On December 1, 2015, a number of key amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect. The proposed amendments were reviewed, approved and submitted to Congress, by the U.S. Supreme Court, on April 29, 2015. The amendments are focused on reducing litigation cost by expediting both the discovery process and the litigation process itself. The amendments, which arguably entail the most significant alterations to the discovery rules in more than two decades, will “govern in all proceedings in civil cases thereafter commenced and, insofar as just and practicable, all proceedings then pending.” The practical effect of these amendments will require at least some change to three important aspects of discovery: speed, specificity/scope, and handling and assessing claims of lost electronically store information.
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