Long-awaited changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure go into effect
on December 1st. This program will brief you on them, focusing on the
reworded Rule 26 relevance standard, increased emphasis on proportionality in
discovery and early case management, and substantial retooling of the sanctions
provisions vis-à-vis failure to preserve electronically stored information. The
impact of the federal courts’ experience with e-discovery since the last
significant revision of the FRCP, in 2006, will be a recurring theme.