1. Settlement Conference Program Statistics for Fiscal Year 2013-14
Virginia Judicial
Settlement Conference Program
Statistics for Fiscal Year
Retired Circuit Court Judges
Bringing Calm to the Storm
Bringing Resolution to Conflict
Virginia Judicial
Settlement Conference Program
Statistics for Fiscal Year

2. Referred Cases 1,224 cases were referred to settlement conference.
1,119 conferences were paid for in Fiscal Year
771 cases have been captured and are graphically displayed on the following charts.
438 cases are pending receipt of reports or actual conference.
15 cases were cancelled before reaching conference.

3. Categories of Case Types

4. Agreement Rate
65.5% of referred cases successfully reached an agreement either during or soon after the conference
Note: This does NOT
include pending cases

5. The average length of a conference is 2.7 hours.
Length of Conferences
The average length of a conference is 2.7 hours.

6. Referring Circuit Courts
Virginia Beach has referred 16.8% of the cases during Fiscal Year
67.2% of all FY13-14 cases were referred by 10 courts in the Tidewater Area (Hampton, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, James City/Williamsburg, Norfolk, Newport News, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, York and Chesapeake).
32.8% of the cases in FY13-14 were referred by 76 other courts across Virginia.
A total of 86 circuit courts referred cases during the fiscal year.

7. Number of Cases Referred By Top 10 Courts