Working Papers

May 31, 2004

Working Papers

How We Lost Our Way: The Road To Civil Justice Reform

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By James M. Wootton, a partner with the law firm Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, LLP in its Washington, D.C. office. Foreword byThomas A. Gottschalk, Executive Vice President & General Counsel of General Motors Corporation.

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