An expert Q&A on new Rule 16.1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), effective December 1, 2025, including how Rule 16.1 may impact multidistrict litigation (MDL) practice and case ...

An amendment to Rule 30(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (“FRCP”) that took effect on December 1, 2020 requires attorneys to meet-and-confer regarding the subject matters of an ...

FRCP? What's that? My point exactly. The vast majority of us in education, especially K-12, are woefully unprepared to deal with the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. These are the rules that went ...

Revisions to several key provisions of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect on December 1, 2015, and will have a significant impact on discovery procedure and practice in federal court.

Review the FRCP provisions governing discovery, including FRCP 26(f). Read all court-specific rules, standing orders, and forms on: discovery generally; and Rule 26(f) conferences. Review the assigned ...

Nearly four years have transpired since the Civil Rules Advisory Committee enacted changes to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(e) on December 1, 2015. In so doing, the committee had two principal ...

Under Rule 13(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), entitled "Compulsory Counterclaim," the defendant must plead a counterclaim that arises out of the same "transaction or occurrence" as ...

In Wudi Industrial (Shanghai) Co Ltd v Wong (22-1495; -1662; 4th Cir; 5 June 2023), the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated and remanded a district court ruling, finding that the lower ...