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Conclusion: Your First Five Questions (times four): A Practical Guide to the Amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure – Are you Ready?

Photo of Gary LevinPhoto of Robert J. TuckerPhoto of James A. ShererPhoto of Jonathan A. FormanBy Karin Scholz Jenson, Gary Levin, Robert J. Tucker, James A. Sherer and Jonathan A. Forman on Posted in E-Discovery Advocacy and Management, E-Discovery Rules, Your First Five Questions
The current amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure—and, in particular, those that address the practice of civil discovery—are the product of five years of development, debate, and, of course, dialogue. Now that the Rules are set to be implemented on December 1, 2015 – and they apply to pending cases where “just and practicable” — … Continue Reading

Day 4: Your First Five Questions (times four): A Practical Guide to the Amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure – Rule 34 Objections

Photo of Gary LevinPhoto of Robert J. TuckerPhoto of James A. ShererPhoto of Jonathan A. FormanBy Karin Scholz Jenson, Gary Levin, Robert J. Tucker, James A. Sherer and Jonathan A. Forman on Posted in E-Discovery Advocacy and Management, E-Discovery Rules, Your First Five Questions
The current amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure—and, in particular, those that address the practice of civil discovery—are the product of five years of development, debate, and, of course, dialogue. Now that the Rules are set to be implemented on December 1, 2015 – and they apply to pending cases where “just and practicable” — … Continue Reading

Day 3: Your First Five Questions (times four): A Practical Guide to the Amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure – Preservation

Photo of Gary LevinPhoto of Robert J. TuckerPhoto of James A. ShererPhoto of Jonathan A. FormanBy Karin Scholz Jenson, Gary Levin, Robert J. Tucker, James A. Sherer and Jonathan A. Forman on Posted in E-Discovery Advocacy and Management, E-Discovery Rules, Preservation, Your First Five Questions
The current amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure—and, in particular, those that address the practice of civil discovery—are the product of five years of development, debate, and, of course, dialogue. Now that the Rules are set to be implemented on December 1, 2015 – and they apply to pending cases where “just and practicable” — … Continue Reading

Day 2: Your First Five Questions (times four): A Practical Guide to the Amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure – Early Case Assessment

Photo of Gary LevinPhoto of Robert J. TuckerPhoto of James A. ShererPhoto of Jonathan A. FormanBy Karin Scholz Jenson, Gary Levin, Robert J. Tucker, James A. Sherer and Jonathan A. Forman on Posted in E-Discovery Advocacy and Management, E-Discovery Rules, Your First Five Questions
The current amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure—and, in particular, those that address the practice of civil discovery—are the product of five years of development, debate, and, of course, dialogue. Now that the Rules are set to be implemented on December 1, 2015 – and they apply to pending cases where “just and practicable” — … Continue Reading

Day 1: Your First Five Questions (times four): A Practical Guide to the Amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure – Proportionality

Photo of Gary LevinPhoto of Robert J. TuckerPhoto of James A. ShererPhoto of Jonathan A. FormanBy Karin Scholz Jenson, Gary Levin, Robert J. Tucker, James A. Sherer and Jonathan A. Forman on Posted in E-Discovery Advocacy and Management, E-Discovery Rules, Your First Five Questions
The current amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure—and, in particular, those that address the practice of civil discovery—are the product of five years of development, debate, and, of course, dialogue. Now that the Rules are set to be implemented on December 1, 2015 – and they apply to pending cases where “just and practicable” — … Continue Reading

What? The Rules Committee Hearings Don’t Have A Hashtag?

Photo of James A. ShererPhoto of Jonathan A. FormanBy Karin Scholz Jenson, James A. Sherer and Jonathan A. Forman on Posted in E-Discovery Advocacy and Management, E-Discovery Vendor, Information Governance, LegalTech, Uncategorized
This post is a joint submission with BakerHostetler Data Privacy Monitor blog. On a snowy Sixth Avenue this week, thousands of people packed the New York Hilton Midtown for the sensory overload that is LegalTech New York (#LTNY), the annual E-Discovery, privacy, and information governance bash. And today, just hours after the massive conference closed, … Continue Reading

Your Request for Spoliation Sanctions Could Get You Sanctioned

Photo of Jonathan A. FormanBy Jonathan A. Forman on Posted in E-Discovery Rules, Spoliation
We like our litigation to be decided on the merits. Sanctions motions based on unsupported claims of spoliation create expensive sideshows that distract from the merits. And sometimes — although perhaps not frequently enough — baseless and abusive motions are punished. Recently, in Smith v. Westchester County Dept. of Corrections, No. 07-CIV-1803 (SDNY), Judge Shira A. Scheindlin … Continue Reading
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