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For release: Immediately
June 28, 2012
Contact: Mark Mahoney
Associate Director, Media Services
mmahoney@nysba.org
518-487-5532
STATE BAR RECOMMENDS NEW RULES AND GUIDELINES TO HELP
REDUCE COSTS AND DELAYS IN FEDERAL LITIGATION
Focus is on making discovery more
efficient
Responding to burgeoning costs and delays in federal litigation
–largely attributed to expanded discovery –the New York
State Bar Association is recommending rule changes and new guidelines
intended to ease the burden on the federal court system as well as on
litigants.
The recommendations are contained in the “Report of the Special
Committee on Discovery and Case Management in Federal Litigation,”
which was approved by the Association’s House of Delegates at its
June 23 meeting in Cooperstown.
“The increasing use of technologies – including email,
text messaging, social media and the cloud –have complicated the
discovery process, causing long delays and exorbitant costs in federal
litigation. This report presents sensible and practical solutions to
this growing crisis,” said New York State Bar Association
President Seymour W. James, Jr. (The Legal Aid Society of New York).
“The State Bar is grateful to the Special Committee on Discovery
and Case Management and its chair, Samuel F. Abernethy, for undertaking
this critical project.”
To read the entire press release, click here.
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