An amendment to Rule 30(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (“FRCP”) that took effect on December 1, 2020 requires attorneys to meet-and-confer regarding the subject matters of an ...

Revisions to several key provisions of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect on December 1, 2015, and will have a significant impact on discovery procedure and practice in federal court.

FRCP? What's that? My point exactly. The vast majority of us in education, especially K-12, are woefully unprepared to deal with the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. These are the rules that went ...

Review the FRCP provisions governing discovery, including FRCP 26(f). Read all court-specific rules, standing orders, and forms on: discovery generally; and Rule 26(f) conferences. Review the assigned ...

Review the FRCP to understand the scope of permissible inquiry at a deposition. Under the FRCP, a deposing attorney may ask questions about any nonprivileged matter that is relevant to any party’s ...

Nearly four years have transpired since the Civil Rules Advisory Committee enacted changes to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(e) on December 1, 2015. In so doing, the committee had two principal ...

Under Rule 13(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), entitled "Compulsory Counterclaim," the defendant must plead a counterclaim that arises out of the same "transaction or occurrence" as ...

A major theme of the discovery-related 2015 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure was the reintroduction of proportionality as a core aspect of the permissible scope of discovery. As ...