Cynthia Courtney Peter Coons

March 27, 2014 | Inside Counsel

Some, and maybe all, of these proposed Rules are likely to be adopted, and practitioners should be thinking now about what changes the new Rules will bring about.

By Cynthia Courtney, Peter Coons

6 minute read

March 13, 2014 | Inside Counsel

A common lament is that individuals, who are often innocent people trying to achieve redress through civil rights and employment claims, have too high a burden to demonstrate that the producing party spoliated evidence.

By Cynthia Courtney, Peter Coons

12 minute read

February 27, 2014 | Inside Counsel

At the Duke Conference, cooperation had center stage. The Duke Conference attendees lamented that excessively adversarial behavior drives up the costs of litigation.

By Cynthia Courtney, Peter Coons

5 minute read

February 13, 2014 | Inside Counsel

Several proposed amendments seek to promote proportionality in discovery by directly amending the scope of discovery, promoting clearer responses to Rule 34 requests for production, and explicitly recognizing the authority to allocate expenses in discovery.

By Cynthia Courtney, Peter Coons

11 minute read

January 30, 2014 | Inside Counsel

Delay itself undermines the goals of Rule 1. Accordingly, certain proposed changes merely shorten time frames already existing in the Rules.

By Cynthia Courtney, Peter Coons

6 minute read