On April 10 and 11, the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules met in Portland, Ore., to review proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and make key final decisions. Of particular significance was the work around Rule 37(e), also known as the “safe
A two-week-late response to requests for production, insufficient and incomplete produced documents and the possibility of a court-imposed e-discovery vendor compose this too-little-production-too-late case of Logtale, Ltd. v. IKOR, Inc. The 2011 lawsuit began when Logtale, Inc., a shareholder in IKOR, Inc., a pharmaceutical company
This past September, while the bearded ones were marching toward a World Series title, the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedure adopted a series of amendments as they relate to electronically stored information (ESI) and electronic discovery. These amendments will take effect on January 1, 2014.
The Civil Rules Advisory Committee released their proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in August. The Committee is seeking comment on their proposals through February 15, 2014, and we have summarized these potential changes below. Early Court Intervention The Committee has found
The Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure recently recommended several important changes to the FRCP. There is some debate about the effectiveness of the measures recommended, but very little disagreement about the fact that this would be a large change. Perhaps the
Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) new final rules for electronic discovery go into effect with the goal of streamlining e-discovery and making the investigative process more efficient and straightforward; many of these changes reflect similar recent revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil
On July 5, Florida adopted a specific set of electronic data discovery rules for its state courts based upon the 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, but updated to be more specific and in line with the realities of modern e-discovery. These
The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules met late this March in Ann Arbor to discuss amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Included on the agenda was the report of the Discovery Subcommittee, which has been pondering the issue of sanctions and preservation since
Last week, it was very busy here at the Bllawg. Check out this round up to make sure you didn’t miss any new content! Monday: LLM was announced as an early sponsor of the 2012 Master’s Conference, to take place in Washington, D.C. this October.
As of February 2012, the Department of Justice (in conjunction with the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and the Joint Working Group on Electronic Technology in the Criminal Justice System) has officially released a set of best practices for ESI discovery in federal criminal
The most recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which went into effect in December 2010, contained plenty of material relevant to e-discovery. However, rules concerning the preservation and spoliation of ESI were notably absent, which meant that it was up to the