1. Settlement Conference Program Statistics for Fiscal Year 2016-17
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 1,387 cases were referred to settlement conference.
1,168 conferences were paid for in Fiscal Year
856 cases have been captured and are graphically displayed on the following charts.
528 cases are pending receipt of reports or actual conference.
3 cases were cancelled before reaching conference.

3. Categories of Case Types

4. Agreement Rate
70.7 % 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 3.4 hours.
Length of Conferences
The average length of a conference is 3.4 hours.

6. Referring Circuit Courts
Newport News has referred 6.5% of the cases during Fiscal Year
31.4% of all FY16-17 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).
68.6% of the cases in FY16-17 were referred by 71 other courts across Virginia.
A total of 81 circuit courts referred cases during the fiscal year.

7. Number of Cases Referred By Top 10 Courts