In practice, the most significant change in modern litigation has been the dramatic increase in electronic discovery costs. As the amount of electronically stored information has skyrocketed over the past two decades, the burden on parties (chiefly businesses) to retain, review, and produce that information in litigation has exponentially increased as well.
Recognizing that reality, the federal Judicial Conference’s Advisory Committee on Civil Rules has recently issued a preliminary draft of proposed amendments to the Federal Rules (pdf) that, if adopted, would take some modest steps towards ensuring greater balance in the discovery process.
A number of interested parties will
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