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• "The Bench and the Bar"(PDF, opens in new tab)

  By Willard Irving Brigham. Chapter LXIV of History of the City of Grand Rapids, by Albert Baxter (1891).

• History of the Grand Rapids Bar Association: February 1902 to February 1977(PDF, opens in new tab) .

  By Marjorie C. Wilcox.

• Judging in West Michigan: Celebrating the Community Impact of Effective Judges and Courts.

  Edited by Nelson P. Miller, Kara Zech Thelen, Christopher G. Hastings, & Devin Schindler. Vandeplas Publishing (2011).

• A Lincoln Legacy: The History of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan(opens in new tab)

  David Gardner Chardavoyne with Hugh W. Brenneman Jr. Wayne State University Press (2020).

• Memorial: A Celebration of the Life of the Honorable Wendell A. Miles, United States District Judge, 1916–2013

  733 F.3d XXVII–LIV (2013).

• United States Magistrates in the Federal Courts (Chapter 6)

  By Christopher E. Smith. Praeger (1990).

History of ADR Development in the Western District of Michigan

• Settlement Strategies for Federal Judges(PDF, opens in new tab)

  By D. Marie Provine. Federal Judicial Center (1986) – Chapter IV: Alternative Methods for Promoting Settlements.

• "Blueprint for a Summary Jury Trial"(PDF, opens in new tab)

  By Hugh W. Brenneman Jr. and Edward Wesoloski. 65 Mich. B.J. 888 (Sept. 1986).

• Court-Annexed Arbitration in Ten District Courts(PDF, opens in new tab)

  By B. Meierhoefer (includes Western District of Michigan pilot district). Federal Judicial Center (1990).

• "Testimony of Richard A. Enslen, U.S. District Judge, Western District of Michigan, Before the Senate Judiciary Committee on S.2027"(PDF, opens in new tab)

  Prepared statement concerning Differentiated Case Management. Federal Judicial Center (1990).

• Report of the Advisory Group for the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan Appointed Under the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990(PDF, opens in new tab)

  Federal Judicial Center (Nov. 22, 1991).

• Differentiated Case Management Plan of the Western District of Michigan Pursuant to the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990(PDF, opens in new tab)

  Federal Judicial Center (Dec. 18, 1991).

• "Differentiated Case Management Can Help Make ADR More Than an 'Intermediate Irritating Event'"(PDF, opens in new tab)

  By David W. McKeague. FJC Directions, No. 7, Dec. 1994, pp. 12-13.

• Report to the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management: A Study of the Five Demonstration Programs Established Under the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990(PDF, opens in new tab)

  Includes Western District of Michigan. Federal Judicial Center (Jan. 24, 1997).