About
Rabiej Litigation Law Center
(pronounced “rah-bee-ay”)
2025 Annual Report on Center Activities
The Rabiej Litigation Law Center is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. The Center’s mission is to bring the bench and bar together to address timely litigation issues arising in ediscovery matters, class actions, and mass-tort MDLs. The Center was incorporated on June 6, 2022.
The Center offers one of the very few forums where leading plaintiff and defense attorneys and other legal experts can engage in robust, but civilized, discussions about contentious litigation problems and issues. The participation of prominent judges at the Center’s events assures good decorum and serious analyses. The Center’s “summits” are primarily intended to provide leaders of the bench and bar an opportunity to improve the administration of justice by developing consensus solutions to persistent litigation problems.
The Center continues programs that were started and run by its founder and president, John Rabiej, at Duke (2012-2019) and George Washington (2020-2021) Law Schools, which build on his experience opening and running the office that staffed the six Judicial Conference Rules Committees (1990-2010) as well as managing The Sedona Conference (2011).
The Center schedules three annual bench-bar leadership summits at law schools around the country. Ten to twenty federal judges and 30 defense and plaintiff practitioners attend the summits. At the summits, we do not ask lawyers to abandon their adversarial positions and beliefs, but we do ask them to try to understand the other side’s concerns and remain open to considering compromises, which the Center can later develop into best practices and add them to its Best Practices Compendiums.
Many plaintiff and defense practitioners and judges who participate in the summits are nationally recognized as the best and most influential and have a strong interest in improving the administration of justice. The summits and best-practices drafting projects offer lawyers a unique opportunity to meet and work with the leaders of the bench.
Please send any inquiries, comments, or suggestions to Contact@RabiejCenter.org.