A little more than a year after their adoption, changes to federal rules for civil litigation have provided companies some answers on how to navigate discovery in the electronic age, but they have raised just as many questions.
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended on Dec. 1, 2006, aiming to help companies and courts deal with the complicated issues surrounding “e-discovery” in civil litigation. The amendments went right down to basic issues such as what electronic data actually is, and parties’ responsibility to search for it.
