Edited by John Tredennick
Now that we have some perspective on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, what impact has it had in the last six months? In this roundtable, experts in electronic discovery discuss their experiences with the new rules and what they anticipate for the future.
It has been a half year since Congress allowed the proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure take effect. In the months leading to December 1, 2006, we were flooded with announcements about the dire effects the new rules governing the treatment of electronic evidence would have and enough CLE programs to max anyone out for the next decade at least. Every magazine with any kind of legal bent had stories on the scope of the new rules and a number of books hit the stands.
Six months have passed and it is worth taking a look back to see what impact, if any, the new rules have had. To be sure, this may be a bit premature. It will take years before we know the full impact of the rule changes. But, with all the "sturm and drang" associated with electronic discovery today, it is worth an early report on what changes corporations and their counsel are seeing already. We will come back to this topic in another 6 months or so and check again on how things are going.
We have assembled a blue chip panel of practitioners and consultants, most of whom have decades of discovery experience and years working with electronic files. We have asked them to talk about what they are seeing on the front lines and where they think this is all heading.
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