ALTHOUGH THE START DATE of the new electronic discovery procedural rules is still three months away, lawyers who haven’t sat down with clients to devise a plan may be losing a race against time.
The changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, effective on Dec. 1, are intended to catch up with communications technology, which has turned matters of once-routine litigation into discovery nightmares as parties and courts grapple with electronic databases, e-mail, backup tapes and much more.
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