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« In The NewsHausfeld Lawyers Author Major Law Review Article Opposing Efforts to Revise Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Working with colleagues from Milberg LLP, Hausfeld lawyers William Butterfield, Megan Jones, Hilary Scherrer, Ralph Bunche, Melinda Coolidge and Sathya Gosselin have completed work on a law review article entitled “E-Discovery Today: The Fault Lies Not In Our Rules . . .”, 4 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 4 (2011), available at: http://www.fclr.org/fclr/articles/html/2010/hausfeld.pdf
The article was led by Hausfeld partner William Butterfield and Milberg partner Ariana Tadler, who were invited by the Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, and the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules to participate at the 2010 Duke Conference on Civil Litigation. The purpose of the Duke Conference was to explore suggested changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Many of the proposed changes to the Rules were based on the impact of electronic discovery, but this article posits that the Rules are sufficiently flexible to address e-discovery costs and issues. Earlier drafts of the article have received critical acclaim from members of the judiciary, academia and practitioners, and the discussion undertaken in the article will be an important component in the continuing debate about revisions to the FRCP.
