On Dec. 13, the U.S. Congress will hear testimony about prospective e-discovery-related additions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure -- the first such hearing since the rules were last updated in 2006.
The hearing, entitled "The Costs and Burdens of Civil Discovery," was originally scheduled for Nov. 16. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, will lead the hearing, which is intended to update the House on recent developments among FRCP committees of the Federal Judiciary and on witnesses' individual senses of which rules work, which do not, and which need modification.
Scheduled witnesses include William Hubbard, assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and Rebecca Love Kourlis, executive director of the University of Denver's Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, both of whom spoke this week with Law Technology News.
Hubbard and Love Kourlis both agreed that rule changes are necessary, as the volume of electronically stored information increases faster than lawyers and the e-discovery software industry can keep up.
However, "I don't know what kind of questions I'm going to be asked, to tell you the truth," Hubbard said. "I don't think it's something that has attracted a lot of attention from Congress in the past."
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Source: law.com
By: Evan Koblentz
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