The Texas Supreme Court approved new and amended state civil procedure rules, which took effect Jan. 1. Some of the changes concerning electronic filing and electronic service of documents will have a dramatic effect, not only on the way lawyers file and receive documents but also on deadlines. Read on for the new and amended rules that will most rock the procedural world.
Rule 4: computation of time. This rule change is the most overdue and also is the simplest. Under the revised Rule 4, when computing any period of time, such as a due date for responding to written discovery requests, an additional three days is no longer required when a lawyer makes service by “telephonic document transfer.” This is bad news for courier services, since attorneys no longer have to hand-deliver discovery requests that need answers in exactly 30 days.
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