Research findings can provide guidelines for caseload scheduling and pretrial orders, discovery and motion practices, efficient jury utilization, and the judge's role in alternative dispute resolution, and the assignment of responsibilities to magistrates. Other areas of research with practical implications include studies of procedures for the observation of offenders, the management of protracted trials, the deterrence of abusive litigation, and the functions of the circuit court executive. Areas deserving of future research include the effect of the English rule for shifting responsibility for attorneys' fees to unsuccessful litigants, the effects of witness-victim legislation on the criminal justice system, the implications of the expansive growth of Federal criminal jurisdiction, and public and media reactions to the courts. While judges and courts are prime beneficiaries of such research, political scientists, economists, public officials, lawyers, and the public also benefit. 2 cases and 56 references.