Streamlining litigation and reducing expense are two of the goals of an efficient legal system. To that end, the Rules Committee of the Superior Court should borrow from New York and adopt an evidentiary rule that documents produced and created by a party as a result of a discovery request are presumed to be authentic. This would reduce the need to waste time and money "laying a foundation" for, say, business records when the materials are produced during discovery.

Authentication is a foundational requirement under Article IX of Connecticut's Code of Evidence. But authentication typically requires evidence. New York adopted a rule in 2019 that "[m]aterial produced by a party in response to a [discovery] demand for material authored or otherwise created by such party shall be presumed authentic when offered into evidence by an adverse party." N.Y. Civil Practice Law and Rules § 4540-a. Its sensible basis is that the producing party likely knows whether a document is authentic. Any additional requirements would waste either the court's time, the parties' resources, or both.