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Be prepared, litigators, amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are coming on December 1, 2015. These changes represent the Advisory Committee’s attempt to fulfill Rule 1’s goal of “just, speedy, and inexpensive” resolution of cases. Judging by the amendments, the Committee felt that civil litigation takes too long and lacks a collaborative esprit de corps . Additionally, the new Rules emphasize the importance of “proportionality” in discovery and reflect an adaptation to the increasing prevalence of Electronically Stored Information (“ESI”) in civil litigation.
Read the complete article at The New Rules: Making Lawsuits Speedier and Less Expensive