Within family law pre trial screening/settlement makes a lot of sense, not to talk about the competence of family lawyers ( e.g. so called best interest of the client, aka keep dragging the case on etc.). I see on a daily basis how much the courts are clogged with this kind of stuff...costing the tax payer lots, the clients lots...and the lawyers are the winners...subsidized by Joe and Jill.
Review of the court system is highly recommended, but not only done by the legal profession, the industry has a lot at stake....I guess that is why they only keep track of limited statistics...and if so, most of them are not correct....

As for criminal law I do not much about, but imagine just freeing up so much capacity if family law would be done in a more fair and efficient way.....then there would also be sufficient legal counsels freed up to change their careers in criminal law...