Chief Justice Warren E.Burger may have signalleda future trend in proposingthat more non-criminallawsuits be taken to ar-bitration because of anoverload of state andfederal court cases.Addressing theAmerican Bar Associationin Chicago. Burger saidthat from l940 to 1981. thenumber of cases filed an-nually in federal districtcourts jumped from 35 000to 180,000.Despite periodical in-creases in judgeships un-der omnibus legislation.Burger said it is clear that”the federal and statecourt systems are in-