multi-party litigation
  
• Multiple or mulidistrict litigation
  
• Antitrust cases
  
• Consumer protection cases
  
• Products liability cases
  
• Toxic torts cases
  
• Civil rights cases
  
• Securities cases
  
• Employment cases
  
• Any other cases involving an unusual multiplicity or complexity of factual issues
  

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