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An effective legal system is critical to advancing free enterprise.

The U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) is a campaign of the nation’s business community to promote legal reform trends that focus on mitigating liability risks through legislative, political, judicial and educational initiatives in the federal, state and international arenas.

America deserves a legal reform system that is simpler, fairer, and faster for everyone.

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Fairer, Faster, Better:
An Empirical Assessment
of Employment Arbitration

Cause for Action: An ILR Podcast |
Kim and Schwartz on the topic of Arbitration

Curbing the Global Spread
of U.S.-Style Litigation

MDL Imbalance:
Why Defendants Need
Timely Access To
Interlocutory Review

State Lawsuit Climate Report

ILR’s Ranking the States report explores how reasonable and balanced the states’ tort liability systems are perceived to be by U.S. businesses.

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Chamber GC Says Sen. Warren's Proposal Would "Upend Hundreds of Years of U.S. Legal Tradition"

By Harold H. Kim In a new op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Chamber of Commerce General Counsel John Wood explains why a simple-sounding proposal from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, which makes company executives criminally liable for actions that now are considered basic negligence, would “upend hundreds of years of U.S. legal tradition and wreak havoc in

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If It's Broke, Fix It: Address the MDL Imbalance

Supporters of legal reform know that plaintiffs’ lawyers and their allies are constantly searching for ways to turn the American legal system to their advantage. Class actions are a go-to example: a seemingly neutral mechanism that plaintiffs’ lawyers have learned to exploit, and that regularly produces unfair outcomes for defendants. Unfortunately, the same can now be said for multi-district litigation, or MDLs. This

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New Video Offers Solutions For TCPA Reform

Enacted in 1991, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) was designed to keep Americans from those pesky telemarketing calls at the most inconvenient times by restricting the use of autodialers and prerecorded messages. Fast forward to today, when new technology grows old at the blink of an eye and almost anything can be considered an autodialer. Yet that same law from 1991 still regulates the space and keeps generating thousands of

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U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform | October 24, 2018

Keynote Luncheon:  Perspectives from the World’s First Digital Human

Rachel, the World’s First Digital Human and Richard Darden, Distinguished Engineer
Watson Implementations Public Sector Global Delivery, IBM

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