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E-Discovery Update: MCS attorney Jennifer M. Larson Outlines Proposed Amendments to Federal Rules

The July edition of the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers’ publication, The Dicta, features an analysis by McGuire, Craddock & Strother’s Jennifer M. Larson outlining proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to address the challenges presented by modern discovery. Given how pervasive e-discovery has become, these amendments have the potential to affect litigators everywhere.

Ms. Larson notes that the amendments proposed by the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure must now be approved by the Judicial Conference and the U.S. Supreme Court. Once approved by those bodies, Congress will have seven months to consider the proposed amendments, which would become effective December 1, 2015.

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